‘Scoop’ review: Prince Andrew interview movie is a royal bore
nypost.comSpotlight”).Running time: 102 minutes. Rated TV-14. On Netflix April 5.Or neither.That murky middle is seen in “Scoop,” a Dollar Store “Frost/Nixon” about Prince Andrew’s 2019 interview with the BBC in the wake of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking scandal.Director Philip Martin’s film is not poorly made, per se, but its efforts to make the exciting behind-the-scenes scramble to get the Duke of York on TV are for naught.
The biggest hurdle, as far as entertainment is concerned, is that this really is a Goliath vs. Goliath story. The movie tries ever so hard to frame the BBC — the world’s largest broadcaster — as some sort of scrappy startup.
Too bad the viewer knows neither “B” stands for blog. Sure there have been layoffs at the company, and the current affairs program “Newsnight” is trying to up the ante with eye-grabbing stories.
Producer Sam McAlister is worried she’ll lose her job.Yet because of their still significant resources, we don’t root for McAlister (Billie Piper), anchor Emily Maitlis (Gillian Anderson) and editor Esme Wren (Romola Garai) so much as admire their professional abilities.
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