Coronavirus: Multiple TV channels, platforms to show the global Covid-19 concert – One World: Together at Home – on Sunday in South Africa and across Africa.

by Thinus Ferreira

South African viewers will be able to watch One World: Together At Home, a star-studded global concert as a live broadcast very early on Sunday morning, 19 April on BET,  MTV, MTV Base and MSNBC and through online streaming on various platforms, with a primetime rebroadcast on E! on Sunday evening.

The One World: Together at Home broadcast, curated by Lady Gaga will feature appearances by Alanis Morissette, Andrea Bocelli, Billie Eilish, Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, Burna Boy, Chris Martin, David Beckham, Eddie Vedder, Elton John, FINNEAS, Idris and Sabrina Elba, J Balvin, John Legend, Kacey Musgraves, Keith Urban, Kerry Washington, Lang Lang, Lizzo, Maluma, Paul McCartney, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Shah Rukh Khan and Stevie Wonder. 

Others who will appear include Taylor Swift, Celine Dion, Shawn Mendes, Camila Cabello, Jennifer Lopez, Alicia Keys, Sam Smith, Usher and Pharrell Williams.

Also appearing are Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Awkwafina, Amy Poehler, LL Cool J, Lupita Nyong’o, Matthew McConaughey and Victoria Beckham.

The aim of the broadcast is to raise awareness and to generate funds to fight the global spread of the Covid-19 novel coronavirus pandemic, with Global Citizen and the World Health Organisation (WHO) who are partnering together to present the show. 

 One World: Together at Home will be shown as a live broadcast on BET (DStv 129), MTV (DStv 120), MTV Base (DStv 322) and MSNBC (StarSat 263) in South Africa and across sub-Saharan Africa at 02:00 in the morning on Sunday, 19 April at the same time as it is shown in the United States, with E! (DStv 124) that will show a rebroadcast on Sunday evening at 18:00 in South Africa and across Africa. 

Disney's National Geographic (DStv 181 / StarSat 220) is also set to broadcast One World: Together at Home although it's not yet clear whether it will be a live broadcast or a rebroadcast with no announcement from National Geographic in Africa yet.

As a multi-hour digital broadcast streaming online, One World: Together at Home will be accessible on Amazon Prime Video, Facebook, Instagram, Tencent, Tencent Music Entertainment Group, Twitter, Yahoo and YouTube. This digital special will include additional artists and performances. 

The American late-night TV hosts Jimmy Fallon of The Tonight Show and Stephen Colbert of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert seen on e.tv, are set to be the hosts of the One World: Together at Home broadcast and will be filled with musical performances and comedic sketches, with the core purpose to help raise funds and to educate and inform viewers globally about Covid-19 risks, prevention and response. 

The special will also include interviews with experts from the WHO, as well as stories of frontline healthcare workers from around the world and their courage and sacrifice fighting the virus. 

"As we honour and support the heroic efforts of community health workers, One World: Together at Home aims to serve as a source of unity and encouragement in the global fight to end Covid-19," says Hugh Evans, co-founder and CEO of Global Citizen. 

"Through music, entertainment and impact, the global live-cast will celebrate those who risk their own health to safeguard everyone else's. Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, says "We may have to be apart physically for a little while, but we can still come together virtually to enjoy great music. The One World: Together at Home concert represents a powerful show of solidarity against a common threat."

FIRST LOOK! Lady Gaga on Larry King Live today; talks about her ''fascination with death and the demise of celebrity''.

This is how Lady Gaga will look on Larry King Live at 11:00 today (South African time) when she's the guest on Larry King's talk show on CNN International (DStv 401) and they wear inverse black-and-white shirts, ties and suspenders.

In the pre-recorded interview Larry King will ask Lady Gaga about Michael Jackson, and here is some of Lady Gaga's answer: ''He's such an inspiration and remarkable human being. I guess . . . some of my fascination with death and the demise of the celebrity goes along with me watching these hugely iconic and amazing people that I have heralded and admired become destroyed - whether self-destroyed or destroyed by the media."

Fans can also tune in for a tease of Lady Gaga's new ''Alejandro'' music video during this morning's Larry King Live that's a collaboration with Steven Klein.

BREAKING. Nonhle talks to Lady GaGa on O Access.

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Channel O's Nonhle will interview Lady Gaga for O Access on Tuesday, 19 January at 21:00 on Channel O (DStv 320). I can show you this picture first.

In her half hour sit-down interview for which Nonhle flew to South Korea where Lady Gaga was performing, the pop stars tells Nonhle that her success is all about ''hard work and discipline''. The chart topper who's star really started to burn bright in 2009 tells Nonhle how hard she worked to secure her first record deal and how she coped after being dropped by Def Jam.

And she reveals the inspiration behind her name and why she named her debut album The Fame (it's not what you might think.) What fans may find especially inspirational is just how hard Lady Gaga works on serving up the visual feasts of her kinda-weird eye-popping music videos. ''I see no separation between the music and the visual,'' she tells O Access.