CNN DECADES MARATHON: TELEVISION EPISODES
CNN, 4:00 p.m. ET
I started talking about television on CNN in a documentary miniseries called The Sixties, leading off that nonfiction series by being part of an hour devoted to the decade in television. That first outing isn’t repeated tonight, but the TV-focused openers of the next four CNN decades miniseries are, starting with The Seventies: TV Gets Real at 4 p.m. ET. That’s followed by the two-hour TV episode of The Eighties at 5 p.m. ET, the two-hour TV episode of The Nineties at 7 p.m. ET, and the two-hour TV episode of The 2000s at 9 p.m. ET. I’m in all of them, briefly – and now that it’s January 1, 2021, I hope to be contacted soon, post-pandemically, and invited to take part in CNN’s television episode of The 2010s. Because, after all, that decade ended yesterday (by some accounts, anyway), so time’s a-wasting. And a-passing…