Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:
■ The hot new channel for reaching real people: email.
Frustrated by social media, businesses looking for an audience return to email.
■ WWE, seen on SuperSport, is feeling the perssure of declining TV ratings.
With fewer people watching wrestling falling viewership is something the company doesn't need now.
■ Meanwhile Formula 1, seen on SuperSport, saw its TV ratings rise in 2018.
■ 17 video games being adapted into TV shows or films.
■ How bad is the "sexposition" in the first season of Game of Thrones, seen on M-Net (DStv 101)?
The Emmy-winning "t*ts and dragons show" gets a lot of things right, but also wrong.
■ Why Netflix that notoriously never wanted to release viewership numbers has started doing that now.
■ And the big problem with Netflix's viewership numbers.
■ And Netflix says the game Fortnite steals more streams than HBO or anyone else in the fight for eyeballs.
■ Pammie running in high definition.
The remastered version of Baywatch in high definition (HD) is coming to Amazon Prime Video in the United States, Canada and Australia. No word on which streamer or broadcaster is South Africa is going to have it.
■ 20 things that make no sense about Star Trek: Discovery on Netflix.
■ Star Trek: Discovery had a red carpet media launch for its second season in New York - for its second season for a series on a streaming service.
Meanwhile South African shows and channels can't even manage or bother with a basic launch for the bulk of their local series on broadcast television.
■ Australia's gay community rejects the local Aussie version of the reality series Married at First Sight, seen in South Africa on Lifetime (DStv 131).
■ True Detective, seen on M-Net (DStv 101), embodies a new genre of TV that demands that you pay attention.
It's part of the new TV trend of "deep-dive television" that challenges viewers and demands their full attention.
■ Adam Boulton furious after Sky News (DStv 402) autocue blunder.
■ Two new types of streaming - live news and sports - will likely further erode traditional pay-TV subscriber numbers.
■ Shane Dawson returns to YouTube with dramatic conspiracy series trailer after the success of Jake Paul and Jeffree Star series.
■ When TV commercials get weird: Branded content and marketing on Chinese television has taken over so much that its ruining shows and alienating viewers from TV characters who are now shamelessly selling products.
■ Disney is already losing over $1 billion in streaming and its Disney+ streaming service hasn't even launched yet.
■ Announces 11 April as the date that Disney will show off Disney+ to investors as it tries to compete with Netflix.
■ Egyptian TV presenter sentenced to a year in jail for interviewing a gay man on television.
Mohamed al-Gheiti will also be under surveillance for a year after his prison sentence.
■ 7 abandoned movie and TV sets that are still standing years after the cameras stopped rolling.
Westworld, The Hunger Games, Jurassic Park, Star Wars ...
■ Co-stars Scott Grimes and Adrianne Palicki of The Orville, seen on FOX (DStv 125 / StarSat 131 / CellC black 201) are engaged.
■ A new path for Maori Television.
New TV station boss says making the TV channel "cool and relatable" is essential to the future of the language.
■ Fire damages MSNBC (StarSat 263) and Fox News (StarSat 261) studios in Washington.
