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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…

 The battle lines between the BBC and its former star news presenter Emily Maitlis continue to be drawn, with BBC insiders lending their support after she claimed a BBC board member had interfered in editorial matters as "an active agent" of the Conservative party. After Maitlis made the claim in her lecture at the Ed…

The BBC has hit back at its former star presenter Emily Maitlis, who this week claimed the organization had succumbed to government interference when it reprimanded her over comments she made on air. The day after Maitlis made the claim in her lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival, the BBC's director of content…

British broadcaster Emily Maitlis has warned that populism has overcome the power of the mainstream media to hold politicians to account in the wake of Donald Trump’s popularity and Brexit, and unveiled a blueprint for wrestling back control in her MacTaggart lecture today in Edinburgh. Delivering this year’s annual…

Dino Sofos might not be a household name in the same vein as Edinburgh TV Festival MacTaggart lecturer Emily Maitlis or former BBC North America Editor Jon Sopel, but he has had a mighty impact on the British broadcasting news landscape of late. The creator of the hugely-popular Brexitcast, Americast and Newscast BBC…

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 the wish list to portray the disgraced royal, Deadline has…

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…

BBC Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis has taken a swipe at what she called "trite and misleading" language from the UK government when discussing COVID-19. "You do not survive the illness through fortitude and strength of character, whatever the Prime Minister's colleagues will tell us," said Maitlis, referring to…