TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read - 10 November 2020.

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

■ His 3rd divorce: Fox News (StarSat 261) staffers believe the American channel will dump Donald Trump and focus on bashing Joe Biden.

"A black hole where news dies and conspiracy theories and opinions reign supreme."

■ Trump's presidency might be ending, but Trump the TV series will continue.

"Trump will remain on our screens because he cannot live without seeing himself on television. As much as he is a product of television, he is also its victim. If he doesn't see himself on TV, he doesn't exist."

■ Trump's reality TV show presidency gets cancelled.

After 4 years Americans were ready to change the channel and what began as a grotesque political version of The Bachelor seems destined to end closer in tone to Fear Factor. Like Oprah he delighted in giving surprise gifts to his viewers; family's emotional dysfunction could provide fodder for entire seasons of Dr. Phil and The Jerry Springer Show.

-Ugly: Anderson Cooper on CNN International's (DStv 401) calls Donald Trump "an obese turtle, flailing on his back in the sun".

- Tension, then some tears as American TV news narrated the announcement that Joe Biden has been elected as that country's next president.

- Behind-the-scenes struggle at Fox News (StarSat 261) with the Murdoch family.

- Pro-Trump outlets cry betrayal after Fox News (StarSat 261) calls American election for Joe Biden.

- CNN was first, followed by NBC, MSNBC, then CBS, and ABC; then Associated Press (AP) and Fox News.

- Fox News (StarSat 261) abruptly cuts off Kayleigh McEnany after baseless allegations.

- MSNBC (StarSat 263) contributor Jon Meacham has secretly been writing Joe Biden speeches without telling the TV channel.

- Will Trump TV dethrone Fox News (StarSat 261) as the new voice of right-wing America?

■ It's time to break up with Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight''s way-off American election polling.

- American pollsters and fakes like FiveThirtyEight and The Upshot are hawking a false sense of certainty.

- "Issue 3, pollsters disaster": What does it say that American polls were once again so far off in American election voter sentiment before voting?

- What went wrong with the 2020 American election polls and what's next for political polling?

- What went wrong with America's polls this year?

- America's polling crisis catastrophe.

■ America's CBS TV network orders all its reality TV shows to have at least 50% of contestants people of colour.

■ After Alex Trebek, host of American quiz game show Jeopardy! dies:

"Jeopardy!" never grew musty, irrelevant or confined; it never arbitrarily decided that ancient history, revered literature and settled science had a cutoff point. It treated the never-ending story of human civilization as an unfolding and evolving body of knowledge."

■ The fired, then court-ordered back SABC anchor Palesa Chubisi dares SABC CEO Madoda Mxakwe to try and remove her from the SABC airwaves.

■ Production on second season of Netflix's The Witcher shuts yet down again over multiple positive Covid-19 tests.

- 4 crew members of The Witcher tested positive on Saturday in the United Kingdom.

■ South Africa's SABC that has a PR division splashes R2.3 MILLION to pay public relations company, PR Worx, to do PR work and clean up the image of the struggling South African public broadcaster - the contract allegedly signed without following due process.

■ Bad form: Despite raging Covid-19 pandemic, political unrest and economic troubles in Nigeria, MultiChoice Nigeria is going ahead with a DStv Premium Golf Day in Lagos.

■ Half the price of Netflix: How Telkom's streamer TelkomONE and its SABC content compares.

■ SABC execs give trade unions until Friday to come with new suggestions on how to minimise retrenchment numbers at the bloated and overstaffed South African public broadcaster.

■ How the SABC tried not to cover (but failed) the Democratic Alliance (DA) political party's elective congress.

South African public broadcaster had to be forced to do so by a Johannesburg High Court order.

■ Princess Diana interview: "Dark cloud over BBC journalism," says former BBC chairman.

■ Since its tortoise-slow launch a year ago, Apple TV+ finally seems to hit its stride.

■ Bloomberg launches a streaming news channel for younger adults.

■ A fifth of American homes now has video streaming services but no traditional pay-TV service.

■ ViacomCBS is shutting down all of its legacy streaming services to focus on Paramount+ .

■ A flurry of complaints as British viewers are disgusted by ESPN's (DStv 218 / StarSat 248) new sympathetically-slanted Oscar Pistorius documentary series that MultiChoice and China's StarTimes plan to broadcast from 19 November in South Africa and across Africa.