Lifetime to Debut Princess Diana Programming Event

NEW YORK, August 16: To mark the tenth anniversary of
Princess Diana’s death this month, Lifetime Television will launch a
three-night programming event that will include her 1995 BBC interview with
award-winning journalist Martin Bashir, followed by the broadcast of the
original movie The Murder of Princess Diana.

Both programs will air over a three-day period from
Saturday, August 25, through Monday, August 27. Princess Diana’s hour-long
interview with journalist Bashir is scheduled to air on August 25, at 8 p.m.,
August 26 at 5 p.m. and August 27 at 11 p.m. The interview, originally part of
the BBC’s Panorama series, was acquired
from BBC Worldwide America. The interview was Princess Diana’s first one-on-one
sit-down with the media regarding her personal life. In the interview, she shed
light on the breakdown of her marriage to Prince Charles and how the intense
media scrutiny made her personal life almost unbearable. Additionally, she
discussed her depression and eating disorder, her love affair with her riding
trainer James Hewitt, as well as the difficulties of raising her children in
the public spotlight.

Following the interview will be the original movie The
Murder of Princess Diana, which airs August
25 at 9 p.m. and August 26 at 6 p.m. as well as on August 27 at 9 p.m. Starring
Jennifer Morrison (House), the
movie is a fictionalized account of the book by the same name by Noel Botham,
which theorized that the car crash that claimed the lives of the Princess of
Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and their chauffeur Henri Paul, was a
conspiracy. The movie was produced by Universal TV Limited, the television arm
of Working Title Films (United 93,
Bridget Jones' Diary, Pride
and Prejudice), for Lifetime. Simon Wright
is the executive producer and Priscilla Parish serves as associate producer.
Julia Stannard is producer and John Strickland is the director. Emma Reeves and
Reg Gadney wrote the teleplay.

Online on LifetimeTV.com, the channel is serving up clips
from the interview as well additional broadband video, including remembrances
from women on Princess Diana's legacy.