Netflix has set the global premiere date for Scoop, the highly-anticipated historical drama featuring an all-star lead cast. Check out the official teaser.
If only Prince Andrew could jump in the TARDIS and somehow undo that trainwreck 2019 BBC interview, “Prince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal,” which focused on the British Royal’s relationship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and the allegations of the Prince’s sexual assault of an underage young woman. Alas, the TARDIS doesn’t actually function in real life the way it does on Doctor Who, so he is living out the still-reverberating aftermath of that historic event.
Based on the nonfiction book Scoops: Behind The Scenes of the BBC’s Most Shocking Interviews, written by now-former BBC producer Sam McAlister, the film Scoop dramatizes the inside account of the tenacious journalism that landed what turned out to be the infamous, earth-shattering interview of Prince Andrew on the BBC Two current affairs program Newsnight — from the tension of producer McAlister’s high-stakes negotiations with Buckingham Palace, to journalist Emily Maitlis’s jaw-dropping, forensic showdown with the Prince.
Written by Peter Moffat (Your Honor, Silk, Criminal Justice) and directed by Philip Martin (The Crown, Wallander, Prime Suspect), Scoop, a Netflix Film, premieres globally on Friday, April 5, exclusively on Netflix. (You can set a reminder for it now.)
The all-star lead cast of Scoop includes Gillian Anderson (The Crown, Sex Education, The First Lady) as Emily Maitlis, Billie Piper (I Hate Suzie, Penny Dreadful, Doctor Who) as (former) BBC producer Sam McAlister; Keeley Hawes (Bodyguard, Stonehouse, The Durrells in Corfu) as Prince Andrew’s (former) aide, Amanda Thirsk; Romola Garai (Vigil, Becoming Elizabeth, The Hour) as (former) Newsnight editor Esme Wren; and Rufus Sewell (The Diplomat, The Man in the High Castle, Victoria) as Prince Andrew.
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Scoops: Behind The Scenes of the BBC’s Most Shocking Interviews by Sam McAlister
