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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.

Very mediocre hagiography that rehashs what we already know and avoids most of the darker stuff. The details of his sex life are obfuscated by a lens that only wants to see long term lovers and the details of quite who he's doing what with when become quite unclear.

I'm not sure why it does the most boring narrative choice of birth to death linear narrative. Better to have started in the 1950s as he fell deeper and deeper out of favour.

But there is some great archive and they allow the clips to play without narrating over everything.

Rupert Everett barely dials in his vocal performance as Coward. They should've used AI like The Andy Warhol Diaries did so successfully.