M-Net has secured the broadcasting rights for the excellent new legal drama starring Kathy Bates, Harry's Law that will start on M-Net (DStv 101) and M-Net HD (DStv 170) on Tuesday 24 May at 19:30. Kathy Bates plays a patent lawyer who decided to leave the legal eagle corporate world and sets up shop (literally) in a shoe shop to help ordinary people while she gets support from quirky co-workers.
Meanwhile BBC Entertainment (DStv 120) has made some more acquisitions in at the MipTV market in France. BBC Entertainment bought the rights to the shows Garrow's Law which the channel will show in South Africa later in the year. Garrow's Law is a British period legal drama about 18th century lawyer William Garrow.
BBC Entertainment also snagged the drama Above Suspicion that it will start showing in South Africa from August. The crime drama Above Suspicion is based on Lynda La Plante's novels.
