TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read - 27 October 2020.

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

■ Wendy Williams on the verge of another drug-fuelled implosion?

With her bizarre and highly erratic behaviour once again visible on-air, insiders working behind-the-scenes at The Wendy Williams Show seen on BET (DStv 129) say "it's like coming to work and watching a trainwreck every day".

- Production staff is at a loss over what to do.

- Wendy Williams starts Monday with cryptic: "I'm not perfect."  - "You're a tough crowd."

- Shock that Debmar-Mercury would allow this to air.

- Former show DJ Boof warns: "Everyone there is afraid to speak up because they don't want to lose their jobs.  This is going to play out bad".

■ Netflix co-CEO Reed Hastings: "We don't really focus that much on title count."

Video streamer on defence in its Q3 earnings call with investors as Netflix admits that its content catalogue of titles is now smaller than what it used to be.

■ Mindhunter on Netflix most likely cancelled.

■ How Apple TV+ is carving out a niche as video streaming service.

■ Health shock: Legendary SuperSport presenter Neil Andrews undergoing triple bypass surgery.

Hospitalised Saturday after unbearable chest pains started this past weekend.

■ Young YouTube influencers are shamelessly marketing junk food to other kids.

■ SABC3's cheater Expresso presenter Katlego Maboe didn't just throw Monique Muller but also the other woman Nikkita Murray under the bus.

When a child is involved, cheating becomes that much more difficult and destructive.

■ Home Improvement's Zachery Ty Bryan dragged girlfriend out of bed by her hair, beat her and choked her over a cellphone charger.

■ New show of Shepard Smith, now seen on CNBC Africa (DStv 410) is a ratings flop.

■ The room where it happens: Why writer rooms make for great TV.

■ How the TV industry in America is getting back to work.

■ In America TV journalism will remain broken after Donald Trump.

■ Joe Dempsey on his new British series Adult Material: The Game of Thrones actor talks porn, sex and self-pleasure.

■ The TV and film industry got black characters wrong for decades. Meet the black British creatives rewriting the script.

■ Shock and outrage as Nigeria's government and corrupt National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) cracks down on the struggling country's media and TV channels during #EndSARS protests.

"The future of press freedom in Nigeria is under massive attack to muzzle journalists."

■ UPIC TV launches in Botswana as an internet protocol TV service.