I can exclusively break the news that South African viewers are now also going to see the longer premiere episode of the brand-new second season of The Walking Dead when the season kicks off on
Fox FX (TopTV 110) on Tuesday 18 October at 21:00 after the news late yesterday that the first episode has been supersized to 90 minutes in America.
Fox in South Africa quickly responded to my media enquiry to find out what is happening and is telling me that TopTV subscribers will now also be seeing the longer first episode of the second season when the season kicks off in South Africa 48 hours after it will start in America.
The South African episode's actual broadcasting time will be slightly shorter than 90 minutes - because the episode won't have the same number, and duration, of commercials than in America. ''We will be airing the longer version of episode one,'' says Thandi Davids, Fox Africa director, ''although as we do not take ads it will not be 90 minutes long.''
