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M-Net to screen exclusive Oscar Pistorius interview

Cape Town - M-Net and SuperSport have secured the rights to screen the much talked-about ITV documentary Oscar Pistorius: The Interview, featuring the former Paralympic athlete’s first television interview since the tragic events of Valentine’s Day in 2013.

M-Net viewers will be able to watch the interview as part of a Carte Blanche special minutes after its world-premiere on the UK television network on Friday, June 24.

The Carte Blanche special, which will include an in-depth panel discussion, will start at 22:55 on both M-Net and its sister channel M-Net City (channel 115), which is also on DStv Compact.

Soon thereafter (exact details to be confirmed) the documentary as well as the Carte Blanche special will become available on all the DStv Catch Up platforms, while SuperSport will broadcast further screenings for those who didn’t stay up late for the express delivery to M-Net on Friday night.

“We will have the Oscar Pistorius interview on our screens literally as the end credits are rolling on ITV,” says Jan du Plessis, Director: M-Net Channels.

“The content of the documentary will undoubtedly make headline news across the globe and our viewers will be able to see it in full and in high quality on the M-Net Channels first. In addition to that the Carte Blanche team, who has been following the trial intensively from the start, will add to the conversation with their valuable insights and comments with the Carte Blanche special.”

In Oscar Pretorius: The Interview, Peabody award-winning investigative journalist Mark Williams-Thomas meets up with the Blade Runner at his uncle Arnold Pistorius’ home in Waterkloof, Pretoria, where he has been under house arrest, awaiting sentencing after South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal overturned the High Court’s original verdict of culpable homicide to murder.

Viewers will hear Oscar’s account of what happened on the night he shot and killed his then girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

He also shares details about their relationship and his previous use of firearms.

Furthermore, Mark Williams-Thomas probes into key details of the prosecution case which resulted in the conviction.

Prior to next week Friday’s Oscar Pistorius: The Interview. A Carte Blanche Special, M-Net’s acclaimed actuality programme will look into Oscar Pistorius’ sentencing in the show on Sunday, June 19 at 19:00.

Carte Blanche’s John Webb, who has been reporting from court throughout the trial, will analyse the past week’s second round of arguments in mitigation and aggravation of sentence.

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