’Scoop’ digs up very little that we didn’t already know

In the wake of the death of Jeffrey Epstein, hard-driving Newsnight booker Sam McAllister convinces the private secretary to Prince Andrew to take part in a no-holds-barred interview. Together with her producer and the host of 'Newsnight', Emily Maitlis , they set the stage for one of the most monumental news interviews in British television history...

For much of 'Scoop', you're hoping beyond hope that it'll set into something resembling a flashy upcycling of '' for the age of the internet. After all, there are similarities that cannot be ignored. Both were interviews that fundamentally changed how people viewed the subjects, both were done against the backdrop of huge controversy, and both ultimately came to be a defining point in the careers of both parties.

Yet, for much of 'Scoop', we're locked in with Sam McAlister - played with gusto by Billie Piper - as she tries to circumnavigate the high-minded BBC staff that are getting in her way towards a good story. Gillian Anderson floats in and out of a few scenes on the lead-up to the interview, but largely has nothing to do until the movie's final act.

Fundamentally, 'Scoop' digs up nothing we didn't already know about Prince Andrew or Jeffrey Epstein. By all accounts, it seems as though Prince Andrew's staff - personified by Keeley Hawes' character - allowed the interview simply because they felt he was able to explain it all away. There's very little in the way of digging up or investigation like, say,'s 'The Insider' or any other journalism movie you can think of.

'Scoop' has its moments, for sure, and Rufus Sewell gives an uncanny performance in the interview next to Gillian Anderson's permanently baffled expression throughout it, but so much of 'Scoop' seems wrapped up in the mythos and triumph of the big interview and very little in the legwork required to get there, which is where these kinds of movies get their zest from. Here, it's all sizzle and little steak.

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