Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:
■ Disney, Sky and Netflix are the best of Frenemies.
Sky's pay-TV boss reveals - just like the case is with MultiChoice's DStv - an initial nervousness over allowing Netflix onto its Sky Q pay-TV service.
■ Ellen DeGeneres - Th evil stepmother of American daytime TV.
■ Woman tries to steal a 165 cm flatscreen TV set.
■ Love on the spectrum - a dating show that celebrates autism.
■ How I found my female legal mentors on TV.
■ As TV evolves, so too does the scale and scope of innovation.
■ Netflix's Indian Matchmaking misses the full story on arranged marriages.
- Triggers debate. - Doctor Who's Mandip Gipp slams the show over its portrayal of colourism.
-Viewers slam show as a "cesspool of casteims, colourism, sexism and classisim".
■ The 5th season of The Crown will only start in 2022.
How to shoot a TV sex scene during Covid-19 - cue the mannequins.
■ How Hollywood accidentally built Netflix.
■ Let the Game of Thrones Video Streaming Wars begin.
With the launch of Peacock in the United States, there is now Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Disney+, HBO Max, Quibi, Hulu and a few other video streaming services. Now we'll see - literally - who survives.
- Psst: Long-term success will be determined by the user experience (UE) - the way in which and experience viewers have in discovering and controlling the content.
■ How the on-screen depiction of romance is changing in Korea's "K-dramas" and disappointing viewers.
It has to do with ... marriage.
■ When did reality TV get so sexual?
■ How far is too far? The most-complained and disgusting TV commercials of the past decade in the United Kingdom and Australia.
■ The traditional linear TV business tries to adapt ...
... left managing a melting ice-cube while they adapt operations for a video streaming future.
■ StarTimes Nigeria to add DreamWorks animation TV channel in September.
■ CAN (Christian Association of Nigeria) declares that M-Net's 5th season of Big Brother Naija on MultiChoice's DStv is evil.
■ Were the flashback scenes in the American drama series This Is Us seen on M-Net (DStv 101) filmed years in advance?
■ MultiChoice launches Enhanced Decoder Notification (EDN) for DStv decoders across Africa.
The new functionality adds icons that display different types of notifications on the Live TV screen
