TV with Thinus: TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read

Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:

■ Old TV set kept wiping out broadband for an entire Welsh village daily, at the same time and nobody knew that it was the reason.

■ Hollywood's new supervillain at the movies: Empty seats in cinemas.
Big-budget films now kept away from movie theatres because studios don't think they will make their money back if people don't attend.

■ Netflix's Ryan Murphy problem: Why has all of his TV series for Netflix been so bad from Ratched and The Politician to Hollywood?

■ "Ratings whore" Jeff Zucker helped to create the Donald Trump show. That show might now be ending.

A Frakenstein tale for the late TV age.

■ Has Donald Trump's Walter Reed hospital video been edited to get rid of coughing?

■ Ratings for America's 72nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards fall again to a new record-low as video streaming becomes the new normal and takes over from broadcasting.

■ How Netflix is selling itself to the world.

Beyond series and films, Netflix is now spending millions to market itself.

■ For America's big TV channels November has become the new September.

Because of Covid-19 the usual new 2020 fall season that is supposed to start in September is being pushed to November which is when the new season of "real" shows like This is Us and Grey's Anatomy seen on M-Net (DStv 101) will hopefully start.

■ Staffers at Ellen DeGeneres' Ellen Show says her season 18 premiere apology turned their trauma into a joke.

Ellen's on-air monologue slammed as disingenuous and tone-deaf.

■ More TV documentaries are being made than ever before.

But they're skipping the actual journalism because of constant conflicts of interest.

■ South Africa's boxing community in conflict over planned public protest and march set for 4 November at the SABC.

■ Why Enola Holmes on Netflix is a disappointing Sherlock Holmes movie.

■ Prince Harry and Meghan Markle alarmed at Netfli'sdemands - "They have to pay a price".

■ How Grey's Anatomy seen on M-Net (DStv 101) will tackle Covid-19 in the upcoming new season 17.

"We've actually reinvented the wheel."

■ What the TV viewership shift towards streaming means for advertising and advertisers.

■ South Africa's financially struggling SABC that already has corporate marketing and communication staff, as well as several other publicists, has appointed an external PR company to do its work.

■ With its explosion of unscripted content Netflix is putting its rivals on notice about reality TV.