Discovery Networks International which runs the TLC channel in South Africa on MultiChoice's DStv and on On Digital Media's TopTV just confirmed to me what I've reported on Tuesday - that the interview which lasted two and a half hours is being expanded to two episodes which will mean an adjustment for the TLC schedule in South Africa as well.
"Oprah and Lance Armstrong: The Worldwide Exclusive has expanded to air as a two-night event on TLC, giving South African viewers the opportunity to hear even more from the former cycling champion. The special two-part episode of Oprah's Next Chapter will air in South Africa on Friday 18 January at 19:30 and on Saturday 19 January at 19:30 on TLC," says Discovery.
Oprah Winfrey explained on Tuesday that she's "not going to cut down the two and a half hours. As a matter of fact we have decided, literally on the plane last night on the way back, that we are actually going to go for two nights because it is impossible to cut 80 minutes out."
"As you all know, a 90 minute interview on television is really only 65 minutes. So we felt that to leave over half of this on the cutting room floor after millions of people have been waiting for years for many of these answers, would not be the right thing to do," said Oprah Winfrey.
