TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read - 30 October 2020.

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

■ Andisa Ndlovu leaves eNCA (DStv 403)
... while Zoe Brown pops back up at SABC3's Expresso.

■ Outsurance edits SABC3 Expresso presenter Katlego Maboe out of its TV commercials after his cheating.

- Katlego Maboe's "wife abuse storm" story also news across Southern Africa.

■ Season 2 of Star Wars: The Mandalorian starts on Disney+ that is NOT available on South Africa or Africa - a favourite character makes a cameo!

- Star Wars: The Mandalorian: Disney's biggest blockbuster of 2020 returns with a new mission.

- Who is Cobb Vanth?

- A Star Wars lore cheat sheet for season 2.

- Star Wars: The Mandalorian season 2 makes Disney+ the lead streamer.

- But perhaps again the most pirated TV show of 2020  as it was in 2019?

Disney refused to preview or make screeners of the second season available to TV critics.

■ Star Wars: The Mandalorian reviews: 

- "A smorgasbord of action and Easter eggs"

- "A fun return"

- "Creators have started to think bigger"

- The best episode yet? Season 2 premiere was amazing"

- Season 2 kicks off in the best way"

■ CNN International (DStv 401) contributor lied on CNN.

■ Fox News (StarSat 261) Tucker Carlson claims; proof lost in the mail.

■ What happens to Fox News (StarSat 261) if Donald Trump loses the 2020 American election? Rupert Murdoch is prepared.

■ Angry South African artists in potential hostage situation demand answers from the country's incompetent Gauteng Arts and Culture department over Covid-19 relief funds.

■ As expected, Netflix hikes prices in America.

■ Amazon Prime Video: The consumer doesn't own the series and films they buy to watch.

■ How will Disney's experiment making its big-screen Mulan available on its Disney+ streamer affect the VOD business?

■ South Africans are tired of "doing the right thing" when it comes to paying their SABC TV Licence fees and won't stand for being taxed more to fund the SABC simply by watching MultiChoice's DStv or Netflix SA.

- There are a lot of challenges around the SABC and department of communications' idea to have private companies like MultiChoice and Netflix collect and pay SABC TV Licence fees on behalf of their customers.

■ The Masked Singer is getting a spinoff: The Masked Dancer.

■ NBCUniversal is apparently done with creating content and shows for a specific pay-TV channel.

What will happen to American-produced linear pay-TV channels like E!, Universal TV, Studio Universal and others carried on platforms like DStv in Africa?

■ See and hear Gillian Anderson and her stunning transformation into Margaret Thatcher in the trailer for the 4th season of The Crown on Netflix.

■ Sky gives carpentry show The Chop on Sky History channel the chop after Nazi scandal.