Tim Gunn trashes Anna Wintour.
You simply
MUST watch what
Tim Gunn reveals about
Anna Wintour and the
Vogue editor to
Meredith Vieira of
The Meredith Vieira Show on SABC3.
Why allow a con-artist to bleed the SABC dry?
More reaction to the SABC's matricless
Hlaudi Motsoeneng and his massive salary of R3.78 million.
Hlaudi Motsoeneng "
has a knack for saying the dumbest things" and "each time his bloodshot eyes glare at us from newspaper pages or television screens, he is taunting us".
Hlaudi Motsoeneng's
massive SABC salary "is bizarre," says the Public Protector.
"
The SABC needs to fire Hlaudi Motsoeneng".
Meanwhile the SABC's SABC News tries to "dispel confusion" over
Hlaudi Motsoeneng's salary
in a news story insert that is real news and not satire and not fake and not a joke.
Hlaudi Motsoeneng claims:
"I saved 800 jobs at the SABC and created another 250" and that he has been
approached by international broadcasting organisations to join them.
The SABC
is facing R1 billion in claims from individuals and government entities - at least 20 claims over millions of rand.
Namibian DStv subscribers are furious at SuperSport over "stupid remarks".
Disgusted with SuperSport presenter
Tony Ndoro's insulting remarks who was "temporarily removed". SuperSport said it "apologises to Namibian subscribers for remarks" and that
Tony Ndoro will no longer comment on Namibian matches.
Meanwhile angry viewers forced
SuperSport to commit to an apology this coming Sunday live on the air during
Master Plan over the remarks broadcast over SuperSport airwaves about Namibia.
Why Discovery Networks can't win over investors.
People remain lukewarm and sceptical that Discovery Networks, that runs channels like the Discovery Channel (DStv 121), is ready for the streaming media revolution.
Promises that Discovery will grown in America
despite turbulence, promises that Discovery will reach
3 billion subscribers worldwide by the end of this year,
promises 3 years of profit growth for Discovery.
Discovery's CEO
David Zaslav calls video-on-demand (VOD) services
"dumb" and that the economics are inferior.
At Discovery's first Investor Day media day in New York he says
VOD services work in markets where many people speak English and like American entertainment.
Oprah Winfrey's new spiritual discovery series
Belief will start on OWN, one of Discovery Networks' channels, and will
air around the world from October.
Oprah's OWN is now
"a cash flow machine" for Discovery after 5 years after it struggled initially.
Discovery Networks International plans to show the trophy hunting documentary
Blood Lions in South Africa and worldwide about the trophy hunting industry in South Africa (no announcement in South Africa yet).
Racing Extinction will start as a worldwide event from Discovery on 2 December in 220 countries and will presumably be on Discovery Channel (DStv 121) and Discovery Science (StarSat 222) in South Africa.
Tony Danza was "disappointed; Alyssa Milano left "a lovely message"
After
Who's the Boss?'s gay
Danny Pintauro revealed to
Oprah Winfrey that he is HIV positive. "The stigma of HIV/Aids is the reason it's continuing to be there," he tells E!.
More embarrassment for MSNBC?
With the disgraced Brian Williams now anchoring on MSNBC, Michael Wolff notes that
Today,
Nightly News,
Meet the Press,
Dateline, CNBC (DStv 410) and MSNBC (StarSat 263) are all troubled brands.
HBO's new Westworld remake forces extras to be okay with nudity and sex touching.
Unions concerned after contracts for background extras require consent for naked bareback riding on all fours, hand-to-genital touching, while some might get their "genitals painted". Also
genital-to-genital touching on the show "about the future of sin" set at a futuristic theme park where robots go haywire.
Anyone for "contorting to form a table-like shape while being fully nude" on television? The more than 50 extras got paid
$600 for the simulated sex scenes on the HBO set because of the "unprecedented amount if simulated sex" they have to perform.
HBO now denies that the
trashy nudity and sex document for the controversial simulated sex lot came from them and that it "contains situations that we do not require of any actor".
Hollywood's actors unions and guilds
upset and scolds HBO for the trashy contract.
MultiChoice is dumping ONE Gospel (DStv ccc) in the rest of Africa from DStv.
The Christian gospel channel produced by Urban Brew Studios is a gonner on DStv outside of South Africa from 30 September.
DStv subscribers are furious over the removal of ONE Gospel and accuses
MultiChoice of a breach of contract while DStv gave no real reason for cutting the channel.
At least there is the
SABC Crown Gospel Awards happening on 15 November in Durban "a
phenomenon that is currently international".
Absolutely brilliant!
John Oliver brings back a Days of Our Lives character.
