All the President's fools

Justin Theroux Woody Harrelson play the bungling buddies behind the Watergate scandal in comedy caper White House Plumbers

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White House Plumbers Tuesday, 9pm, Sky Atlantic (box set, Sky Box Sets & NOW)

The Watergate scandal has been the subject of countless films and documentaries over the decades, most famously the Oscar-winning 1976 movie All the President's Men, starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford.

The story of the journalists who uncovered Watergate and brought down President Richard Nixon is well known, but the tales of the men who carried out the crime have never been told - until now.

Sky Atlantic's five-part satire White House Plumbers is set in the months leading up to the notorious 1972 burglaries at the Democratic campaign headquarters in Washington DC's Watergate complex, and follows ex-CIA officer E. Howard Hunt and exFBI agent G. Gordon Liddy - the two political operatives responsible for organising the break-in.