Monday, August 17, 2020

TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read - 17 August 2020.


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


■ Meghan Markle and Prince Harry using money from her Suits reruns on Netflix to pay of their new Santa Barbara home.

■ Selling Sunset's Jason Oppenheim slams Netflix, says he feels Netflix duped him over the nature of the reality show.

■ Ellen DeGeneres called out over video showing her berating ayoung translator.

■ The British soap Hollyoaks starts a guardian scheme to address racism.



■ Even cows are better represented on Australian television than the country's diverse population.
"Who gets to tell Australian stories?" report finds shocking lack of on-air diversity in Australia's TV news industry.
"You can't be what you can't see."


■ How MultiChoice's Showmax video streaming service deliberately bans and blocks gay content in Nigeria and Kenya.

■ Nigeria continues its relentless attack on MultiChoice; country wants to tell a private firm to stop increasing its prices, wants to force it to introduce a hysterical non-existent "pay-per-view", and wants to take away pay-TV operator's exclusive content rights.

■ Why the rich and famous are fleeing Hollywood.

■ State TV staff in Belarus join strikes and country's growing public protest.

■ Marge Simpson of The Simpsons tels the Donald Trump campaign to stop the name calling.

■ The fired Diamond & Silk slams FOX News (StarSat 261) after they got axed, saying Fox News has "a racist double-standard in giving them the boot for saying the same things its white stars regularly claim" (subscription required).

■ In India TV anchors encourage cockfights on television.
News readers decided their role is no longer to educate but to belittle people with views different from theirs.

■ A new Rolling Stone long-read: How FOX News (StarSat 261) kills the truth.

■ Trouble for New Zealand's existing pay-TV operators like Sky when Disney launches its video streaming service and keeps its content.

■ Netflix's controversial Indian Matchmaking will change in an important way if there's a second season.

■ Sky is done and getting out of pay-TV in Spain.

■ UEFA is looking for a new anti-piracy service provider to protect its sports content.

■ Ryan Reynolds trolls by launching a video streaming service ... playing just one movie - but it's free.

■ European media groups should consolidate in the video streaming era.