TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV reports and articles to read - 26 February 2021.

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

■ Netflix has renewed the Spanish youth series ELITE about the Lax Encinas high schoolers has been renewed for a 5th season before the start of season 4.

■ The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) that votes for the Golden Globes and that has no black members now says that it has an "action plan" to specifically recruit black members.

■ Original shows give Netflix a big edge in the video streaming wars.

■ The Walt Disney Company's new Star streaming service add-on - the "international Hulu" - is leaving international buyers,like for instance MultiChoice and M-Net - in the lurch.

Disney is creating massive confusion and big questions for its international partners making use of its content distribution system for shows ... that are and will dry up.

■ When is a plus actually a minus when it comes to naming your video streaming services?

An idea that seemed like a real plus when video streaming was newer, has now become a cliché.

■ Why Paramount+ is proof that we've hit peak video streaming.

In an era of way, way too much TV, things get lost.

■ The showrunner of Snowpiercer on Netflix talks about keeping trains running amid Covid-19 and dealing with superfans.

■ 10 things TV should stop doing right now.

From reboots and spinoffs to streaming services - enough already!

■ Traditional pay-TV subscribers are spending as much money on video streaming services as cord-cutters who have ended their satellite-TV subscriptions.

■ New video streaming services are breathing new life into old TV classics.

■ Netflix wants to start shifting from quantity to quality content as it lays out a vision where it no longer has all the content, but the best content.

■ The growing, big struggle to try and place ratings on streaming shows.

■ 60% of traditional pay-TV subscribers would love to watch a show on a video streaming service.

■ Will political documentary survive the age of Netflix?

The struggle to speak truth to power in the age of streaming.