BREAKING. E! Entertainment announces major coverage and several TV specials for the Royal Wedding of Prince William.

E! Entertainment (DStv 124) just announced Royal Wedding coverage fit for a king. The entertainment channel says it will also be live streaming the Royal Wedding on 29 April online on its website at E! Online with wedding news.

• E! Entertainment's daily news show E! News will be done from right in front of Buckingham Palace by Giuliana Rancic from Monday 25 April leading up to the wedding day.

• Then E! Entertainment plans to show the NBC special Inside the Royal Wedding (no South Africa time yet) on Thursday 28 April.

• E! Entertainment will have that live Royal Wedding Arrival special anchored by Giuliana Rancic.
E! Entertainment says this special will run for 5 hours, live from London and that it will be starting at 10:00 (South African time). After the 5 hours, the Royal Wedding Arrivals special will immediately repeat again.

• E! Entertainment is planning to show that E! News Special: Road to the Altar I told you about last month on Saturday 30 April at 03:00 (SA time, but it could change). It's a one hour special.

• A special wedding-themed, one hour episode of Fashion Police is scheduled for Saturday 30 April at 04:00 (SA time, but it could change) presented by Joan Rivers, Kelly Osbourne, Giuliana Rancic and George Kotsiopoulos.

• E! Online will present a live stream of the Royal Wedding, as well as breaking wedding news, comprehensive photo galleries, wedding-related videos and other special interactive features leading up to, during and after the event.

BREAKING. E! News coming from right in front of Buckingham Palace in London from 25 April for a week leading up to the Royal Wedding.

The daily entertainment news show E! News will be coming to viewers around the world right from the front of Buckingham Palace from Monday 25 April, daily, as part of E! Entertainment's (DStv 124) extensive coverage leading up to the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton on 29 April.

E! Entertainment just announced that E! News with Giuliana Rancic who will be in London, will originate on location from Buckingham Palace for the whole week leading up to the wedding day.

The hour long E! News (with shorter dispersed bits during the day) is broadcast in South Africa on E! Entertainment daily at 02:25.

ALSO READ: E! News' Giuliana Rancic going to London to cover the Royal Wedding for E! Entertainment.

Programming note: The Oprah Winfrey Show back - and actually 5 minutes earlier - from next Monday, 4 April at 17:30.

While there's no new episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show today since the show is still in the 21:30 timeslot due to the cricket but got pushed out today because of the Survivor Gabon finale and reunion episodes, there will be more new Oprah episodes from tomorrow/Tuesday.

From Monday 4 April The Oprah Winfrey Show will be back in its regular SABC3 timeslot, and actually 5 minutes earlier at 17:30.

On Tuesday 29 Mach (tomorrow) Oprah talks to Tyler Perry who's speaking out about his childhood sexual abuse.
On Wednesday 30 March Lisa Marie Presley is on Oprah to talk about the death and in her words ''misunderstood'' marriage to her ex popstar Michael Jackson.
On Thursday 31 March Oprah is about a mom, Diane Downs, who killed her own three children.

ALSO READ: The final episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show to be broadcast in America on Wednesday 25 May.

BBC announces more TV presenters for its live coverage of the Royal Wedding on 29 April on BBC Knowledge.

The BBC has just revealed more TV presenter information regarding the Beep's coverage of the Royal Wedding on Friday 29 April of Prince William and Kate Middleton which the BBC will be showing live in South Africa on BBC World News (DStv 400 / Top TV 400) with a newsier slant, and on BBC Knowledge (DStv 251) with more straight-forward special event entertainment coverage.

ALSO READ: BBC World News to do live coverage of the Royal Wedding on 29 April.
ALSO READ: More specific details on the massive coverage BBC World News is planning on the day and in the days leading up to the Royal Wedding on 29 April.
ALSO READ: BBC Knowledge to do a live broadcast of the Royal Wedding on 29 April.

Huw Edwards will be seen on BBC Knowledge as the main anchor of that version of the live coverage of the Royal Wedding. The live Royal Wedding coverage on BBC Knowledge will basically be the ''domestic'' coverage of the BBC of the Royal Wedding, meaning, it will be what Britains will be seeing on their own terrestrial channel BBC One. (Misal Husain will be leading the coverage as the main anchor for BBC World News - basically the worldwide news service on television.)

Huw Edwards will be based outside Buckingham Palace where he will be joined by fellow anchors Fiona Bruce and Sophie Raworth who will be situated at key locations in central London. BBC-ers roped in from radio  to help on TV for the day are Fearne Cotton and Edith Bowman, BBC Sport presenter Jake Humphrey, Chris Hollins, along with Alex Jones and her colleague, Anita Rani. They will all ''capture the stories, excitement and celebrations from across London, the United Kingdon and around the world,'' says the BBC.

