Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:
■ MUST READ: The cringey rush to defend Ellen DeGeneres.
The power dynamics of how and why it's so difficult to hold powerful people accountable when other powerful people shield them and give them platforms.
■ Hollywood has increasingly started to censor itself in order to keep China happy.
Changing scripts, deleting scenes and altering other content as America's film and TV industry fears offending Chinese censors who control the gateway to the country's 1.4 billion consumers.
■ MultiChoice says DStv is providing the best content during the Covid-19 lockdown.
■ Is the real estate reality show Selling Sunset on Netflix real or scripted?
Viewers don't think the glamour and gossip are real.
■ "Stay Tuned": The 1992 film in which a couple is sucked into an alternate reality world where they have to survive the one TV show after another is turned into a TV series.
■ Uganda's Magic1 TV channel says it has nothing to do with the "replica" Magic 1HD that popped up on StarTimes.
■ Grey's Anatomy seen on M-Net (DStv 101) will start production soon on season 17 - with Covid-19 pandemic changes.
■ DStv subscribers in Zambia are unhappy about MultiChoice Zambia's latest price hike of DStv and GOtv.
■ The Good Doctor seen on M-Net (DStv 101) will kick off its 4th season with a Covid-19 coronavirus storyline.
- The SHOCKING production stand-off behind the scenes of The Good Doctor in Vancouver where the entire crew got fired: In-fighting between unions over testing for Covid-19 led to pre-production being put on hold.
■ Pumping men's buttocks.
The male characters in the BBC's Harlots are largely reduced to pumping buttocks with hypocritical heads attached.
■ Amazon Prime Video is working in introducing a "random episode" button.
■ Making TV shows during the Covid-19 pandemic requires more money and time.
■ Anti-heroes disrupted TV. Now they're the status quo.
■ How do they track the golf ball on television during a golf broadcast?
■ The BBC received 18 600 complaints from viewers after reporter used the "N"-word racial slur in her news report.
