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Should TV Shows Address the Pandemic When They Return?

Got that pandemic for ya! The last 18 months have been incredibly hard for people across the globe, but things are getting better. Just last week I was able to see my family for the first time since 2019, and vaccines are slowly rolling out all over the world. As TV writers' rooms reconvene, the big question on everyone's mind is the same: how do we address the pandemic? No, I'm not talking about the drugs from The Wire, I'm talking about the COVID-19 pandemic that ruined our 2020. Showrunners and networks are all trying to figure out if the characters in their shows should have been locked up for all of 2020 or maybe just should never mention it. Still, the lockdown was such a momentous moment in our lives. It changed and shaped a lot of different people, including a generation of young people who were cut off for a long time from normalcy. Recently, the Los Angeles Times sat down with a bunch of people who work in TV to figure out how they'll handle this feat. Read More...

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Published By: NoFilmSchool - Friday, 11 June, 2021

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