Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:
■ Messy Bessie.
SABC acting chief operating officer (COO) Bessie Tugwana is one of top SABC executives embroiled in extremely dodgy deals of millions of rand now under investigation by the Special Investigative Unit (SIU).
Other SABCers embroiled in the money wasting mess are the suspended head of sports, Sully Motsweni; manager in the office of the SABC CFO, Thandeka Ndlovu; and Marcia Mahlalela, strategy and planning manager in the SABC Sports division.
■ MUST READ: 10 things TStv should have done differently before it tried to launch.
Incredibly insightful and spot-on article with 10 excellent points as to why TStv in Nigeria is probably going to fail.
- TStv hype turned out to be a fake flash in the pan.
- What will happen to failure-to-launch TStv after the arrival of Kwesé Nigeria since "TStv is having too much suspicion around them as to their credibility"?
- Kwesé TV Nigeria launches while TStv that made a lot of noise has no decoders to sell.
- Nigerian xenophobia against DStv and MultiChoice Nigeria while TStv is actually responsible for it's own mess and failure to launch.
■ Star Trek fans shocked by profane Star Trek: Discovery's F-bombs and should Star Trek use the F-word?
- Is Star Trek: Discovery on Netflix about to copy the Tribble Kingon twist from "Trouble with Tribbles"?
- Jason Isaacs reveals the chaotic nature of Star Trek: Discovery scripts and script changes.
- What the hell is Star Trek: Discovery; spending time with these characters feels like a drag.
■ Netflix settles with a former executive who accuses Netflix of "tolerating harassment and discrimination".
■ Actress Sean Young says sex predator Harvey Weinstein pulled his penis out of his pants before her.
"You know, Harvey, I really don't think you should be pulling that thing out, it's not very pretty."
■ Actress Heather Kerr says sex predator Harvey Weinstein forced himself on her.
Unzipped his pants, pulled out his penis, grabbed her hand, forced it onto his organ, and held it there.
■ Mickael Chemloul, former chauffeur of sweaty "The Pig" Harvey Weinstein reveals the sex predator's filth.
Kept condoms in the car, binged on sugar before orgies, fury when prostitutes didn't show, raped women in cars and hotels, fed so much at Naomi Campbell's party his gastric band burst.
■ How sex predator Harvey Weinstein exploited the fashion industry as a pipeline to get models.
Project Runway also used to funnel young models to the abuser.
■ Blaise Godbe Lipman accuses APA agent Tyler Grasham of getting him drunk and sexual assaulting him. Film and TV editor Lucas Ozarowski says Tyler Grasham groped him.
The APA agency suspends Tyler Grasham and then fires him over the sexual abuse claims.
- The star of Netflix's Stranger Things, Finn Wolfhard, dumps APA.
- The Disney Channel's (DStv 303) Descendants actor Cameron Boyce is also done with APA.
- Several complaints over Tyler Grasham "hip-pocketing" teenage actors.
■ People in Northern Ireland urged (by the TV Licensing Department!) to turn their TV Licence papers into origami - like paper swans.
■ StarTimes is an embarrassing no-show at the press conference of the sport it sponsors.
Akorfa Dnajkui, StarTimes marketing manager in Ghana is embarrassingly missing without an excuse.
■ Oppressive Mauritania government shuts down all TV stations.
except the state broadcaster, TVM.
Mauritania's five privately owned news stations - Dava, Sahel TV, Chinguitt, al-Watania and Al-Mourabitoun TV - are all shut down amidst civil unrest in the country on orders of the Mauritanian Radio and Television Broadcast Authority.
