Death of Late Night Television

[MU82]

It's not. After 8 minutes, he lets the med students take turns while he plays games on his phone. Occasionally he'll glance at what they have done and, if necessary, suggest ways they can correct their errors. I cannot believe that you do not know this.

Eight minutes is a lot longer than the attention span of many scoopers when they read posts that do not align with their views.

Stopped reading after "It's not."

[tower912]

It's not. After 8 minutes, he lets the med students take turns while he plays games on his phone. Occasionally he'll glance at what they have done and, if necessary, suggest ways they can correct their errors. I cannot believe that you do not know this.

Eight minutes is a lot longer than the attention span of many scoopers when they read posts that do not align with their views.

Gotta read all of the way to the end to find the most mockable nuggets.

[JWags85]

You could not possibly be any more wrong about the bolded. The pace and production value of Sesame Street on the recent HBO episodes compared to episodes from even just a decade ago is radically different. My kids (4 & 7) have avidly watched those at times of their childhood, but if I try to put an old episode of those (or god forbid, Mr. Rogers, which I grew up on) they will become disinterested in minutes and either change the channel or go do something else.

Yea, not that you're disagree with me, but clarifying I meant more the "new generation".  Nina and Chris have been the 2 mainstays since the mid 2010s, if I recall, which is also when it moved to HBO, and anything in that time frame is interchangeable.  Occasionally, my son was into song compilations from a bunch of episodes on YouTube and it was a STARK difference when any of the older stuff showed up.

I'm really trying to be less online and less in my phone, and it's made me realize how much pretty much anyone under the age of 60 is just constantly absorbed. People are scrolling more, watching shorter pieces of content that only have to keep them engaged for 3-5 minutes, then moving on to the next.

Its really so bad and something I desperately need to work on myself.  My screen addiction is horrific.  I was just thinking specifically about reading the other day.  I don't read as many books as I used to, but I still read a ton.  I HATE to not know, so I'm constantly looking up articles or entries about stuff I'm unfamiliar with when I encounter it.  But my reading is even fractured.  I'll have 75 tabs open on my computer or phone at a time.  I'll read articles in 3 min clips, go away from it, come back and finish it later or in another 2 clips.  It gets the job done I suppose, but its terrible for my attention span/focus.

[brewcity77]

Yea, not that you're disagree with me, but clarifying I meant more the "new generation".  Nina and Chris have been the 2 mainstays since the mid 2010s, if I recall, which is also when it moved to HBO, and anything in that time frame is interchangeable.  Occasionally, my son was into song compilations from a bunch of episodes on YouTube and it was a STARK difference when any of the older stuff showed up.

Not disagreeing, I definitely think we're on the same page. Anything more than 10 years old, whether the stuff from the 1970s-2000s that actually looks old or that random 10-15 years when they had crappy animation during the PBS cost-cutting years and my kids will just tune out.

Also, agree that it's still popular. Same that we've done two Sesame Street Live shows and went to Sesame Place outside Philly and they were wildly popular with young kids. And I credit that to HBO. The production level this last decade has been really high and it's well tailored to modern attention spans with 2-4 minute skits throughout the show. I'm sure some will laugh, but the HBO Sesame Street intro is some of the best visual television I've ever seen. Cookie Monster's fur looks like you could pet him on the screen, Abby's magic dust looks like it's coming at you, it's very visually appealing and why I think the franchise still has legs today. It would've been dead without HBO turning it around, and they did it very well.