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Boitylicious: A screengrabs from Boity’s reality show, Own Your Throne. The first episode of 13 in the season was broadcast on BET Africa on Wednesday
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Boity takes control of her story

Reality shows such as Own Your Throne may be banal, but affluence attracts viewers

YouTube to protect users when handing over records

The video-sharing site YouTube will be allowed to mask the identities of individual users when it provides viewership records to Viacom.

YouTube court order fans privacy fears

A United States judge’s order to Google to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom has sparked an outcry from privacy advocates.

Indiana Jones cracks whip at box office opening

Actor Harrison Ford cracked the box-office whip as his latest Indiana Jones movie grossed a hefty -million from its first day in North American theatres. That bodes well for a…

Golden Globe winners are also losers

If a movie wins a Golden Globe, but there’s no ceremony, does the prize still count? That’s the issue faced by the Hollywood studios behind such films as Atonement and Sweeney…

Bain sees TV time growing faster than web

Time spent watching television will rise faster than leisure time spent on the web until 2012, while a major audience for internet video could take even longer to develop,…

Hollywood writers begin strike as talks collapse

United States film and television writers started going on strike on Monday as last-minute talks aimed at averting the Writers Guild of America’s first strike in almost two…

‘A pot of gold at the end of the rainbow’

Online video-delivery service Joost, now boasting more than 3 000 hours of content, has finally gone live at the beginning of this month and, to date, two million users have…

Google hits back at YouTube video pirates

Google has introduced a long-promised video filtering system for its YouTube website. The system is designed to help owners of copyrighted videos crack down on pirated versions…