Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:
■ Turns out that The Orville is better than Star Trek: Discovery.
Seth MacFarlane's "gushing valentine to Star Trek" is "everything Star Trek: Discovery is not: cheerful, pleasant to behold and with an emphasis on cerebral storytelling".
- The Orville has started to focus more on stories and is striking a better balance between story and humour.
- The Orville needs more episodes like episode 6 "Krill".
- With each episode The Orville starts to more deftly juxtapose comedy and social commentary.
■ Bloodied Boulevard: How the Harvey Weinstein sexual predator scandal exposed Hollywood's dirty secret.
Harvey Weinstein is just one example of a wider and current problem Hollywood deliberately ignores.
- Lawyer Lisa Bloom admits she was wrong to represent the sexual predator.
- Amazon Jeff Bezos says Roy Price is suspended "indefinitely" says Amazon is reviewing the two projects it has with The Weinstein Company.
- Australian actress Natalie Mendoza on how Harvey Weinstein groped her.
- Jane Fonda tells Amanpour on CNN International about Harvey Weinstein: "I'm ashamed I didn't say anything".
- MUST WATCH: Tina Brown on BBC Newsnight about Harvey Weinstein.
- MUST WATCH: Emma Thompson on BBC Newsnight slams Harvey Weinstein; insider revelations about showbiz.
■ Utter silence from the fashion industry on the sexual predator Harvey Weinstein scandal. Why?
■ MUST READ: Editor-at-large Kim Masters at The Hollywood Reporter details at the Columbia Journalism Review the threat legal letters she got in trying to report the sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein and Amazon's Roy Price and how The Hollywood Reporter didn't want her story.
■ MUST READ: Harvey Weinstein's fixer Fabrizio Lombardo says he didn't "hunt" for the sexual predator.
■ MUST READ: Pack of hyenas": How all those around Harvey Weinstein became the sexual predator's enablers.
"A system of abuse involving some of the most famous people on the planet, in which success was measured not in awards or fame or box office revenue, but in silence".
■ Amazon is spending billions on Amazon Prime Video and investors need more clarity on what Amazon plans to get out of it.
"Amazon doesn't seem to have a coherent strategy for what programming it should be serving up".
■ Namibian citizens furious over Namibia's Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) that wants to "force" them to pay TV licenses.
Growing storm as Namibians vent their fury over Namibia's public broadcaster that doesn't have a right to force them to pay for a TV set that doesn't belong to them. Namibians slam the National Broadcasting Corporation to improve its pathetic programming.
■ YouTube lifts its restrictions on banning Swaziland's bare breast dancers.
Reed dance videos no longer blocked after afterbare-breasted women protest: "My breasts are not inappropriate".
■ The shocking implosion of Cricket South Africa's T20GL.
South Africa's national embarrassment after Cricket South Africa (CSA) and Haroon Lorgat messed up the empty promise of the T20 Global League, the SABC's "contribution" to that, how CSA demanded enormous fees from SuperSport, and how whatever broadcast deals might be made in future will be for much smaller amounts.
■ After Syfy cancelled Dark Matter the plan was for MGM to pick it up for a Stargate cross-over.
The science fiction drama series seen on The Universal Channel (DStv 117) was abruptly cancelled a few months ago.
The plan was to do a 4th season on the new Stargate Command streaming service and to link the show to the Stargate franchise. Unfortunately the contracts for the production's sets and cast members ran out because the deal-making took to long, so theres no chance of a fourth season for Dark Matter.
■ What kind of journalism should the BBC do and not do?
"There have always been issues and events that the BBC is less likely to cover than its commercial news rivals".
■ Game of Thrones led to a surge of subscribers for Sky in the United Kingdom.
Dragons brought the pay-TV customers to the yard.
■ MultiChoice Nigeria dragged to court over allegedly showing a Yoruba film it didn't have the rights to.
DStv Nigeria says it bought and showed the Yoruba soap operas Ayeloja, Owo ida and Ofin as 26-episode series it acquired from Frank Dallas Communications but never showed the film Aroni Rogun Matidi.
