10.47pm: Steve Coogan is discussing hacking on Newsnight and has said that he is glad that the News of the World - "an asylum seeker-hating newspaper" - has "gone to the wall".
Coogan, one of the alleged victims of phone-hacking affair at the News of the World, said that he had been warned in 2002 that his phone had been hacked.
But he was warned that he could not "go after" Andy Coulson - who became deputy ediutor of the newspaper in 2000 and editor in 2003 - because the journalist was "untouchable".
Coogan credited the "tenacity of the Guardian and a few individuals who had the guts to take on an intimidating organisation".
11.02pm: The fireworks have suddenly gone off on Newsnight.
Paul McMullen, who was Deputy Features editor at the News of the World from 1994 to 2001, got a few seconds into lamenting the potential impact of the hacking scandal on the role of the tabloid press in British democracy before Greg Dyke, former director general of BBC, and Steve Coogan launched a series of broadsides against him.
"I think you are a walking PR disaster for the tabloids because you don't come across in e a sympathetic way," Coogan told him
"Your come across as a risible individual."
"You are absolutely nothing to do with a decent press and a free democracy," said Dyke.
McMullen attempted to fight back, asking Coogan how many "Murdoch movies" he had appeared in, claiming that the actor had a publicist who spent their time trying to get Coogan in the press.
"You spend your time trying to get in the press. How many Murdoch movies have you been in? You take five million quid a move and then you bleet on."
Angered by McMullen's assertion that he was a journalist, Coogan told him: "You're not a journalist. You know you are not."
