Friday, August 14, 2020

TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read - 14 August 2020.


Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:


■ The Covid-19 pandemic will make the upcoming TV shows and fims look like nothing we've ever seen before.

■ After Selling Sunset, Netflix is doing another rip-off real estate series of Bravo's Million Dollar Listing with Million Dollar Beach House.

■ At WarnerMedia its streaming service HBO Max is the new golden child. Now WarnerMedia wants to create a new news streaming services like CNN and CNN International (DStv 401) but going directly to consumers instead of through pay-TV.

■ Series finale of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. seen on M-Net City (DStv 115) has an "emotional, happy ending".

■ As background: Apple hates Bloomberg, as in Hates - and has blocked its reporters from for instance attending iPhone launches. Bloomberg keeps scooping with Apple new, for instance this new report that Apple plans to launch "subscription bundles" for things like its Apple TV+ video streaming service.


■ Nick Viall says his "sex narrative" on The Bachelor was difficult to watch.
While virgin Bachelor Colton Underwood teases his reality TV comeback.
Host Chris Harrison replaced by JoJo Fletcher.
Leaving us all just trying to understand what's going on.


■ Meanwhile the Big Brother Naija 2020 housemate Nengi on DStv says she will have sex on the MultiChoice reality show if she wants in front of the cameras, as housemates complains that the condoms are being used up too quickly.

■ A look at the messy, complicated legacy of The Legend of Korra.

■ VICE is a failure in Europe and is starting to withdrawn its TV channels from across Europe after just 4 years (subscription required).

■ New Zealand's TV reporters mask up because of Covid-19 coronavirus - but it's tricky.

■ The reputation of Ellen DeGeneres is in freefall. Can she stop the bleeding?

■ So bad, they're brilliant: Why villains are the true stars of reality TV.

■ TV comedy in crisis: Why class snobbery in 2020 is leaving viewers alienated.