10 Stories You Should Know: 01/23/2023
Here are the stories that should be on your radar
Here are the TV and streaming stories that should be on your radar for Monday, January 23rd, 2023:
Pamela Anderson Alleges Tim Allen Flashed His Penis At Her When She Was 23 (Variety)
“On the first day of filming, I walked out of my dressing room, and Tim was in the hallway in his robe. He opened his robe and flashed me quickly — completely naked underneath. He said it was only fair, because he had seen me naked. Now we’re even. I laughed uncomfortably,” according to an excerpt in “Love, Pamela.”
A Problem Of Plenty: Too Many OTT Players Boggling Indian Consumers (Business Today India)
A whopping 77% consumers in India said they are overwhelmed by the number of streaming services to choose from, while 41% unsubscribed from at least one of the top five streaming video-on-demand services in the last 12 months, finds an Accenture study
BBC Board To Probe Richard Sharp Conflicts Of Interest Amid Boris Johnson Loan Scandal (Deadline)
BBC Chair Richard Sharp has asked the BBC Board to review conflicts of interest in the wake of the Boris Johnson loan scandal that broke over the weekend. Sharp has been under pressure since a bombshell Sunday Times report that said he had helped organize the PM’s meeting with a guarantor for an £800,000 ($990,000) loan in 2020, before being appointed Chair by the government several weeks later.
MENA Region Pay-TV Market To Add 2 Million Subs By 2028 (Rapid TV News)
Despite legitimate pay-TV penetration in the region remaining at only 19%, the number of pay-TV subscribers in 20 MENA countries will increase from 17.32 million in 2022 to 19.20 million in 2028, reveals a study from Digital TV Research.
Netflix's: ‘Is Time Travel Possible’ Trends On YouTube India (AdGully)
Netflix India’s official YouTube channel is home to some of the most engaging and interesting original and branded content, recently entering the 20 million Subscriber club. The platform's latest YouTube video had taken the whole internet by storm. 'Is Time Travel Possible?' had reached the #1 spot in the trending section of YouTube, garnering over 12 million views in just 48 hours.
Casting Directors’ Guild U.K. Awards 2022: Nominations Include ‘House of Gucci,’ ‘Slow Horses’ (Variety)
CDG co-chairs Sam Jones and Rebecca Wright said: “We are thrilled to be celebrating our fifth annual CDG Awards and once again we are delighted to be back in the room acknowledging our members’ wonderfully diverse and brilliant work. It has been an incredible year for television, film and theatre. We can’t wait to announce our winners and we now have 11 awards; new for this year are the awards for Best Children’s Casting and for Contribution to Casting. Huge congratulations in advance to the winners and to all our nominees”.
Discovery+ Removes Live Feeds of Discovery Channels Shows From HGTV, Discovery, TLC, & More (CordCuttersNews)
Are you a Discovery+ subscriber? Over the weekend you may have noticed that the option to watch dedicated channels of Discovery-owned shows from HGTV and TLC are gone. Instead, you will find only on-demand versions of Warner Bros. Discovery programming.
RT (Russia Today) Closes French Operation (Broadband TV News)
RT France has announced its closure following a recent round of European Union sanctions led to the freezing of its assets in the country.
Severity Of School Violence In K-dramas Raises Questions Of Appropriateness (Korea Joongang Daily)
The severity of school violence depicted in Korean dramas on major streaming platforms is concerning viewers as an increasing number of recent hits center around graphic school violence.
India Blocks ‘Hostile’ BBC Documentary On PM Modi (Arab News)
The British broadcaster’s program alleges that the Hindu nationalist Modi, premier of Gujarat state at the time, ordered police to turn a blind eye to the orgy of violence there that left at least 1,000 people dead, most of them minority Muslims.