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The TV year started like most others; cricket and tennis. Then coronavirus arrived, turning our screens and devices into shelters in the storm, closing down live TV shows and bringing the global film and TV production sectors to a virtual stand-still.
In some ways TV was nothing like we’d seen before: panel shows with remote guests; sport in empty stadiums with dubbed crowd noises; “shiny floor” music and dance shows in studios devoid of audiences. But in other ways, TV was exactly the same, even more so as we flocked to news and current affairs bulletins and devoured entertainment shows to escape from a very difficult reality.