We can’t stop watching TV during the pandemic — and that’s ok (opinion)
4 years, 8 months ago

We can’t stop watching TV during the pandemic — and that’s ok (opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Bill Carter, a media analyst for CNN, covered the television industry for The New York Times for 25 years, and has written four books on TV, including The Late Shift and The War for Late Night. The nerve-jangling withdrawal from the TV sports habit is growing more acute with each cancellation or postponement of familiar spring events — unless some folks are being placated by the prospect of an NBA “H-O-R-S-E” tournament, or maybe the replay of last year’s world championships of cherry-pit spitting, which ESPN carried last month. Beyond the news networks, some individual shows have especially benefited from the surge of viewing, notably Netflix’s “Tiger King” — a show where tigers aren’t the only wild creatures. Classic TV is everywhere, from “Perry Mason” to “Cheers.” You want to watch “The Mothers-in-Law” with Eve Arden from 1967 — for some unfathomable reason? That will also affect the next season of “The Handmaid’s Tale” on Hulu and the ambitious new version of “The Lord of the Rings” on Amazon, and a whole host of other shows, especially if production in Hollywood is shut down well into summer.

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