TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV reports and articles to read - 6 March 2021.

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

■ Talk isn't cheap with Oprah: Oprah's upcoming interview with Prince Harry and Meghan that will be on M-Net (DStv 101) on Monday 8 March earns the talk show queen $7 million in licensing fees from CBS.

- Oprah shows the world how it's done: Contained control all along, crafted an interview plan and waited 3 years for the sit-down with Harry and Meghan.

- "One of the one of the most anticipated, and most heavily-spun, television interviews in recent memory."

- Hollywood can't believe Prince Harry snubbed the Queen ... Queen Oprah by talking to James Corden before his interview with her is being broadcast.

- Meghan tells Oprah she was blocked from talking to the talk show host.

- Why is Harry and Meghan's TV interview so controversial?

- Love, adultery and betrayal: Big British royal TV interviews.

- Royalty TV: Britain's monarchy and television have complex ties.

■ WandaVision finale cameo on Disney+ divides fans.

- Cameo" was nothing but disappointing trolling.

- WandaVision's pointless finale couldn't live up to the show's earlier promise.

- The burning questions from the WandaVision finale.

- The end of WandaVision was way too neat to make any sense.

- How TikTok turned WandaVision into must-see TV.

- How Disney+ cast a spell with The Mandalorian and WandaVision.

- What WandaVision understand - and doesn't get - about the power of television.

- How WandaVision's pitch-perfect title sequences channeled TV's past.

- Error 39: Like what happened with MultiChoice's DStv repeatedly with Game of Thrones, the Disney+ servers again crash with the WandaVision finale.

■ In America but happening in South Africa too with Survivor SA, The Bachelorette SA, Op My Eish!, Love Island SA and others! TV productions take to hotels and resorts to do their TV productions within production bubbles because of Covid-19.

■ MSNBC (StarSat 263) reporter Jacob Soboroff nearly crushed by a falling light fixture live on the air.

■ Senegal in Africa shuts down TV stations as protests escalate.

■ "ESPN did me so dirty tonight": Diver appears to be naked.

■ FOX renews The Simpsons for season 33 and 34 taking it to 2023 and 757 episodes.

■ Trade unions at the SABC might once again go to the Labour Court over the retrenchment process at the South African public broadcaster.

■ How many Supermen is too many for WarnerMedia's HBO Max streaming service?

■ HBO Max boss: Less than 6 global video streaming services will survive.

■ ViacomCBS's new video streaming service Paramount+ is a CBS All Access rebrand. But what exactly does that mean?

- Paramount+ boss: Video streaming is going to look a lot like traditional TV has.

- Paramount+ has a lot riding on SpongeBob Squarepants.

■ The viewership boats of video streaming services like Netflix South Africa and MultiChoice's Showmax are utterly meaningless without context and actual viewership numbers.

■ The United Democratic Movement (UDM) political party accepts eNCA's (DStv 403) apology over its racist mask incident with reporter Lindsay Dentlinger.

- UDM waiting for feedback from the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA) over complaints over eNCA's alleged racist conduct.

- South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) to investigate eNCA's racist mask incident.

- eNCA's Lindsay Dentlinger analysed across 25 interviews (subscription required).

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■ Stay away: Coming 2 America with South Africa's Nomzamo Mbatha on Amazon Prime Video flop s in spite of all-star cast.

- "A horrible, mishmash, reboot atrocity."

- "Disastrous."

- Failed sequel is "a disappointing rehash".

■ A+E Networks is telling advertisers that it will have lots of new content and that those new shows will be premiering on A+E Networks' linear TV channels first and not on streaming.

■ The future of film and production in South Africa.

■ How Hollywood is trying to deal with its problematic racist and sexist classic content.

■ Ligwalagwala FM listeners furious over the SABC's retrenchment process.

Mpumalanga listeners say the axing of staffers would cause the collapse of the SABC's radio station.

■ Disney faces a tricky second act in its attempt to take on Netflix.

- How Disney+ is winning by ripping up the video streaming playbook.

■ Inside Joss Whedon's toxic world.

A pattern of inappropriate and disparaging behaviour toward those who worked for him.

■ How to build the perfect TV format show.