Hot Metal

- Season 2

(1988)

Millionnaire Twiggy Rathbone is seeking a new figurehead to control his look-alike editor Russell Spam. Failing TV Presenter Richard Lipton believes that his integrity will enable him to clean up the Daily Crucible. Is he right?

As Lipton sets about cleaning up the Daily Crucible, Greg Kettle manages to turn an educational report into a porno scandal.

Lipton's banishment of reporter Greg Kettle to El Salvador results in a story that touches the heart of millions.

Bright young hope Maggie Troon may yet achieve some real investigative journalism for the Daily Crucible, increasing Richard Lipton's hopes of cleaning up the paper. But Twiggy and Russell Spam decide that his war on Page Three calls for devious counter-measures.

The Daily Crucible indulges in a little espionage and comes up trumps with the most sensational free offer of all time.

A Royal Commission is about to put a drastic end to the runaway sales of Twiggy Rathbone's Daily Crucible. The only thing that can stop Lord Gilbert's report is a little underhand work - or a genuine story of international importance.