PRIMETIME’S UP

Before there was Harvey, there was Roger. In July 2016, former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes. The CEO of Fox News since 1996, Ailes was one of the most prominent men in corporate America. But by the month’s end, as more women came forward including rising Fox News star Megyn Kelly, he was forced to resign. “To take him on… it’s a pretty good underdog story,” says Jay Roach, director of Bombshell, the brilliant new feature that shows exactly how Kelly, Carlson and others brought Ailes down.

As Roach puts it, something “tectonic” happened at Fox News. Just over two months later, the “grab’em by the pussy” video went viral, highlighting Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s own salacious attitudes to women. Then, a year later, the dam broke, as revelations about sexual misconduct surrounding Harvey Weinstein sent shockwaves through the film world. Power, ego and sex went hand-in-hand. “There is