TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read from TVwithThinus - 10 April 2018.

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

■ The SABC's disappointing coverage of the life of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela after her death last week.
Why the lack of historical footage on the South African public broadcaster?

■ Naspers' SVOD service Showmax run by MultiChoice, says that in Africa expensive data is slowing down the growth if internet television. 

■ North Americans are the world's biggest TV watching addicts, spending 4 hours per days watching television.

The rest of the world spends nearly 3 hours per day watching TV. Meanwhile millennials and young adults are spending more time on their cellphones and watching TV that way.

■ HBO's Westworld creators are so scared of spoilers leaking about the upcoming 2nd season that will be on M-Net (DStv 101) that they've decided to do spoilers themselves.

■ CBS television executives are freaking out over a looming Charlie Rose expose in The Washington Post.

■ In a new episode "No Good Read Goes Unpunished" The Simpsons addressed the stereotype criticism over the Indian Apu character - and are now facing new complaints. And why The Simpsons' tasteless response to the Apu controversy is so heartbreaking. 

■ Colton Haynes is returning to Arrow seen on M-Net (DStv 101) as a series regular for the 7th season.

■ Star Trek: Discovery available on Netflix South Africa has added Anson Mount who will play Captain Christopher Pike in the second season.

■ FOX News (StarSat 261 / Cell C black 502) accidentally shows viewers that FOX News is the least trusted American TV news channel.

■ How Netflix and Amazon are driving a global reality TV renaissance although the online demand for reality series is still relatively small compared to scripted series.

■ The first photo of the older, reunited Murphy Brown cast.

Murphy Brown comedy reboot coming with Candice Bergen back in her former role for a 13-episode first season.

A Murphy Brown comedy reboot is coming, with actress Candice Bergen who will reprise her former role as investigative TV news woman Murphy Brown for a first season of 13 episodes.

America's CBS network gave the green light for a new Murphy Brown version, with executive producer and writer Diane English also returning. The new Murphy Brown will be produced by Warner Bros Television that also produced the original series.

The long-running Murphy Brown is yet another of the American TV series that South Africa's public broadcaster the SABC, started showing but never completed. 

The last two seasons of  the 10 seasons of Murphy Brown were never broadcast on the SABC - and never anywhere else - after TV4 started Murphy Brown for a few seasons, with the show that then shifted to CCV and got dumped during SABC TV channel restructuring.

Will & Grace that was on SABC3 is back on M-Net (DStv 101), The X-Files that was on TV1 is back on FOX (DStv 125 / StarSat 131 / Cell C black 201), and there is also a Roseanne reboot in America with the original series that was shown in South Africa on CCV and with the new version that hasn't found a TV channel home yet. 

Murphy Brown that was set at the fictional TV news magazine show FYI, started in 1988 - making it exactly 30 years since the start of the show - the same as M-Net's long-running weekly investigative magazine show Carte Blanche that will also be celebrating its 30th anniversary in August this year.

Murphy Brown "returns to a world of cable news, social media, fake news and a very different political and cultural climate," says CBS.