she and billie piper have been speaking to colin paterson.f. it's newsnight, the movie, or rather, a netflix dramatisation of how producer sam mcalister, played by billie piper, secured emily maitlis's 2019 interview with prince andrew... the allegations surrounding jeffrey epstein include his friend prince andrew. ..with gillian anderson as emily maitlis. like a walk in the park. why do you need to make a dramatic version of it when the original is still there for everyone to see? well, because this, as much as anything, is about the story behind the acquisition of the interview. why not dramatise up until one of the most important and dramatic interviews in history, really? i think it is, in history, yeah. myjob is booking the people we can'tjust call up. hello, everyone. billie, it's important to say this is very much from the point of view of sam mccalister, who you play? she's so high energy and unlike anyone i've ever met, actually, and i don't say that lightly. i've never been smuggled into a palace before. at first, gillian anderson a

scoop tells the behind—the—scenes story, with billie piper as the producer sam mcalister, who landedinment correspondent colin patterson. tomorrow night, in an unprecedented interview, we will hear from the duke himself. it's newsnight, the movie, or rather, a netflix dramatisation of how producer sam mcalister, played by billie piper, secured emily maitlis's 2019 interview with prince andrew... the allegations surrounding jeffrey epstein include his friend prince andrew. ..with gillian anderson as emily maitlis. of how producer sam mcalister, played by billie piper, like a walk in the park. why do you need to make a dramatic version of it when the original is still there for everyone to see? well, because this, as much as anything, is about the story behind the acquisition of the interview. why not dramatise up until one of the most important and dramatic interviews in history, really? i think it is, in history, yeah. myjob is booking the people we can'tjust call up. hello, everyone. billie, it's important to say this is very much from the point of view of sam mccalister, who you pl

i was going to say the star of scoop, but billie piper plays her. mcallister. hello. it's so meta, guys, honestly. i'm confused at this stage. we're in a studio talking to you as our former colleague, who's now an author, but is being played by billie piper in the drama, which also stars gillian anderson playing emily maitlis, who sometimes used to appear on this podcast, but is now a rival podcaster. well, in that case... i mean, it's a lot of water under the bridge! welcome. i was going to say, it was super weird for me seeing the netflix representation of my office. it must have been even weirder for you seeing the netflix representation of your entire life. it's so next level weird, and amazing, and surreal, and bonkers. i mean, i've run out of words. but to see fictional me arriving at real bbc, to go into fictional bbc, where fictional emily maitlis and my fictional former boss, esme wren, played by romola garai, are all hanging out together. i mean, it's next level, need a lie down. it is mad seeing these famous actors playing people used to

scoop tells the behind—the—scenes story, with billie piper as the producer sam mcalister, who landedbelieved taking on the role of the former newsnight host was too scary. they've both been speaking to our entertainment correspondent colin paterson. tomorrow night, in an unprecedented interview, we will hear from the duke himself. it's newsnight: the movie, or rather, a netflix dramatisation of how producer sam mccallister, played by billie piper, secured emily maitlis' 2019 interview with prince andrew. the allegations surrounding jeffrey epstein include his friend prince andrew. with gillian anderson as emily maitlis. i could walk in the park. why do you need to make a dramatic version of it when the original is still there? because this, as much as anything, is about the story behind the acquisition of the interview. why not dramatise up until one of the most important and dramatic interviews in history, really. i think it is in history, isn't it? myjob is booking the people we can'tjust call up. hello, everyone. billie, it's important to say this is very much from the point of vi

gillian anderson and billie piper both agree that there is almost no chance he will watch this versionrks the spring equinox and already we have had some signs of spring. in lincolnshire today with some hazy temperatures, temperatures got to 17 celsius. that won't necessarily last for the rest of this week, as i will show you in a moment. in the short term, the milder we have in place is also feeding a lot of cloud in our direction and that cloud is producing some outbreaks of rain. this is where we are expecting the rain to be as we head through the rest of the night. we will see some clear skies in the north—west of scotland, allowing it to get a little chilly. further south and east, a very mild night for the time of year, ten or 11 to take us into tomorrow morning. it will be a cloudy start for most with some outbreaks of rain. a lot of the rain will tend to peter out and turn increasingly light and patchy. for some, it will brighten up. in the south—east of england, if we see hazy sunshine, temperature in london could get to 18. for south—west england, wales, the midlands, parts o

gillian anderson and billie piper both agree that there is almost no chance he will watch this versionand there are plenty of signs of spring around. lots of daffodils and today temperatures in central and eastern england got up to 17 degrees and with this feed off mild air from the south. however, do not rest on your laurels because spring can bring us cold weather and look at this by the weekend, a change in wind direction and something significantly colder. but in the short term we have a feed of mild air giving rise to mist and fog in the south—west and you can see outbreaks of rain for many of us through the night although the north west of scotland will hold onto some clear skies but it will be quite a chilly night here but elsewhere very mild as we start tomorrow morning but for many there will be cloud and outbreaks of rain across the central slice of the uk and the rain tending to peter out to some extent as the day wears on but across the south—east corner, if the sun comes out tomorrow, temperatures could peak at 18 celsius. still a little bit murky for some of the western c

in scoop, sam mcalister is played by billie piper with gillian anderson as emily maitlis.erview was first broadcast... i was with the children and i'd taken beatricel to a pizza express in woking. what are your memories? just agog. like, couldn't believe what i was seeing and sort of felt like i don't know if i'll ever see anything like this again. i couldn't believe what i was seeing. i think i put off watching it because i heard what a, i want to say catastrophe in terms of... but at the same time, it feels like it's just a car crash in slow motion in a way. and, you know, on the one hand, itjust throws up so many questions, so many questions. why do you need to make a dramatic version of it when the original is still there for everyone to see? well, because this, as much as anything, is about the story behind the acquisition of the interview. why not dramatise up until one of the most important and dramatic interviews in history, really? i think it is in history, yeah. myjob is booking the people. we can't just call up. hello, everyone. billie, it's important to say thi

. >> reporter: piper johnson didn't even risk getting on the roads. instead she and her dog billy walked to downtown truckee to check on her art gallery. >> i wanted to see if anyone else was open, see if other people were open. maybe we should open, but i just walked the whole strip and only saw three other stores open. so i thought not really worth it. >> reporter: many restaurants, however, were open. >> never seen it up that high. >> reporter: we caught up with several people braving the elements for a hot meal. >> my friends that used to live here in town, so we met them for breakfast, just came from church with all the other brave souls. >> reporter: we even ran into one family up here from the bay area. they told us they come up here every year for a family vacation and weren't going to let this storm stop them. >> we're getting out of the house coming down here. we've been playing games at night, family dinners, everything. so we love it. >> reporter: the tricky part will be getting back home. many people we spoke with were supposed to leave town on sunday, but the weather

. >> reporter: piper johnson didn't risk getting on the roads. instead she and her dog billy walked to downtown truckee to check on her art gallery. >> i wanted to see if anyone else was open. if other people were open, maybe we should open. but i walked the strip and only saw three stores open. not really worth it. >> reporter: many restaurants were open. >> i have never seen it so high. >> reporter: we caught up with several people braving the elements for a hot meal. >> my friends are in town and we met for breakfast, just came from church with the other wave souls. >> reporter: we ran into one family up here from the bay area. they told us they come every year for a family vacation and weren't going to let the storm stop them. >> getting out of the house, coming down here. we have been playing games at night, family dinners. we love it. >> reporter: the tricky part will be getting back home. many people we spoke with were supposed to leave town monday but the weather is keeping them another day. >> to keep up with our continuing coverage of the winter storm, stay with us