The host of
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on M-Net (DStv 101) resurrects the dead EJ DiMera (
James Scott) for a migrant Syrian teenager "for one night only" who is in love with the American soap.
The whole 18 minutes is a brilliant and beautiful explainer - using television for the
best of what it can be.
I wanted to cry when
Noujain Mustaffa explained how she learned English by watching
Days of Our Lives. And the
Days of Our Lives bit starting at 15:50 after you've watched the whole explainer with Sami and EJ ... utterly perfect.
(Meanwhile
Fortune looks at the
impact John Oliver has had in a very short time and why his influence is no joke.)
MultiChoice explains how it compiles TV channels on DStv.
DStv channels constantly monitored, and the "DStv audience is a challenging one to cater for".
Why reality TV has been voted off the island this new TV season.
People still want reality but are tired of the same stuff and viewers are "ready for something different". Meanwhile
reality TV producers say reality shows are not dead - at least not for legacy shows.
The secret of Empire's success.
The hit drama series on FOX (DStv 125 / StarSat 131) shows that culturally relevant programming can have mass appeal and that ... content is king.
And FOX is
already thinking of planting a character in Empire to then create a spinoff. Just like
Dynasty in the 80s if I remember correctly (and I do).
The Simpsons will likely end with its 30th season.
Longest running primetime animation TV series just started its 27th season. And why did the show wait so long
for Smithers to come out as gay?
New reality show coming to SABC3. Apparently.
The Paw Paw Films production which also wants identical twins, will be looking at the workings of the human mind to demonstrate how phobias and hypnosis works.
Where have all the young men gone?
A massive 22% less young men - TV's most coveted demographic is gone since the start of the just started new TV season.
Rob Lowe speaks out about the objectification of men on television.
"I unbutton my shirt and then he looks at me and I realize what he wants to see is nipple," says the star of the new drama
The Grinder.
Quantico copies from Shonda Rhimes' dramas.
The great new drama that just started on Vuzu Amp (DStv 114) and which is not from Shonda Rhimes copy and paste what Shonda did with
Grey's Anatomy and her other dramas.
By the way,
Quantico is one of those shows that's indicative of how
the international TV market and what they want and require is impacting and changing the TV made in America.
Stephen Colbert simply won't stand evasive answers and non-responses.
Neither do I. On his new late night talk show Stephen Colbert refuses to back down and just need those who are supposed to talk, to co-operate, when
Kerry Washington gives the moronic "watch this space" answer.
CSI out-CSI-ed itself for the finale.
A completely fitting farewell you want to see. And the finale scene of
CSI was thought up
16 years ago already says creator
Anthony Zuiker.
Blindspot creator has a 3 season plan.
Remember how
Prison Break fizzled and eventually had no place to go? Creator of
Blindspot coming to M-Net (DStv 101) says there is "a real concrete plan for the first three seasons".
American TV critics complain about not getting a 2nd episode for review.
American TV critics are fed-up with only getting a pilot episode of a new show to review and not more episodes as TV series become more serialised. Meanwhile South African TV critics mostly get nothing and maybe one episode and only sometimes shown something
if there's a press launch for a TV show and you're so very "privileged" to be invited.
The Lonely brilliance of MacGuyver.
One of the quintessential TV series of the 80s - one which even
even boosted SABC3's midday ratings in 2012 as I reported three years ago is exactly 30 years old.
Traffic! returns to e.tv for a 2nd season
On 6 October at 21:05. Of course ga-zero information to TV critics and the press, but e.tv's website says it will revolve around a serial killer muthi murderer who steals fetuses.
Once people get kids - even millennials - they ...
get or go back to getting pay-TV says
The New York Times. Exclusive video-on-demand streaming lasts only until millennials start familes.
Al Jazeera (DStv 406 / StarSat 257) in America won't recognise its union.
Digital employees at Al Jazeera America complain about pay discrepancies, lack of communication between labor and management, and uncertainty.
The boring, boring, boring Homeland on M-Net (DStv 101) ...
... is a typical example of how shows overstay and become stale and irrelevant while it suffers the tyranny of being unable to do anything or kill of the core cast.
The SABC-MultiChoice deal challenged at the Competition Commission Tribunal.
Caxton, SOS Coalition and Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) challenging the massive R533 million deal MultiChoice signed with the SABC which it argues constitutes a merger between DStv and the South African public broadcaster.
Does MultiChoice control the SABC's assets and policy? asks Moneyweb, reporting that MultiChoice's contract with the SABC for SABC News (DStv 404) and SABC Encore (DStv 156) is characterised as "extraordinary" and "deeply unusual".
