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BBC Chair Richard Sharp has said MacTaggart lecturer Emily Maitlis was “completely wrong” to say due process was not followed after her now-infamous Dominic Cummings Newsnight rant, and rubbished her claim that a Conservative Party agent sits on the BBC Board. Maitlis, who has now left the BBC and is fronting a Global…

Emily Maitlis, whose notorious interview with Prince Andrew forced the disgraced royal to announce his departure from public life, has revealed she believes the prince "had behaved rather well." The former BBC presenter, who interviewed the prince for its flagship Newsnight programme, told The Times that the duke's…

Emily Maitlis, one of the most respected British news broadcasters of the past two decades and the notorious Prince Andrew Newsnight interviewer, is to deliver this year’s prestigious James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival. Former Newsnight host Maitlis’ address, which will focus on the…

The two women responsible for persuading Prince Andrew to sit down on camera and give his now-notorious interview explaining his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein are now in competition to bring the behind-the-screen events to film. Deadline previously exclusively announced that Sam McAlister, the former Newsnight interv…

EXCLUSIVE: The story of how the BBC obtained the bombshell interview with Prince Andrew about his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is to become a film called Scoop, and Hugh Grant is one of the unconfirmed names on wish list to portray the disgraced royal, Deadline has learned. Acclaimed Your Hono…

Stewart Maclean, the executive producer of the BBC’s notorious Prince Andrew interview, has been named Editor of flagship BBC Two topical format Newsnight. Maclean replaces Esme Wren, who recently departed to head up Channel 4 News. He has been Newsnight Deputy Editor for four years and oversaw the 2019 negotiations…

Channel 4 News has unveiled BBC Newsnight Editor Esme Wren as its next Editor, replacing Ben de Pear. Wren will start in the new year, overseeing the UK network’s flagship news show, which is produced by ITN. She has led Newsnight for the past three years and has produced a raft of major exclusives and investigations…

EXCLUSIVE: A BBC insider has told us the decision to reprimand Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis on Wednesday over her comments about Dominic Cummings was “weak and embarrassing.” In a blistering attack, the well-placed BBC news source, who works on one of the corporation’s flagship shows, said: “BBC bosses couldn't…

BBC presenter Emily Maitlis has been reprimanded by the broadcaster for comments made on last night's edition of flagship news and current affairs program Newsnight about a controversial lockdown trip taken by government aide Dominic Cummings. Deadline has confirmed that Maitlis will not be hosting Wednesday’s edition…

The BBC has released the first taste of its world exclusive “no-holds-barred” interview with Prince Andrew — and it looks like the Duke of York will be dining out on a big slice of humble pie. Prince Andrew has been on the ropes over his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in…

Prince Andrew is going to face questions about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein for the first time in an exclusive interview to be broadcast by BBC Newsnight on Saturday. Presenter Emily Maitlis sat down with the Prince at Buckingham Palace on Thursday after weeks of front-page headlines about his involvement…

Steven Seagal walked out of an interview on BBC’s Newsnight today when host Kirsty Wark brought up allegations of sexual misconduct. Wark asked Seagal about the #MeToo movement. “You’ve been very much caught up in all the allegations of sexual harassment, you had a rape allegation against you and I wonder how you…