REVISITING WATERGATE

(April 24 on Starz) stars

The limited series Gaslit Sean Penn, 61, and Julia Roberts, 54, in a new take on an explosive 1970s political scandal. Roberts plays Martha Mitchell, the wife of U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell (Penn). She was the first person to blow the whistle on President Richard Nixon’s involvement in the Watergate break-in and cover-up, causing both the presidency and her marriage to unravel. “Martha Mitchell was a huge celebrity, and people knew John Mitchell as the villain,” says creator Robbie Pickering. “But I’m more interested in them as human beings, not political animals.”