TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read - 28 October 2020.

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

■ Cheating Expresso TV presenter Katlego Maboe: Is infidelity a form of abuse?

- Reputation rehab: Can reality TV rescue people with bad reputations?

■ Fox News (StarSat 261) American election night 2020 coverage plans in chaos over internal Covid-19 cases.

■ The South African Football Association (SAFA) defends its extremely bizarre late-night announcement in an amateurish exclusive broadcast on the SABC.

■ From 17 November the Televiza pay-TV operator in Mexico will offer Disney+ as an additional streaming service to its subscribers - similar to how MultiChoice wants to add Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and others to DStv.

"Rather than just seeing it as a competitor, well there are ways that we can all benefit, including Disney and us, from new entrants in the market."

■ For video streaming services like Netflix and Apple TV+ catalogue content size isn't everything.

■ Star Wars: The Mandalorian is once again at the top of digital original series recognition and interest.

Worldwide - including South Africa and across Africa where Disney hasn't launched Disney+ - viewers can't wait for the second season of the  Disney+ that will very likely see another massive spike in pirate viewing.

- Baby Yoda has become a marketing force.

■ Netflix working on a live-action Assassin's Creed TV series.

■ John Stewart returning to TV with a new Apple TV+ current affairs series.

■ Bela Bajaria, the head of Netflix's global TV division restructures dramatically - people fired, international team reorganised.

■ Arrow's Stephen Amell reveals he tested Covid-19 positive.

Discuss his "mental fear" of ruining his new TV series because he's the lead on the call sheet.

■ The real reason(s) Netflix cancelled its science fiction series Away.

■ Demi Lovato is going to be the host of the 2020 E! People's Choice Awards on E! (DStv 124).

■ Bots target and make thousands of votes in Nickelodeon's (DStv 305) Kids Pick the President special of the ViacomCBS TV channel.

■ South Africa's state signal distributor Sentech defends its exorbitantly high prices it charges the SABC and others. (subscription required)

■ In a decade of reality TV, have we learnt anything at all?

■ How do celebrity actors prepare for TV sex scenes?

■ TV actress stabbed in Mumbai after she turned down Indian man's marriage proposal.

■ Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON) rejects and is shocked by the fines that the country's corrupt Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) imposed on TV channels like Arise TV, AIT and Channels TV for their coverage of the #EndSARS public protests.

Demands that the sanctions and fines be withdrawn and that the corrupt NBC follow correct legal procedures.

■ The trouble with Netflix.