Reflections from an old timer in Paris: La Télé
La Télé – French TV in the 1980s
One cold, wet evening during a recent school holiday, we suggested a movie-and-pizza evening to our 12-year-old granddaughter. We spent an hour scrolling through all the channels in addition to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Apple TV, but every (suitable) movie was rejected or had already been seen. In the end we gave up and went out to eat the pizza we were going to order in. The old adage about the more channels there are, the less there is to see?
It's not that I’m nostalgic for the days of three-channel French TV, but I did have a pang for those times when we had what you might call community viewing, when you could be sure that most of your friends watched the same show the same day and you could dissect it together and share the pleasure of anticipating the next episode. Realising this, no doubt, some distributors of major recent series, like Succession and White Lotus, also released episodes on a week-by-week basis.
The 1980s wer…
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