The BBC also announced that it will be streaming live coverage on its website portal on 29 April at  bbc.co.uk/royalwedding

''The BBC's in-depth coverage of the Royal Wedding will bring the event to life for viewers,'' says Mark Byford, the BBC's deputy director general who is overseeing the BBC's Royal Wedding plans.

BREAKING. Canceled? Maybe not. Carte Blanche Extra on M-Net gone tonight after just 10 episodes ... but could possibly return.

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Carte Blanche Extra on M-Net is possibly not going the same cancellation route as the previous two spin-offs last year Carte Blanche Medical and Carte Blanche Consumer - although the 3rd spin-off attempt did broadcasting its final episode tonight ... for now.

''Welcome to the final episode of Carte Blanche Extra for this season,'' said presenter Devi Sankaree Govender at the start of tonight's 10th and unusually short season. The Combined Artists produced show gave viewers a more behind-the-scenes glimpse of the making of this investigative magazine programme. But Devi Sankaree Govender did say season and not series.  Could M-Net possibly be thinking of bringing Carte Blanche Extra back in the future? ''Keep your stories coming in,'' said Devi Sankaree Govender.

She again reiterated at the end of the final episode that ''that's it for the final episode of Carte Blanche Extra for this season,'' this time with special emphasis on the word season. ''Thank you very much for your stories and invaluable support. We will be back with more. Join Derek on Sunday evenings for Carte Blanche at 19:00 and on behalf of the Carte Blanche Extra team, goodnight.''

BREAKING. Putla Sehlapelo replacing Tony Kgoroge in the role of Tiro in M-Net's new soap The Wild.

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Actor Putla Sehlapelo has joined M-Net's The Wild in the place of Tony Kgoroge who left when agreement couldn't be reached on a contract for the new soap that will start on Monday 4 April at 18:00 on the pay broadcaster and will run Mondays to Thursdays.

Putla Sehlapelo is reshooting all of the scenes in which Tony Kgoroge appeared - about a month's worth of episodes. ''The Wild has confirmed Putla Sehlapelo to its list of local stars,'' M-Net says in a just-issued statement of the actor who've appeared in dramas like Society and Intersexions and the soap Muvhango. Putla Sehlapelo will portray the role of Tiro Lebone, a young millionaire and the brother of Connie Ferguson's character.

Tiro Lebone is described as an ''eligible bachelor who gets the attentions of all women, yet he still hasn't met a woman that captures his heart.''

ALSO READ: Wild drama behind The Wild as actor Tony Kgoroge abruptly departs M-Net's new soap.

Programming note: Kwêla on kykNET moves half an hour earlier to the 19:30 timeslot from Wednesday, 6 April.

The weekly Afrikaans entertainment magazine show Kwêla will also be changing timeslots in line with all the other show changes on the Afrikaans satellite channel from April, with Kwêla that will be moving half an hour earlier from next Wednesday 6 April, from 20:00 to 19:30.

ALSO READ: kykNET has 5 new shows and several new seasons of returning shows from April.
ALSO READ: kykNET also set to refresh its on-air look from 1 April.
ALSO READ: Villa Rosa on kykNET moves to 18:00 from Monday 4 April.

The show's spin-off, Kwêla Funnies presented by Pieter Koen will start on Tuesday 5 April at 20:30. It's a compilation of the funny home videos sent in by viewers the past few years that formed a part of the main show's viewer competition.

RENEWAL NEWS. Fringe, The Amazing Race gets further seasons; No Ordinary Family seems done for.

A few more shows got renewal notices. Fringe (M-Net) has been renewed for a 4th season by the Fox Network in America. The show dealing with parallel realities and a New York with still-standing World Trade Center towers and airships and starring Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson and John Noble got an additional 22 episodes.

Also renewed is the longrunning reality show The Amazing Race (Sony Entertainment Television, SABC3) by the CBS network. The Amazing Race was renewed for a 19th season. When Law & Order: Los Angeles (M-Net) returns after it was yanked in America by NBC which also forced its disappearance from M-Net, it will only be known as Law & Order: LA.

Not looking so good is No Ordinary Family (M-Net Series). ABC just had a new episode this past Saturday. No new TV is shown on a Saturday in America which means the network is burning off the remaining episodes just to be done with the show.

Robyn Smith back behind the eNews Late Edition anchor desk from tonight on e.tv.

I can tell you that Robyn Smith will be back behind the news anchor desk from tonight for the eNews Late Edition at 22:00 on e.tv. She returned today from leave.

Meanwhile viewers will have noticed that Scheherezade Safla replaced Robyn Smith since January as the new afternoon co-anchor of Andrew Barnes on News Day on the eNews Channel (DStv 403).

News Day on the eNews Channel is broadcast on weekdays from 13:00 to 16:00.