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Why new Netflix drama Scoop contains hidden 'slights' about Emily Maitlis: Inside the feud between BBC star and her £30k-a-year producer who says SHE was the driving force behind infamous Prince Andrew interview


It's the film that promises to lift the lid on how Prince Andrew's excruciating BBC interview with Emily Maitlis came to air. But behind the scenes of the Netflix drama there is a David and Goliath rift.

It opens with Gillian Anderson in character as Maitlis, walking on to the broadcast set at Buckingham Palace, juxtaposed with scenes of Billie Piper as Sam McAlister, the producer who negotiated Prince Andrew’s booking, rushing through the BBC’s busy newsroom. While Maitlis would get taxis for work journeys, McAlister forked out for buses from the BBC’s central London HQ to Buckingham Palace for meetings with Prince Andrew’s former private secretary Amanda Thirsk, played by Keeley Hawes. Back at Broadcasting House, Maitlis has firmly won the support of her former Newsnight colleagues, with some of them apparently resenting how McAlister has ‘dared to place herself front and centre’ in the whole affair.

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