Short answer to why people are orange: simplistic color correction schemes, overzealously applied during video editing. Priceonomics did a wonderful exposé of this trend recently.
http://priceonomics.com/why-every-movie-looks-sort-of-orange...
http://priceonomics.com/why-every-movie-looks-sort-of-orange...
Whilst I'm on my high horse, because I don't watch tv when I see CNN in our building lobby I always find it so weird how the reporters, especially the women, employ body language to emphasize their point. There is no volume on just the image and they are nodding so vociferously and making hand gestures. They look deranged.
They obviously all get taught this as a way to get their point across but look quite mad.