The 'A Very Royal Scandal' Trailer Sees Michael Sheen and Ruth Wilson Face Off

BBC Newsnight's 2019 interview with England's Prince Andrew is rightly remembered as one of modern media's greatest trainwrecks. An hour-long conversation in which the prince was grilled about his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and questioned about his own relationship with a woman who had accused him of having underage sex with her; the entire event was a jaw-dropping study in oblivious, out-of-touch delusion. That it was deliciously scandalous in a car crash sort of way is obvious, if only in the ways that we, as a society, are still so relentlessly fascinated by the interview and the long tail of its fall-out.

Maybe it's our cultural obsession with England's Royal Family or the basic human desire to see an influential person held to account. Still, whatever the reason, with the premiere of A Very Royal Scandal, we're getting our second take on the Prince Andrew interview in the space of a year. (Yes, really! And it's only been five years since it happened!)

The third installment in Prime Video's loose "Scandal" anthology series, previous installments of which have focused on Ian and Margaret Campell's contentious divorce and Jeremy Thorpe's trial for conspiracy, A Very Royal Scandal stars Michael Sheen (Good Omens) as Andrew and Ruth Wilson (The Woman in the Wall) as journalist Emily Maitlis. And the production counts Maitlis herself as one of its executive producers, meaning that its source material is certainly more immediate than most.