by Thinus Ferreira
TVwithThinus can reveal that M-Net (DStv 101) has grabbed the broadcasting rights for Africa to Oprah Winfrey's exclusive sit-down TV special with Prince Harry and Meghan containing some shocking revelations and will show the 2-hour interview on Monday 8 March at 19:30 in South Africa.
The TV special entitled CBS presents Oprah with Meghan and Harry that was originally meant to be 90-minutes has since been extended to 2 hours and will air in Africa on M-Net just 16 hours after it is broadcast in America on Sunday night 7 March in the United States.
In Australia the TV special will air on Network 10 and the United Kingdom the special will be seen on ITV at 23:00, which means that South African DStv subscribers will see the special and its contents 2 and a half hours before British viewers.
In CBS presents Oprah with Meghan and Harry, Oprah Winfrey will speak with Meghan The
Duchess of Sussex in a wide-ranging interview covering everything from stepping
into life as a Royal, marriage, motherhood, and philanthropic work to how she is
handling life under intense public pressure.
Later, the two are joined by
Prince Harry as they speak about their move to the United States and their
future hopes and dreams for their expanding family.
In the CBS TV promo released for the special, Oprah makes sure to confirm with Meghan that "I just want to make it clear to everybody that there is no subject that is off-limits, and that one of the questions the talk show queen later asks Meghan is: "Were you silent or were you silenced?"
Later Oprah says "You've said some pretty shocking things here".
It's understood that the couple wanted ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group responsible for the TV special's international distribution, to find the best and most prominent broadcasters around the world who might be interested in showing their Oprah interview.
TVwithThinus first asked M-Net on 15 February whether it's secured the possible right or are interested in acquiring it and if it hadn't, whether it is something that M-Net is looking at getting.
On Monday M-Net was asked again after insiders said that M-Net had indeed now reached out to ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group with the pay-TV broadcaster that was waiting to hear back from the distributor early this week.
Prince Harry and Meghan's last TV special, their personally-managed documentary, Harry & Meghan: An African Journey, that detailed their South Africa and Southern African visit was broadcast in November 2019 on ITV Choice, ITV Studios' TV channel that MultiChoice shuttered last year.
That special gave a behind-the-scenes look at the Sussexes visit and included the Dutchess of Sussex at the time opening up about her struggles with motherhood in the public eye for the first time.
With the defunct ITV Choice out of the picture, M-Net and BBC Studios' BBC Brit (DStv 120) were the natural two TV frontrunners to pick up the special for Africa with M-Net that closed the deal.
CBS presents Oprah with Meghan and Harry is produced by Harpo Productions with Terry Wood and Tara Montgomery as the executive producers and Brian Piotrowicz as co-executive producer.
