Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:
■ Must-see cheap production values: Doctor in an Indian medical drama series uses Scotch Brite scrubs as "defibrilators".
■ South Africa's hyped but disappointing Blood and Water on Netflix doesn't really reflect South African life.
Compared to the much better done better Grassroots on Mzansi Magic (DStv 161) that is much more nuanced.
■ Islamaphobic? Joy Reid on MSNBC (StarSat 263) has no apology over her "The way Muslims act" comment that sparked outrage, says her comments were misconstrued.
■ China's propaganda channel CGTN (DStv 409 / StarSat 266) has scrubbed its website and removed anything to do with its anchor Cheng Lei detained in China, and deleted videos and references to her on its social media.
■ In America advertisers now want to cancel their campaign out of fear that the upcoming 2020 TV season will be disastrous for ratings given the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
■ The most toxic behind-the-scenes on-set stories of Netflix's cancelled The Patriot Act.
■ A new low for Indian television news.
- And in Australia: When television news is bad news.
■ Can satellite pay-TV survive in the video streaming centric world?
■ The Grand Tour on Amazon Prime Video will travel the world again after Covid.
■ The 10 most expensive to produce Netflix Original series and how much they cost.
■ Tanzania's shocking crackdown on media continues as Clouds TV becomes the latest TV channel to get banned.
■ How watching TV may relate to depression.
■ With new Wan Luo TV channel it's the first time people in northern Uganda will have a national TV broadcast inthe Luo dialect.
■ Scandal: Kerry Washington would have abandoned the Scandal series if Fitz was ...
■ An Indian journalist's shocking letter about working for Republic TV.
