Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:
■ Gillian Anderson to play British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in the next season of The Crown on Netflix.
■ For marketers and advertisers: How to break your addiction to linear TV.
■ Teen Mom. Merlin. Everyone has a secret shame - shamelessly binge-watching terrible TV shows.
■ Thing runs out of house with flat-screen TV. Thing throws flat-screen into fire pit in anger oover sports broadcast.
■ 6 TV sex scenes that were a disaster off-camera.
■ Golden Globes Fiji water girl photobomber, Kelleth Cuthbert, translates her viral fame into a TV role.
She will appear on the CBS soap The Bold and the Beautiful.
■ What does Friends, Sex and the City, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, The Office and SpongeBob Squarepants have in common?
They're the most popular TV shows for people to learn English.
■ A letter from Africa: What it's like to report a terror attack in Africa as a TV news anchor.
Kenya's Waihiga Mwaura, a TV news anchor for Citizen TV, looks back at last week's horrific terror attack in Nairobi, Kenya.
■ Why Netflix's marketing costs exploded.
Winning a new customer in the United States now costs Netflix more than four times what it cost a few years ago in terms of marketing spend.
■ With interactive TV, every viewer is a showrunner now.
■ The most dramatic thing in Muvhango on SABC2 that can apparently be teased as an episodic highlight is the gun violence.
■ Guess how many subscribers plan to cancel after Netflix's latest price hike.
■ Inside the virgin Colton Underwood's dramatic journey long before The Bachelor.
■ Hilarious: British TV viewers are less likely to choose to waste the tea in Netflix's choose-your-own-adventure, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.
Netflix reveals that British viewers are statistically less likely to make the choice that Stefan throws tea over his computer, versus smashing it to pieces, compared to the rest of the world.
■ Clueless Sky News (DStv 402) reporter mistakes a fan for a soccer club manager on TV.
■ Qatar's beIN pay-TV operator published a dossier of evidence about how Saudi Arabia is stealing its sports content.
■ Viacom Africa doesn't bother sending a screener or link to press for its first local show on MTV (DStv 130) in order to preview or see its @Lasizwe: Fake It till you Make It reality show.
■ The troubling team behind CNN Brasil raising questions over the forthcoming TV news channel's credibility.
■ Zambia's postal service, Zampost, owes a lot of money to MultiChoice Zambia.
