More than 17 million Americans watched Oprah TV interview with Prince Harry and Meghan (updated)

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08/03/2021 16:51

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    March 8 (Reuters) - More than 17 million Americans watched
Oprah Winfrey's television bombshell interview with Prince Harry
and his wife Meghan, according to preliminary data cited by
Variety and the Hollywood Reporter on Monday.
    The numbers are expected to rise when broadcaster CBS
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    Sunday's two-hour interview was the first given by the
couple since they stepped back from the British royal family a
year ago. Meghan spoke of feeling suicidal, and accused the
royal family of racism, while Harry said his father, Prince
Charles, had let him down.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N2L6024
    While a ratings success for CBS, the preliminary 17.1
million audience was well below that of last year's Oscars
telecast at 23.6 million - one of the biggest celebrity events
on U.S. television.
    Meghan and Harry's tell-all interview with Winfrey dominated
the conversation on social media, morning television shows and
newspaper front pages on Monday in Britain and abroad.
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 (Reporting by Jill Serjeant
Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Howard Goller)
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