Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:
■ E! cancelled Keeping Up with the Kardashians after family's pay increase demands although ratings kept going down.
Wanted at least $40 million per season but E! couldn't keep paying the Kardashians the same or even more money for half as many viewers.
- Keeping Up with the Kardashians on E! (DStv 124) couldn't keep up with itself - why the reality show got cancelled.
- Kardashians: The reality TV family who reinvented fame.
- How Keeping Up with the Kardashians changed everything from beauty to celebrity.
■ Ellen DeGeneres was a terrible person in her mansion to household staff: Allegedly took pleasure in firing staffers, ran it military-style boot camp, tormented workers over misplaced salt shakers, would leave passive aggressive notes about what's wrong, would lay traps, says ex-staffer.
■ South African National Editors' Forum (SANEF) calls for investigation after EFF political party harassed reporter Nobesuthu Hejana TWICE.
■ Netflix subscribers upset over its 4K streaming quality.
■ Netflix CEO Reed Hastings: "Netflix isn't a media company or a technology company. It is an ..."
- Says Netflix bundling isn't an option (subscription required).
- Why Netflix will never have commercials.
■ Pearlena Igbokwe the new boss of NBCUniversal's global TV studio operations.
■ Netflix shocker: Bela Bajaria taking over to lead it's global TV operations with Cindy Holland exiting.
■ How MultiChoice's Showmax decides if and when a series will be acquired and placed on the video streaming platform.
■ Fox News style TV channel planned for the United Kingdom will only broadcasting during prime time, will have a comedy show.
■ Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death grips Indian with frenzied TV coverage.
- India's TV news serves up celebrity death coverage to distract from the country's Covid-19 disaster.
■ Disney will move allof the content of its linear Disney channels to its Disney+ video streaming service in the United Kingdom when it ends its linear channels there.
■ Will The Walking Dead seen on FOX (DStv 125 / StarSat 131) end like the comics did?
■ The hunt for new TV in 2020 brings a last gasp of new shows - and perhaps a shift in old habits.
■ Ukonwa Ojo the new chief marketing officer for Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Studios.
■ Streaming television can eventually replace pay-TV.
■ Black Mirror predicted what reality TV audiences would look like during the Covid-19 pandemic.
■ After 18 years off-air, the godfather of reality TV has revived his passion project.