Buckingham holds his breath… This Sunday, March 7, Harry and Meghan will be the guests of a special show, led by star host Oprah Winfrey, and broadcast in the United States on CBS News.
In France, it is the TF1 group which has exclusively got hold of this “intimate conversation” of an hour and a half.
He was not the only one in the line.
BFMTV, in particular, would have tried to buy the interview.
The Bouygues subsidiary plans to broadcast this first major interview of the couple, post- "Megxit", Monday evening at 9:15 pm on TMC.
In Britain, ITV reportedly spent £ 1million
A year after their break with the British royal family, the confessions of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on American television promise to be uncompromising and potentially explosive for the monarchy.
The tone was set by an extract broadcast by the CBS channel: we see the Duchess of Sussex accusing Buckingham Palace of "
peddling lies
" about the couple's decision, in early 2020, to withdraw from the royal family to settle in California.
Clearly, this shocking and eagerly awaited interview, has been agitating for several days all the consultants, experts in royalty as well as the media around the world.
In Britain ITV reportedly paid £ 1million for the broadcast rights to the interview, according to
The Telegraph
newspaper
.
The BBC was also in the running, but threw in the towel.
In France, TF1 does not communicate on the amount granted for the broadcasting rights of the interview with the royal couple.
But it is very far from the check signed by ITV in England.
The stake, across the Channel, is much more important.