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This is a rich, ripe story but this telling of it gets lost in the most boring of details. It's always in the weeds. Tennant's character isn't charismatic enough to carry the direct to camera stuff, which is anyway pretty superfluous. All the name redacting is also just another boring tick in the scriptwriting. How you take such great actors and such a great story and make something so self-indulgent and dull is remarkable, in a bad way.

I love Megan Stalter in 'Hacks'. She's a genius...so, what is this? It should be a vehicle for her considerable talents, but instead it's unfunny, unfocused and improbable. It was just plain boring for most of the episodes I could bear to get through. And it suggests that it's going to subvert American stereotypes about England and ends up reinforcing them. Such a waste. What is Will Sharpe doing in this? Again, he's a massive talent but he woefully underused and the lack of chemistry between him and Staler is painfully visible on screen. How did something so disappointing not bet challenged more in development?

If you enjoy seeing endless scenes of Billie Piper walking along streets and down corridors then this is the film for you.

The potential was for a unique insight into the Newsnight production process and the Palace press office as they agree to and execute the interview. Instead, you get some BBC bureaucracy, a hint of classism and almost no insight into why Prince Andrew did what he did.

The piece them makes some laboured points about feminism and pads itself out with a pointless recreation of the interview itself, which, robbed of the drama of fresh revelations, barely holds any interest however well acted.