Hollywood’s new normal means movie theaters are closed across the country, 120,000 crew members have lost their jobs and production has shut down. With sporting events halted and daytime talk shows on indefinite hiatus, live programming is essentially nonexistent. Most individuals within the entertainment business are out of work. If they’re lucky, they’re forced to work from home.
But for TV doctors, times have never been busier.
What the Super Bowl is to sports broadcasters, the coronavirus crisis is to medical correspondents — except they’re not in it for ratings, advertising dollars or entertainment value: Television doctors are working overtime to educate their viewers and keep audiences calmly informed during the biggest global pandemic in history.
“It’s a little bit like internship in medicine, which was actually the busiest time in my life,” Dr. Mehmet Oz says of his schedule in light of the coronavirus. “Swine flu...
But for TV doctors, times have never been busier.
What the Super Bowl is to sports broadcasters, the coronavirus crisis is to medical correspondents — except they’re not in it for ratings, advertising dollars or entertainment value: Television doctors are working overtime to educate their viewers and keep audiences calmly informed during the biggest global pandemic in history.
“It’s a little bit like internship in medicine, which was actually the busiest time in my life,” Dr. Mehmet Oz says of his schedule in light of the coronavirus. “Swine flu...
- 4/2/2020
- by Elizabeth Wagmeister
- Variety Film + TV
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