Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:
■ Mexican soap actor slaps TV reporter through the face in a red carpet interview.
Aggressive telenovela star Eduardo Yanez suddenly turns physically violent and assaults Paco Fuentes.
■ Kate Beckinsale says sexual predator and rapist Harvey Weinstein couldn't remember if he had sexually assaulted her or not".
■ Dawson's Creek star James van der Beek has had his "ass grabbed by powerful, older men".
"I’ve had them corner me in inappropriate sexual conversations when I was much younger".
■ More groping allegations emerge against Ben Affleck.
■ "Horrific" Jason Momoa joked that he gets to rape beautiful women in Game of Thrones.
■ "You will love my dick," Roy Price, Amazon's programming boss said to TV producer.
Isa Hackett, a producer on Amazon Prime Video's Man in the High Castle is making her claim of sexual harassment public. Amazon is utterly silent on what it did regarding Roy Price and the sex harassment claim that she reported to Amazon.
■ Rose McGowan: Harvey Weinstein raped me. Again Amazon is silent.
- Accuses Jeff Bezos and Amazon of a massive cover-up who cancelled her TV series.
- Amazon suspends Roy Price who is abruptly put on "leave of absence".
■ Has anyone in Hollywood fallen faster than Harvey Weinstein?
Star doing red carpet premieres suddenly asked hard questions about sexual harassment instead of the usual softball questions.
■ Harvey Weinstein checks into a luxury 5-star resort after jetting out of LA in a private jet.
He lied about doing rehab in Europe and wants to go somewhere where he can use his cell phone like the Arizona resort with a spa and golf course.
- New TIME does "producer, predator, pariah" Harvey Weinstein cover.
- The Weinstein Company (TWC) near the brink as talent agencies abruptly cut off their talent supply.
■ Remember when Nikki Finke reported Harvey Weinstein's harassment of a man on his deathbed? Referenced his "disgusting behaviour".
- Remember when Nikki Finke told of how Harvey Weinstein ordered her into a "windowless room" and screamed at her for 90 minutes?
■ Peaky Blinders seen on BBC First (DStv 119) is dumping The Weinstein Company (TWC) from the credits.
■ Valor, Seal Team, Shooter: The tropes and "triggers" of the new bunch of American military TV dramas.
- And Riverdale is subverting every "mean girl" TV trope with the Cheryl Blossom character.
■ Australian free-to-air viewers lose The Simpsons and Modern Family.
The struggling Ten is done and out of a deal with 21th Century Fox studios.
■ The SABC is now looking for tenders to bid to become the SABC's service provider for the digital file delivery of content.
■ How those fake TV shows seen inside shows are made.
From This is Us and Insecure - the how, and why, and what of these meta-shows inside series.
■ SABC staff morale is at an all-time low.
Move the slider and listen from minute 13:28 to 17:30.
Bemawu president Hannes du Buisson tells 702: "SABC staff are really, really, very, very low on morale at this point in time" and that SABC staffers "are fed up".
■ Netflix responds to conspiracy theories over its $500 million investment in Canada.
- Meanwhile Netflix's content investment is increasingly international in nature - the international growth is it's secret weapon.
■ After Star Trek: Discovery said there won't be any canon changes it's filled with canon changes; producer says canon changes will be explained.
- As criticism over Star Trek: Discovery grow; producers plead with viewers to be patient.
- Star Trek: Discovery suffers from inconsistent storytelling.
- "Mess": Star Trek: Discovery fails to make its case.
- Star Trek: Discovery takes too long to get where it's going.
- Filming wrapped on first season on Wednesday; second season of Star Trek: Discovery looks likely.
■ The battle to keep arts on mainstream BBC television is shocking, says presenter.
Arts programmes on BBC condemned to a "vicious, Orwellian circle" of little watched platforms.
■ MUST READ: This week's Popbitch tells its like it is - scroll and read from "Blinded by the Lights":
Here's some excerpts:
"Does the principled entertainment journalist ignore these things and just get on with the job at hand?"
"It is these same reporters who could (and should) be breaking these types of stories. The journalists who are rubbing shoulders with the major players, the ones for whom Hollywood scandals are their bread and butter, should be at the forefront of this stuff. And yet they aren’t."
"The implied arrangement is that if you turn up to the Oscars as a guest of Miramax, or you get paid to host a junket at Cannes, or you get an exclusive sit-down interview with the star of a Weinstein vehicle, then you go easy. You don’t bite the hand that feeds you."
"Yet too many newspapers, magazines and journalists are unwilling (or unable) to forfeit the access. They can’t turn down the interviews, the parties, or the chance to get their upcoming book optioned by someone like Weinstein."
"If you’re a reporter attending Hollywood parties, if you’re spending your summer in Cannes, if you’re overseeing front page splashes and conducting double page interviews on movie stars and yet you have somehow managed to have never heard a single Weinstein rumour, pray tell: what the f- have you been doing?"
