Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:
■ MUST READ: August 2020 is the month that Old Hollywood finally died.
In the desperate aggressive race to transform into video streaming services as the golden rivers of money from pay-TV are drying up, get ready for a ruthless new culture, mass firings and upending everything in the brutal final scenes of "Hollywood" as we knew it.
■ Ellen DeGeneres fires 3 producers as she tries to salvage toxic talk show.
Executive producers Ed Glavin, Kevin Leman and Jonathan Norman all fired.
- Infamously cruel Ellen DeGeneres tells staffers in video conference call she vows to interact more with staffers, is introverted and has "good days and bad days".
- Insiders blame Telepictures and reveal how fired producers fostered a toxic culture:
"They allow people like Ellen the ability to do that because they are such a cash cow, they are basically printing money. They know these people are terrible, but they don't care."
■ Netflix is now terrible at email marketing.
■ In Tanzania's ferocious ongoing crackdown on press freedom and the media, Star Media, MultiChoice Tanzania and Azam Digital forced to apologise for broadcasting news for 7 days straight and fined.
■ Disney looks like it's done with Hulu when it comes to international streaming plans, and will now focus on Disney+ and launching its video-on-demand services internationally under the Star brand.
■ Google enhances search for live TV programming.
■ The planned Star Trek: Strange New Worlds spinoff will be more like the original series with episodic stories.
■ In Belarus hundreds of staffers go on strike ove censorship as viewers see empty studios on-air:
"If we can’t do honest journalism, then we won’t work."
■ What actually happens when a TV episode gets pulled?
■ The big hurdles facing America's TV industry because of Covid-19 as it gets ready for the 2020 fall TV season line-up.
- The advent of scripted coronavirus TV is here after months of widespread lockdowns and scripted shows filmed Covid-19 restrictions.
- Every new and returning 2020 fall TV show premiere.
■ How we made Flash Gordon.
■ Henry Cavill's curls as Sherlock Holmes in Enola Holmes.
■ Traditional television is still popular with kids in Canada.
■ American TV anchors allegedly threw a banana and fruit at a basketball player who wants an apology.
■ Video streaming watching habits may already have peaked.
■ New Zealand television accidentally shows rude bits when Naked Attraction plays in the newsroom background during a report.
