TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read - 17 October 2020.

 

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

■ "We followed his furled umbrella": The TV critic who dressed for success.

- British showbiz journalist and award-winning TV critic Herbert Kretzmer dead at 95.

■ The new American TV series made during and about the Covid-19 pandemic will be a fascinating first draft of American pop culture history - even if they have mixed results.

■ Heard the one of the NBC CNN lover who got whispered state secrets by her ambassador during their extra-marital affair?
Britain's former ambassador in America, Kim Darroch leaked to his secret lover, the former NBC CNN (DStv 403) Michelle Kosinski correspondent all kinds of government and White House secrets to the consternation of the United States.

- He quit his job in July 2019; she left CNN 5 months later.

■ HBO Max and Disney+ are fast catching up to Netflix in the video streaming service wars.

■ Ghana's government arrests journalist David Tamakloe with fake charges.

■ Don't expect answers or resolutions early in the new 4th season of The Good Doctor seen on M-Net (Dstv 101).

■ Rose McGowan responds after the starlet of the new Charmed reboot Sarah Jefferey called the original Charmed cast "pathetic": "I honestly had no idea who you were".

- Shannen Doherty, Alyssa Milano and Holly Marie Combs are responding as well.

■ The Witcher on Netflix added a bizarre plot so that it could be different from Harry Potter.

■ Disney+ now adds disclaimers before certain of its films to acknowledge racist stereotypes and the harmful impact it has.

■ Why TV's portrayal of Muslims still falls short.

■ With a male stripper in charge, this might be a bridge too far for even reality TV.

■ Why Netflix wants to try and compete with Disney in the animation genre.

■ Why TV series like Amazon Prime Video's The Boys is destroying you.

■ New Zealand TV critic Diana Wichtel about TV: IIt's still useful - and watched" (subscription required).

■ Tanzania's communications regulator is used as a government censorship hammer before elections to stifle the media.

■ Women now represent more than half of the creative roles in Australia's TV & film industry as the gender balance keeps shifting.

■ The non-TV story of the day: What you dream about as a kid - 12-year old finds a dinosaur skeleton that palaeontologists call a significant discovery.