TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read - 31 October 2020.

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

■ Cheating scandal of Outsurance frontman and SABC3 Expresso presenter Katlego Maboe:

- Close confidant dishes to YOU magazine in cover story: "The person you see on TV isn't the real Katlego". (subscription required)

-  Monique Muller reveals: Katlego Maboe allegedly infected her with the sexually-transmitted disease (STD) HPV after a trip to the Ukraine sponsored by Lay's Chips for which he was a brand ambassador.

- Monique Muller now has a protection order against Katlego Maboe who isn't allowed to come anywhere close to the Seapoint flat where they lived.

- A week after teasing a teary sit-down, GoBinge interview on YouTube with Monique Muller fails to materialise.

■ BBC orders staffers "not to express personal opinion" on politics, public policy or controversial subjects on social media.

- BBC journalists question, poke fun at BBC over tougher rules - including Huw Edwards.

- BBC journalists no longer allowed to "virtue signal" in social media crackdown.

- Confusion as new BBC boss Tim Davie says BBC staff can attend Pride marches after all.

- Tim Davie: "No ban on attending Pride parades."

■ Star Wars: The Mandalorian a Disney+ hit - but the streamer has little else.

Because of Covid-19 the Disney+ streamer would have had a lot of other new TV series by now ... all delayed.

- Ending of season 2's first episode explained.

- Second season "won't move far, far away from what worked last year."

- Is that Boba Fett??

- Timothy Olyphant's perfect, perfect haircut.

- How Baby Yoda became the biggest meme star in the galaxy.

More Star Wars: The Mandalorian reviews:

- "Writer-director Jon Favreau simply giving audiences what they want"

- "Fine but not great; a hologram of what it could be"

- Ongoing discovery of the Star Wars universe with spectacular results"

- "A metaphor for parenthood as well as old-fashioned science-fiction entertainment"

- "Even if the story is relatively small in scope, the visuals and effects are huge and spectacular"

- "A ton of fun"

- "A very good episode"

■ Fox News (StarSat 261) expands its Fox News International video streaming service to Ireland, Norway, Czech Republic.

■ WATCH: Entertainment Weekly staffers on how American TV will be reshaped by 2020 and challenges that shows might face down the road.

■ CNN International (DStv 401) PR division lashes out at Kirstie Alley in ugly fight over its 2020 American election coverage:

"Kirstie, you are welcome to change the channel – just like countless viewers did every time Veronica’s Closet came on TV."

■ Netflix's strategy: More of its own original content but much shorter runs.

■ MGM's costly dilemma as it considered selling its No Time to Die James Bond film to video streaming services.

■ Ultimate Love reality TV wedding on the rocks that MultiChoice Nigeria would have bankrolled.

Rosemary "Rosie" Afuwape and "Kachi" Ucheagwu split which means an end to million naira TV wedding: "I don't need a man that is flippant at every slight provocation, behaving like a woman and wants to show me he is a man in a wrong way."

■  More South Africans unimpressed with the SABC's idea of wanting DStv and Netflix subscribers as well as smartphone owners forced to pay SABC TV Licence fees.

■ The South African public broadcaster officially puts out a request for information (RFI) for a company to provide the SABC with an over-the-top video streaming service.

The closing date is 30 November 2020.

■ YouTubers reimagine new game Among Us as a reality TV show.