Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:
■ Sexual predator Harvey Weinstein over the weekend begged:
"I am desperate for your help," he wrote to Hollywood executives in a private email, "my board is thinking of firing me".
- Harvey Weinstein's name dropped from the credits from all shows; TWC (The Weinstein Company) even considering a total name change to try and save the production and distribution company.
- Another actress comes forward to say Harvey Weinstein humiliated her in a London hotel room wearing only a bathrobe.
- MUST READ: The New Yorker on how rapist Harvey Weinstein sexually abused women.
- Awkward as Ronan Farrow tells Rachel Maddow why NBC News passed and apparently didn't want to do his Harvey Weinstein story.
- Also tells how he was personally threatened with a lawsuit by Harvey Weinstein.
- NBC insiders are livid that NBC News president Noah Oppenheim killed the Harvey Weinstein story.
- Fascinating article from The Guardian in which 20 of Hollywood's high-profile actors and directors remain silent and go "no comment" when asked to speak about Harvey Weinstein.
- Stupid Donna Karan dig herself a hole by responding that "women are asking for it".
- Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelie Jolie say Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted them.
- Yet another woma, Louisette Geiss, shares a Harvey Weinstein masturbating story.
- At The Weinstein Company (TWC) staffers "are reeling"; TWC future now in doubt.
■ Hilarie Burton says Ben Affleck groped her on MTV's TRL in 2003.
"I was a kid," said Hilarie Burton.
■ If you watch 1 of these 4 types of TV shows,
you're highly likely to be a narcissist.
■ 2017's TV lessons:
"In the age of Trump comfort food TV is working".
■ And another take on the same theme: The Golden Age of Sad TV.
■ Swaziland's state-controlled TV, Swazi TV, censors a public protest.
Two Swazi TV reporters went to go and cover the public protest by government workers but the Swazi TV CEO summoned them and killed the story.
■ Oprah Winfrey went to the bank for the first time in 29 years
to deposit a $2 million cheque. (And reveals she doesn't have an ATM PIN).
■ Kwesé TV has applied for a possible pay-TV licence in Swaziland.
Asked the Swaziland Communication Commission (SCCOM) in 2016 already for a licence. The excuse for Swaziland's delay as with everything to do with the country's struggling TV industry - is this time "the absence of a licensing framework".
■ "Don't end up disappointed" by TStv.
Nigeria's new pay-TV operator busy with fraud and lying about TV channels and content it didn't acquire legally has "undertones" that's disturbing. and TStv "should also stop making false promises to would-be subscribers".
■ Riverdale showrunner promises a "sexier" second season with more drama and danger.
The second season will continue right after the shooting of Archie's dad.
■ In Zimbabwe, CBZ also pulls the plug on DStv Zimbabwe payments for MultiChoice Zimbabwe.
■ With Marvel's Inhumans now also on TV as a new drama series on M-Net (DStv 101)
the question is asked how many Marvel series is too many?
■ Millennials are at odds with their parents over binge-watching TV.
Older people strill watch TV the traditional way, while young adults watch Netflix, Amazon and streaming services.
