Prince Harry’s ITV Tell-All will go worldwide after arrangements before the interviews

The ITV interview with Prince Harry was broadcast in 77 territories following a series of pre-sale deals for the show.

Harry: The interview was broadcast in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Australia and parts of Asia and South America this week, following a superb 90-minute broadcast on ITV1 and ITVX in the UK on Sunday.

The eloquent interview was watched by 4.1 million in the UK which, despite being ITV’s fourth biggest night title of the year, was significantly down on the 11.1 million who watched Oprah’s interview with Harry and Meghan Markle watched. It aired on CBS in the US and this week on Anderson Cooper 60 minutes Special hit 10.5 million on the US network, far less than the 17.1 million that hit Oprah’s Scoop.

The figures suggest the media frenzy surrounding Harry-Meghan has caused at least some public fatigue, but ITV Studios will point to the quick deal as proof buyers haven’t.

Among the deals for the ITN Productions special, ITV Studios brokered pre-sale deals with TF1 for France, RTL for Germany and the Netherlands, Warner Bros Discovery for Italy and Poland, TV2 for Denmark, DPG for Belgium, TV4 for Sweden and MTV3 in Finland, VGTV in Norway and CMore for Denmark, Finland and Sweden. Network Seven took over the Australian rights, TVNZ took over New Zealand, Paramount+ took over the rights in Canada, Globo in Brazil, Now TV in Hong Kong, Poland, VMI in Ireland and DBS in Israel.

A pan-African agreement with M-Net includes 54 territories and a pan-regional CEE agreement with CME Nova includes the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia, Romania and Bulgaria. More transactions are expected.

Ruth Berry, Managing Director, Global Distribution at ITV Studios, said: “We are delighted to offer our global buyers the opportunity to show Tom Bradby’s extraordinary interview with Prince Harry so soon after it first aired, and to allowing their viewers to experience the story. behind it. the headlines first hand.”

The interview aired in the UK two days before Prince Harry’s long-awaited autobiography Reservations published on January 10. The memoir reveals an angry text exchange between Meghan Markle and Prince William’s wife Kate Middleton, an alleged incident in which William pushed Harry to a dog bowl, revelations about how the royal family leaked stories to the press, his failed plea to his father, now King Charles III for not marrying Camilla Parker Bowles and how racism affected him and his wife.

Baz Bamigboye, Deadline’s International Editor-at-Large and Royal Expert, will have a full review Reservations up this week.