Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:
■ MUST READ. "I was on a British TV diversity scheme - and saw why they don't change anything."
■ Hamilton, The Simpsons, and the problem with colourblind casting.
Animated shows are finally moving away from letting white actors play characters of colour. But even well-intentioned efforts at increasing diversity create complications.
■ Lithuania bans Russia's propaganda TV channel RT (DStv 407).
Follows Latvia and Baltic countries who sees Russia Today as a Kremlin propaganda tool aiming to influence the region’s ethnic Russian minority.
■ MultiChoice continues to fall even further and further behind with its DStv Explora decoder as Sky launches massive decoder upgrade.
Sky's Sky Q in the United Kingdom announces a raft of feature improvements for its decoder with an even better user interface (UI), so-called "show centres" where every TV show will now have a go-to destination for every available episode; and with all seasons, episodes, recordings, broadcast schedules and on-demand links together in one place.
■ Amazon Prime Video will finally offer one of Netflix's most basic and desired features.
Subscribers can now create different user profiles for multiple people sharing an Amazon Prime subscription to maintain separate watch histories and watch lists - along with parental controls.
■ Uganda censorship continues as Urban TV's Scoop on Scoop show is yanked from the air.
The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) got complaints that the shallow gossip show presented by Tina Fierce is "abusive, demeaning and inciting; opinionated and not attributed to any reliable source".
■ Peak Comfort TV.
Coronavirus and political anxiety in the United States have accelerated the shift toward comfort TV.
■ Blow-up dolls for The Bold and the Beautiful sex scenes.
Because of Covid-19 the American daytime soap is now using life-like dummies for intimate on-camera sex scenes where actors have to look like they're "in the throes of passion".
