Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:
■ The Haggard State of the SABC is not by Fluke or Accident or Coincidence.
My new Huffpost South Africa column on who benefits from a rudderless SABC that continues to limp along.
■ SHOCKER!: How MultiChoice Uganda workers allegedly defrauded DStv Uganda subscribers for a year by over-charging them in forex fraud.
In a shocking revelation, MultiChoice Uganda agents would receive payment from DStv Uganda subscribers in shillings, then allegedly go to a foreign exchange bureau, change it to dollars and post dollars on the MultiChoice Uganda system and retain the balance.
MultiChoice Uganda publicist Tina Wamala has no comment.
■ Reprehensible Star Trek: Discovery on Netflix has lost its soul.
Star Trek: Discovery characters are lame and don't even try; male privilege is alive in the future; and the "Starfleet" officer Tyler is played by Shazad Latif who apparently also plays the albino Klingon Voq, meaning Voq is infiltrating Starfleet looking like a human.
- Filthy Star Trek: Discovery suddenly drops F-words no longer making it a show a family can watch. Did Star Trek: Discovery really need to include F-words?How does profanity trash play on Star Trek: Discovery? "Not so great".
- Is Star Trek: Discovery going too far with the animal cruelty?
- Star Trek: Discovery "embraces gay romance" with first gay couple.
- Star Trek: Discovery coldly goes where better Star Trek has gone before.
- Star Trek: Discovery's trashy changes to Klingon canon is the worst part about this show.
■ Scientologists wants advertisers to withdrew from Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath.
Cult members have been writing letters but apparently it's not working.
- The second season of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath will start on Crime+Investigation (DStv 170) on Wednesday 18 October, much sooner following America, than the first season.
■ Netflix continues its strong international growth.
Netflix adds 850 000 new United States streaming customers in the 3rd quarter and 4.45 million new international sign-ups as part of strong international growth to push the total to 56.48 million.
- Netflix content budget might grow to a staggering $8 billion in 2018.
- "We are growing nicely across the world."
- "Our future largely lies in exclusive original content".
- Netflix plans to release 80 original films in 2018.
■ NBC fires the staffer who leaked the tape of filth-mouth MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell berating staff.
The leaker was fired after all that hammering that made Lawrence goes crazy.
■ Kevin James reveals why he killed off his TV wife in Kevin Can't Wait seen on M-Net (DStv 101).
"We were just running out of ideas. The plot of the show didn't have enough drive" he says as to why Donna was killed off in the sitcom and replaced with his former King of Queens co-star Leah Remini.
■ British TV and film are rife with sexual bullying.
