Honestly, you wait ages for a drama based on Prince Andrew’s disastrous 2019 Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis, then two come along at once. This ponderous Amazon three-parter with Michael Sheen as the boorish royal and Ruth Wilson adopting a bizarre drawl as his journalistic nemesis, arrives mere months after Rufus Sewell and Gillian Anderson played the roles in Netflix’s film Scoop.
Both productions are examples of media self-congratulation – yay, it was *us* who brought down a royal! Both suffer from the fact that the most excruciating lowlights of Andrew’s responses are already burned on the nation’s frontal cortex.
