“The Duke of Sussex has announced a collaboration with Oprah Winfrey, as the pair work together on a mental health documentary series for Apple,” Hannah Furness reports for The Telegraph. “The duo will work as ‘co-creators and executive producers’ on a series the Duke promises will be ‘positive, enlightening and inclusive,’ offering viewers the chance to ‘understand ourselves and those around us better.'”
“Last month, [Winfrey] appeared on stage at the launch of Apple TV Plus, announcing she was working on two forthcoming series which would reach the millions of people around the world with an iPhone,” Furness reports. “The Duke is understood to have requested the company make a donation to mental health charities instead of receiving a fee.”
The new Apple TV+ series “follows the work of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry into mental health over the last few years, with their Heads Together initiative,” Furness reports. “Prince Harry has also undertaken work on the mental health of military veterans with the Invictus Games Foundation and the Endeavour Fund.
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Looking for inspiration from the likes of dim witted British royals, and SJWs?
Good for them! I hope it’s extremely successful.
Typical SJW lingo: ‘positive, enlightening and inclusive’. Cannot imagine Steve Jobs approving such touchy feely garbage.
The Harry O Show…?
The Winfrey Crown Jewels?
Live with Regent and Catastrophe???
Oprah, Eddy Cue, and Prince Harry.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, Apple.
The mission statement for this quasi-expose documentary is heartfelt, positive, full of reformist hope so it’s laudatory, and it’s ushered by the likable-enough personalities of Oprah and Harry. If the show oozes compassion or if it consists of instances of mental problems and then wallowing in them, I am not interested. If it reports on actual solutions I am interested. If the solutions are based on current conventional, pill pushing corporate medicine which merely treats symptoms but does not heal the cause, however, I am not interested.
And I surely hope that it’s not preachy which, I think, Oprah gravitates toward. I would be interested only if the storylines were not documentaries because I already see enough of that in real life, but presented in escapist metaphors such as in Star Trek or in Twilight Zone.