■ The TV industry will never recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Advertising and pay-TV subscription fees have been the twin engines driving the growth of media companies for decades and now both are failing.
- Get ready for fewer new scripted shows and more cheap reality on pay-TV, and more of everything else on the internet.
■ FOX News (StarSat 261) insiders part of a "real resistance" inside the rightwing American channel; no-one in control at FOX News; FOX News management "afraid of the news"; uncomfortable staffers worried about the damage being done.
■ Alison Sweeney returning to her role of Sami Brady in Days of Our Lives seen on e.tv.
■ ViacomCBS is launching its Paramount+ video streaming service through the OSN pay-TV operator in the Middle East and North Africa.
■ Rose McGowan slams Alyssa Milano for making Charmed "toxic AF":
"You threw a fit in front of the crew, yellig 'They don't pay me enough to do this s-!' I cried every time we got renewed because you made that set toxic."
■ New Pandemic: Covid-19 in Africa documentary series to broadcast on M-Net Movies Zone (DStv 139) every 3 weeks.
■ Grey's Anatomy, This is Us, The Good Doctor, NCIS: New Orleans, The Resident, Shameless:
Why are so many American TV drama series now planning to do Covid-19 episodes?
■ Can Ellen DeGeneres' "be kind" brand survive her not-so-nice scandal?
■ Yep, he's gay: Slipping into bed with the former SABC2 Eastern Mosaic presenter Imraan Vagar.
■ Staggering R22 million legal bill for the SABC for disciplinary hearings of the South African public broadcaster.
■ Has the great "re-bundling" arrived?
As pay-TV moves from bundling TV channels to streaming services, guess what's happening in the "second phase of bundling" ...
■ In America video streaming consumption has doubled during the Covid-19 pandemic - driven by Netflix.
■ Netflix's Selling Sunset real estate reality series hit by allegations that it's fake.
■ In an accidentally "DO NOT POST" tweet Disney+ accidentally tweets it and reveals that it plans to launch on 17 November in Brazil and Latin America.
■ KwaZulu-Natal premier, Sihle Zikalala, hilariously claims that eNCA (DStv 403) anchor and reporter Shahan Ramkissoon "disrespected" and "belittled" him during a live broadcast.
■ Netflix's new "Shuffle Play" button designed to rot brains (subscription required).
■ Islamic TV station ITV (DStv 347) shook by court claims of alleged financial wrongdoing, including thousands paid for family wedding and legal fees of provisionally sequestrated founder (subscription required).
■ Ellen Pompeio of Grey's Anatomy, seen on M-Net (DStv 101), on watching herself age from 33 to 50 on TV across 17 seasons: "It's not so fun. It's ..."
■ A live-action series of The Powerpuff Girls is in the works based on the original Cartoon Network (DStv 301) animation series.
■ British television's racism problem laid bare in blistering address at 2020 Edinburgh TV festival.
■ Netflix could lose 2 million subscribers quarterly ... without new content.
