After David wrote that the Vision Pro is Apple’s secret TV project, I’ve seen many people say some variation of “watching TV is a group activity.” Is it?
Sure, I might be in the minority of viewers tuning in solo for F1 streams at 3AM, but ABC has killed the TGIF TV programming block three times in the last 25 years, and in Entertainment Weekly’s oral history, Family Matters co-creator Michael Warren explained why it was canceled the first time in 1997:
Households started getting two TV sets, and mom and dad started saying, “We don’t want to watch Family Matters. If you guys want to watch those, you can go to your room and watch your own TV.” And when the kids went in the other room, they didn’t watch those shows. They watched Friends.
In the era of phones and iPads, I wasn’t aware that we’d changed back?
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