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Welcome back, Martha! I can break the news that The Martha Stewart Show with Martha Stewart is returning to South Africa after an absence of a few years after Top One (TopTV 150) acquired the broadcasting rights.
The Martha Stewart Show, also known as Martha, will start on Top One on Monday 2 May at 17:15. It will be direct competition for SABC3's The Oprah Winfrey Show on weekdays at 17:30. The Martha Stewart Show will be Top One's new daily talk show with new episodes on weekdays.
I can also exclusively reveal that South African viewers will see Martha from the 5th season. The 6th season started in America in September. South African viewers saw the first two seasons of the talk show that Martha Stewart does from New York on The Home Channel a few years ago, but the contract wasn't renewed for a third season. Then, insiders told me that the cost of the broadcasting rights became too prohibitively expensive for the channel and that, if they kept Martha, they wouldn't have been able to afford much else to broadcast. Now South African viewers will skip ahead 2 years and rejoin the show three years later at the start of the 5th season.
