TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read - 16 October 2020.

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

■ MultiChoice makes top-exec appointments: Nyiko Shiburi is new MultiChoice SA CEO, Marc Jury is SuperSport CEO; Clement O'Reilly to oversee HR, Fhulu Badugela new Southern Africa director.

■ Cricket South Africa and the SABC still in the dark about England tour TV coverage with no contract in place.

- Race to get cricket tour broadcast deal signed.

■ Sport and Entertainment International (SPI) tries to break through in South Africa as a new sports streaming service, will start with boxing on Saturday night as it tries to disrupt the traditional sports television market .

■ WarnerMedia dumps its HBO and WB TV channels in India, Pakistan, Maldives, Bangladesh and other South Asia markets.

■ Has Peak TV already peaked?

American television has had to compete with the deranged reality show that is the Donald Trump era, and now viewers have a million viewing options - and a lot less worth watching.

■ The changing face of TV in the time of Covid (subscription required).

■ Netflix's original shows are rarely popular.

Netflix still struggling to wean itself off other companies' hit TV shows.

■ Disney's new corporate structure makes it a lot more like Netflix.

■ MultiChoice Kenya signs an agreement with Kenya's draconian censorship board.

■ Women are rewriting some of the rules of Bollywood thanks to Amazon Prime Video and Netflix.

■ Why Africa's TV animation scene is booming.

■ In the United Kingdom where Sky offers Netflix as part of its pay-TV service, it is now offering Netflix for free in an early Black Friday deal.

■ 5 reasons why Nigerian television doesn't show public protests: Lack of imagination, fear of government.

■ The streaming TV news war is heating up.

Organisations are mounting a fierce and increasingly well-funded battle for streaming-news supremacy.

■ Citizen TV still the most-watched TV channel in Kenya.

■ "Give us the horny Lord of the Rings show we deserve."

Amazon Prime Video put out an open casting call for its New Zealand-filmed fantasy drama series looking for actors "who must be comfortable with nudity".