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May 12, 2020 · From 11th – 17th May 2020, follow Xenia, John, Justin and Chow from TheSmartLocal as they live stream their lives 24/7 to show how they are coping with this Circuit Breaker. Join them as they take part in games and challenges from their homes, battling it out to see who will emerge as The Quarantine champion.
- Best One-Man Show: Mike Colter in Social Distance
- Best One-Woman Show: Kaitlyn Dever in Coastal Elites
- Outstanding Achievement in Reality Television: Top Chef
- Outstanding Achievement in Horror, Pandemic-Produced Or Otherwise: Host
- Most Interesting Attempt by Broadcast TV to Take on The Pandemic: Grey's Anatomy
- Most Bonkers Attempt by Broadcast TV to Take on The Pandemic: Bull
- Best Use of Zoom: All Rise's "Dancing at Los Angeles"
- Best TV Cast Reunion: Happy Endings/Parks and Recreation
- Outstanding Achievement in Bored Celebrities Playing Themselves: Staged
- Still The Reigning Champion of Pandemic Television: Mythic Quest's "Quarantine"
Created by Hilary Weisman Graham, Netflix's Social Distance did its best to deliver a range of pandemic-set anthology stories, but the one that haunts me is the opening installment, "Delete All Future Events." Mike Colter, Luke Cage himself, carries the half-hour story of Ike, a recovering addict doing his best to stay distracted and sane. The dram...
Coastal Elites occupies a very strange space in terms of genre and format — consisting of five monologues written by famed playwright and screenwriter Paul Rudnick, the HBO "special event" was originally conceived as a stage event. But Rudnick reworked it to tackle not just the political climate but the pandemic, Black Lives Matter, and more for a ...
Top Chef has always risen above most reality TV because of the way it generally manages to avoid getting distracted by the drama and instead stay focused on what matters — the food. Season 18, set in Portland, took this to a new level by finding a way to shoot safely during the pandemic, in ways that did create noticeable changes to the show's form...
So I confess that I have not actually watched Host, because when it comes to horror I am a giant scardycat. But Collider's own Vinnie Mancuso did and he loved it, calling it "the only quarantine story that connected in 2020." As he wrote last December: If you are not a scardycat and you want to check it out, Hostis currently streaming on Shudder. R...
A lot of broadcast shows, especially procedurals, chose to let the pandemic be a present yet rarely important part of the storytelling, to the frustration of folks like Vulture's Kathryn VanArendonk, who really wanted Olivia Benson to be better about wearing a damn mask. Grey's Anatomy, though, put the pandemic front and center from the beginning o...
The Season 5 premiere of CBS procedural Bull wasn't just hard to watch because of the ongoing and poorly resolved issues of sexual misconduct which still hover around the show. It also was just a hella weird episode of television, tracking what happens when Jason Bull (Michael Weatherly) takes on a new case during the pandemic... Except that most o...
Again, a lot of broadcast shows found ways to acknowledge the pandemic in their storytelling, but CBS's now-canceled All Rise was an early adopter when it came to the all-Zoom format, revealing its potential for essentially the filmmaking equivalent of an epistolary novel. The only unifying narration came from a local DJ whose musical choices creat...
There were a number of these sorts of reunions, but these two did the best job at the following: 1. Actually producing a scripted episode that felt in line with the original series while acknowledging current events. 2. Coming up with good explanations as to why all the characters — including married couples — were not present in the same living sp...
If you enjoy David Tennant and/or Michael Sheen (and honestly, if you don't, I don't know what to say to you), the opportunity to watch the two veteran actors and alleged friends spar with each other is a joy, even if it's happening over Zoom. Staged is on the face of things fiction, focusing on what happens when the play that Tennant and Sheen wer...
When I reviewed "Quarantine" for its premiere in May 2020, I called it "TV's first coronavirus era masterpiece," and the thing is, nothing since has really managed to dethrone it. (With the potential exception of Inside.) Still, this special episode of Mythic Quest remains a perfect capsule of honest emotion, with solid jokes never compromising the...
- “90 Day Fiance” (Hulu) The TLC series follows couples in which one partner is foreign-born and arrives in the U.S. on a 90-day visa that will force them to return home if they don't marry by the time it expires.
- “The Amazing Race” (Hulu, Amazon) A scavenger hunt writ large with teams racing around the globe for a cash prize, this stalwart competition series' tried and true formula has sustained it for 31 seasons and garnered 15 Emmys.
- “America’s Next Top Model” (Amazon) A few shows have tried to recreate the melodrama of “ANTM,” to no avail. A combination of Tyra Banks’ outsized personality, the outsized demands of the fashion industry and the outsized conflict that comes from sticking young wannabe models together for weeks combined to create magic in this 2003-18 series, which aired on UPN, CW and VH1.
- “The Bachelor”/“The Bachelorette” (HBO Max, ABC) If the bachelors and bachelorettes of ABC's long-running reality dating franchise can find love in a hopeless place (in front of millions of TV viewers), then there's hope for the rest of us, too.
Oct 15, 2020 · TIME's TV critic says quarantine TV is the last thing we need right now. Hastily put-together shows about life in quarantine are flooding the small screen. Why are they all so bad?
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Mar 30, 2020 · A Quarantine TV Show For Every Mood. Ariana Romero. Last Updated March 30, 2020, 11:30 AM. Photo: Courtesy of ABC. The world feels like a scary place right now. New reports about the COVID-19...
Jun 25, 2020 · Learn how TV shows are adapting to COVID-19 lockdown, from animation and social distancing to format changes and schedule delays. Find out which shows are still filming, which are postponed, and which are streaming exclusively.
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