Amid California reopening, coronavirus is changing TV
LA TimesTelevision is likely to be remembered as the medium of our own plague year — an art form that kept its lights on as others’ flickered out. And though it has traditionally been skewered as the “idiot box” or “boob tube” for these qualities, such slang terms, already hopelessly retrograde, now read as unjust: Who among us hasn’t turned to television in recent weeks, whether to stay apprised of the crisis or for a moment escape it? As with the man standing before a shop window of stacked screens in a disaster movie, or the broadcaster signing off one last time before the asteroid hits, TV is the medium even the movies have imagined continuing in apocalyptic circumstances, the one most adaptable to the needs of “these strange times.” And so it has come to pass. From deep binges, socially distant newscasts and President Trump’s evolving press conferences to cast reunions, at-home concerts and even the socially distant Very Special Episode, TV has been the fastest medium to adapt to our new reality. Though plenty of productions are shuttered to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, TV never quite closed enough to “reopen.” Instead, as always, it evolved.
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