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Pandemic: With Tiffani Thiessen, French Stewart, Faye Dunaway, Eric Roberts. The bird flu virus spreads through Los Angeles as a doctor from the CDC races to find a vaccine.
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- Containment. David Gyasi, Christina Marie Moses, Chris Wood. 120 votes. This gripping drama showcases the chaos that unfolds when a deadly epidemic breaks out in Atlanta.
- The Walking Dead. Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Lauren Cohan. 174 votes. In this iconic post-apocalyptic horror series, viewers are thrust into a world overrun by flesh-eating zombies.
- The Last Ship. Eric Dane, Adam Baldwin, Travis Van Winkle. 94 votes. A thrilling combination of action, suspense, and drama, this series centers on the crew of a naval destroyer after a pandemic wipes out most of the Earth's population.
- The Stand. Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Laura San Giacomo. 80 votes. Adapted from Stephen King's classic novel, this chilling series delves into the aftermath of a catastrophic plague that leaves the world in ruins.
- Shorter Seasons and Year-Round Programming
- Streaming Services Benefit
- Great Shows Gone Too Soon
- The Pandemic Works Its Way Into TV Storylines
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- Awards Shows Are Ratings Losers
- Faking A Crowd
- Pandemic Winners
- There's No Stopping Reality Competitions
The production shutdown led networks to delayed and sometimes shortened seasons for shows, including NBC's "This Is Us," HBO Max's “The Flight Attendant,” the final episodes of CW's “Supernatural” and HBO's "Euphoria," among many others. The final season of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," due in March, won't even start filming until next month, and won't air...
Peak TV was supposed to have crested by now, but the number of outlets to stream shows keeps expanding. In the past year, Peacock, Discovery+ and Paramount+ joined recent startups Apple TV+, Disney+ and established streamers Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video, among others. Too many? Not for a pandemic year that made us all shut-ins, searching fo...
The pandemic introduced a new term to the TV industry: The unrenewal. Series like Netflix’s “GLOW,”“The Society” and “I Am Not Okay with This”; ABC’s “Stumptown”; Comedy Central’s “Drunk History”; TruTv’s “I’m Sorry,” and Showtime’s “On Becoming a God in Central Florida” all saw promised new seasons canceled as a direct result of COVID-19, their ne...
When some programs returned after production delays, their characters were wearing masks. Several series, including ABC's "Grey's Anatomy," NBC's "Law and Order: SVU," "Superstore" and "This Is Us" and CBS' "All Rise," made the pandemic part of their fictional worlds. "Grey's" portrayed life at a hospital during the height of the pandemic, with bur...
If you've noticed fewer outdoor or other location scenes in your favorite recent shows, you're not alone. For safety reasons, some studios put the brakes on elaborate set-ups, which require more time, money and precautionary measures, especially in a pandemic. COVID-19 protocols forced producers to spend as much as 30% more to produce the same numb...
COVID-19 restrictions, especially social distancing, have directly affected what viewers see in other ways, from intimate scenes in daytime soap operas – actors' spouses stood in as romantic partners – to police shows. CW's "Walker" had to use computer graphics to approximate spit. “Now, there’s a lot of things we can’t do," “S.W.A.T.”star Shemar M...
Awards shows attempted to make do with virtual ceremonies that followed COVID-19 safety measures, but couldn't come close to matching pre-pandemic audiences. They were hurt by the lack of red-carpet fashions and unfamiliar movie titles, as theaters remained closed in much of the country. Emmys ratings sunk to a record low 6.1 million viewers, while...
Awards show hosts weren’t the only ones playing to empty arenas. Sporting events used cardboard cutouts of fans to fill empty venues. The NFL used artificial crowd noise, while talk shows, "America's Funniest Home Videos" and the NBA employed fans in Zoomed-in audiences. And Fox’s “The Masked Singer” inserted old footage of live audiences to make i...
The early months of the pandemic turned oddball true-crime and reality shows into necessary comfort food. Netflix's "Tiger King" was one of the streaming platform’s top docuseries for the year, along with “Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez.” Innovative dating shows “Love is Blind” and “Too Hot To Handle” also had chemistry with viewers.
Reality competitions adapted more nimbly than scripted series, as NBC's "America's Got Talent" moved production outdoors, ABC's "American Idol" sent camera equipment to finalists' homes and CBS' "Big Brother" enlisted an all-star cast, enabling all of them to stick close to their planned schedules. Others, such as ABC's "Dancing with the Stars"went...
Jul 2, 2021 · Best One-Man Show: Mike Colter in Social Distance. Image via Netflix. Created by Hilary Weisman Graham, Netflix's Social Distance did its best to deliver a range of pandemic-set anthology stories ...
Feb 23, 2021 · Elizabeth Sisson/NBC. Some series have put the pandemic in a starring role. Most medical dramas have delved into the pandemic, but in different ways. Fox’s “The Resident” and ABC’s “Grey’s...
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1 day ago · USA TODAY. 0:08. 0:30. Dr. Anthony Fauci is set to appear on Capitol Hill Monday morning in a Congressional hearing focusing on his response to the COVID-19 pandemic and theories on the origin of ...
Jan 7, 2022 · Covid is over. At least it is in this show’s Manhattan, as well as in a cohort of other series that try, wishfully, to press the epidemiological fast-forward button. In the real world, the Omicron...
