Audiences are getting a first look at six-part series focusing on the affair between Monica Lewinsky and former US President Bill Clinton.

"The Clinton Affair" is the latest work from Academy Award and Emmy-winning producer Alex Gibney's Jigsaw Productions and Emmy-winning director Blair Foster.

The series, which will air on the A&E network from November 19, 2018, examines one of the biggest political scandals of a generation and its lasting impact on the US.

"The Clinton Affair" coincides with the 20th anniversary of Clinton's impeachment proceedings and chronicles the events leading up to the trial as well as exploring the role of media, feminism and politics in this story of sex, power, lies and ideological warfare.

In an accompanying essay for Vanity Fair, the now 45-year-old Lewinsky writes that were she to meet up with Hillary Clinton today she would make a sincere apology to her.

Additionally, she writes that it's not a matter of whether she (Lewinsky) is owed or deserving of an apology from Bill Clinton but rather that he should want to apologise and that "he would be a better man for it... and we, in turn, a better society".

While addressing a panel in New York earlier this year Clinton told the audience: "I apologised to my family, to Monica Lewinsky and her family, and to the American people before a panel of ministers in the White House, which was widely reported".