TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read - 7 November 2020.

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

■ In America the news media waits and waits and waits to make a historic winner call in that country's 2020 presidential election.

- Ad pressure mounts, rifts emerge inside Fox News (StarSat 261) over America's 2020 presidential election coverage.

- Stephen Colbert chokes up over Donald Trump's speech.

- TikTok is swooning over a new kind of celebrity: election analysts.

-Fox News (StarSat 261) hits a dangerous new low as it chooses to mislead American viewers about the state of that country's election.

- The passion on American TV news is great viewing. But be careful what you wish for.

- "My nerves can't take the American election, so I'm watching the Discovery Channel (DStv 122)."

- Shame, Gareth Cliff seen on eNCA (DStv 403) isn't happy with the American election results.

- 4 years too late America's TV establishment puts Donald Trump on mute.

- How reality caught up with the reality TV president.

- Ivanka Trump getting more reality TV offers "than she has ever received in her life".

- MUST WATCH: "Never do maths on national television" - Reporters all over trying to do calculations on live TV.

- Nate Silver meltdown after another yet American polling disaster.

FiveThirtyEight website slammed after way-off election predictions.

■ The teen who won America's election night.

Teenage son of Pennsylvania's attorney-general Josh Shapiro accidentally crashes his dad's live TV news interview. Watch the "slowly backing out" here.

■ "What a profitable day": CNN International (DStv 401) pushes vapid promos to fill its empty advertising inventory to a maximum degree during 2020 American election coverage. Viewers going crazy over the insanely repetitive and "deranged" Richard Quest ad running through a maze.

■ MUST MUST READ: The media's thin line between reporting and enabling, when opinion has become cheaper than news gathering.

■ Absolutely tone-deaf: MultiChoice Nigeria holding its first-ever DStv Golf Day in Lagos; relaxing tee-off on green lawns for the rich who can win a business class ticket to Dubai while struggling country is going through hell.

■ Warner Bros. fires wife-beater Johnny Depp from Fantastic Beasts film franchise.

■ Strictly Come Dancing seen on BBC Brit (DStv 120) difficult to film without a live studio audience.

■ Rachel Maddow off MSNBC (StarSat 263) after possible Covid-19 exposure.

■ Boba Fett could be getting his own TV drama series spin-off on Disney+ following Star Wars: The Mandalorian appearance.

■ Saudi Arabia soap opera heralds a new era for Middle East regional TV drama.

■ Disney pulls the last of its planned 2020 film releases from the year's cinema release slate.

■ The rise and fall of pay-TV in America.

Digital video streaming has had a significant effect on pay-TV, in the same way pay-TV had on broadcast TV decades ago - meaning lower ratings.

■ How 2020 changed children's television.

■ Skip it: Netflix's amateurish Nigerian film Citation filled with awkwardly staged drama.

■ Media in Tanzania unable to cover the Covid-19 pandemic because of news blackout.

■ The number 1 task of Merlin Naicker who took over at SABC "ghost town" from 1 April 2020 as broadcaster's head of TV: "Bring back the  audience numbers, and that really brings back the advertisers".