Thursday, January 31, 2019

TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read from TVwithThinus - 31 January 2019.


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

■ Moon and Me on CBeebies: The new baby TV show from the genius behind Teletubbies.

■ TopStar, the joint digital terrestrial television (DTT) venture between China's StarTimes and Zambia's public broadcaster, expands the signal coverage of local Zambian TV channels carried on the service.

■ After having bought the Scripps channels, Discovery is starting to take shows that used to be on Scripps channels to put them on channels like Discovery Channel.

■ Amazon Prime Video silent after Will Young slams The Grand Tour and Jeremy Clarkson over homophobic stereotyping.

■ A record number of people are streaming TV worldwide - up 89% year-on-year.

■ Almost half of the kids in the United Kingdom prefer YouTube over traditional TV.

■ Kenya warns: That TV set in your home could be fake.

■ How even Ellen got bored of The Ellen Degeneres Show seen on VUZU (DStv 116).

■ 9 TV shows that survived the death of a main character.

■ The One about Friends still being most popular.

■ New set photo from first live-action Star Wars series shows a classic droid making an appearance.

■ Zambia's ruling Patriotic Front (PF) political party bans Prime TV reporters from its press conference.
Prime TV director Gerald Shiwa calls the PF's disgusting censorship of media undemocratic.


■ Australia should be "banned" from having breakfast TV until the country can learn to use it responsibly.
"Four hours of infomercials disguised as regular segments and topical discussions from people with juuust enough charisma to appear on television but not enough to appear on TV at times that people actually watch it."


■ Reality star horrifies British viewers when she, well, accidentally poops on television.