Here's the latest news about TV that I read, and that you should too:
■ "Haunting, chilling, peerless, plausible." How The Handmaid's Tale changed television.
Everybody is now buzzing about the drama that won the best Emmy. South Africans haven't been able to watch it - and still can't.
- The Handmaid's Tale win validates online video streaming services as an equal competitor to traditional TV.
- M-Net (DStv 101) will finally start to show it - a month and a half from now on 30 October. South Africans likely would perhaps have seen it sooner already if M-Net and DStv didn't dump the M-Net Edge channel at the beginning of the year.
- Shonda Rhimes calls the Emmys "embarrassing".
■ The Murdoch's global television ambitions.
The Murdochs is interested in taking over pay-TV broadcaster Sky in the United Kingdom, but they and their 21th Century FOX have their sights on much larger, international TV goals - specifically India. And they want Europe, South America, Africa and Australia.
■ FOX News (StarSat 261) accused of blacklisting.
■ Poor SABC says it can't afford to broadcast all national sports matches.
■ "Patriotic" American TV shows are falling out of favour in the rest of the world.
American TV studios now deliberately toning down the over-done "America first" tone of dramas.
■ New video takes viewers behind-the-scenes of the new Star Trek: Discovery.
But it's not available to viewers in South Africa and Africa - although the show will be made available on Netflix Africa and South Africa from the end of this month.
■ Zambia tries to assure Zambians that StarTimes' decoders are safe.
Subscribers are also complaining about the bad video and sound quality of StarTimes channels - something that TopStar admits.
