Johannesburg - South Africans will be able to see the controversial Oscar Pistorius interview on M-Net after its world premiere on Friday, on the UK ITV network.
M-Net and SuperSport have secured the rights to screen the much-talked-about documentary Oscar Pistorius: The Interview, which features the former Paralympic athlete’s first television interview since the events of Valentine’s Day in 2013.
The interview formed part of the State’s case during sentencing proceedings last week.
M-Net viewers will be able to watch the interview as part of Carte Blanche minutes after its world premier.
The Carte Blanche special, which will include an in-depth panel discussion, will start at 10pm on Friday on both M-Net and its sister channel M-Net City (channel 115), also on DStv Compact.
Thereafter, the documentary as well as the Carte Blanche special will be available on all the DStv Catch Up platforms.
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 of M-Net.
In the screening, the Peabody Award-winning investigative journalist Mark Williams-Thomas meets up with the Blade Runner at his uncle Arnold Pistorius’s home in Waterkloof, Pretoria.
Pistorius has been under house arrest there, awaiting sentencing after the Supreme Court of Appeal overturned the high court’s original verdict of culpable homicide to murder.
Viewers will hear Pistorius's account of what happened on the night he shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius will also share details about their relationship and his previous use of firearms.
The Star