CUOMO PRIME TIME
CNN, 10:00 p.m. ET
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo revealed this week he has tested positive for the coronavirus – and instead of stopping work as a network news anchor, continues to organize and host Cuomo Prime Time. He does it, though, quarantined in and telecasting from the basement of his home, presiding over TV’s most personal front-line account of the current pandemic. (He talks of the nightly fevers and chills, the chest contractions, the fear of not being able to breathe, as something worse than anything he’s ever endured.) Cuomo Prime Time usually is televised at 9 p.m. ET. Tonight it begins an hour later, at 10 – but only because Cuomo’s fellow CNN colleagues, Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, are presenting a special CNN town meeting on the pandemic at 8. And by the way, though this observation and recommendation is anything but incidental: Around noon ET each weekday, Chris Cuomo’s older brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, holds a televised live press conference about New York’s status regarding the coronavirus. So each weekday, at different hours of the day, these two brothers are contributing mightily to their viewers’ understanding of this current crisis. Surely, that’s unprecedented. Personally, it’s also inspirational.