Friday, January 18, 2019

TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read from TVwithThinus - 18 January 2019.


Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:

■ Kit Harington hopes the ending of Game of Thrones seen on M-Net (DStv 101) "will change TV again".
"I think it's going to be extraordinary."

■ Stephen Colbert flies Mary Poppins into a Brexit apocalypse.

■ Dumping of locally produced trashy telenovelas on TV in Ghana is apparently dumping the country's film biz.

■ Netflix agrees to content code in India.
Netflix signed and agreed to follow a new industry code of conduct and self-regulation for online content in India but Amazon Prime Video refuses to go along with the self-censorship in India.

■ Star Trek: Discovery season 2 on Netflix: The "ultimate" guide.

■ Alcoholic Ant McPartlin, the one half of presenting duo with Dec Donnelly, returning to TV in the United Kingdom on Friday after another stint in rehab for Britain's Got Talent and presumably the other shows seen on ITV Choice (DStv 123) the two present.

■ Fake BBC News page used to promote a Bitcoin-themed con scheme.

■ Fox & Friends on Fox News (StarSat 261) is even worse with a studio audience.

■ Watch: Aaaaawkward interview on Sky News (DStv 402) with a British politician.

■ No Excuse, pay Papgeld show on Moja Love (DStv 157) the cause that soccer player Siyabonga Zulu was fired from Mamelodi Sundowns.

■ A listless army of zombie lads: Why The Grand Tour's studio audience seen on Amazon Prime Video had to go for the upcoming third season starting on Friday. 

■ How plane crash TV shows ruin your holidays.

■ Ellen Pompeo could be sticking with Grey's Anatomy seen on M-Net (DStv 101) for a little while longer.

■ A Dubai pay-TV operator adds Amazon Prime Video to its service for its subscribers through direct carrier billing.

■ How a mixed ecology is driving record investment in the United Kingdom's TV industry.

■ Remembering Babylon 5 - one of the smartest science fiction TV drama series 25 years after its debut.

■ Desperate plan from producers of Victoria, seen on ITV Choice (DStv 123), to sex up the drama and rescue it from low viewership by making sure the third season isn't another flop.

■ Netflix can continue to raise prices amid new competition.

■ Hugh Grant begs thieves who broke into his car to just bring stolen script back.