TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read - 23 October 2020.

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

■ Bloodbath at the South African public broadcaster while SABC executives keep their cushy jobs. (subscription required)

There's panic under SABC staffers after executives have downgraded all significant positions and classified 95 personnel as redundant as part of cost-cutting. Heads of news in regions had been sent down to regional news editors, while the executive producers, currently at scale 130, were downgraded to scale 300 as programme producers.

■ SABC3's Expresso presenter and Outsurance TV commercial star Katlego Maboe admits to cheating on partner who allegedly got a sexually-transmitted disease after his illicit hotel sex with another woman: "I was unfaithful".

- Cardova Productions drops Katlego Maboe from Expresso on SABC pending investigation.

- Outsurance removes all Katlego Maboe TV ads "as soon as possible".

■ Former Netflix showrunner reveals "there's a real frustration" over Netflix cancellations and behind-the-scenes shifts at the video streamer.

■ Minorities and women remain shut out in Hollywood, behind-the-scenes it's still mainly white and male - university research.

■ eNCA (DStv 403) silent after complaints with Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA) over presenter Karima Brown allegedly calling advocate Andrew Chauke a "corrupt element within the NPA" and part of the "Zuma cabal".

■ In America, NBC News slams Fox News (StarSat 261) and its Tucker Carlson for "dangerously and dishonestly" targeting one of its reporters.

■ Why YouTube took down and blocked the Arise TV News channel's live stream coverage of the #EndSARS public protests in Nigeria.

■ SAFA president Danny Jordaan crying in a spat with SuperSport and thinks SuperSport is siding with his old enemy the PSL when it comes to its sports coverage policy.