The TV shows that have shaped us - BBC Culture

From being dismissed as an inferior art form, TV has become our primary pop-culture vocabulary during the 21st Century, writes Jen Chaney.

The TV shows that have shaped us 19 October 2021 Share Save Add as preferred on Google Jen Chaney Features correspondent Efe Suárez From being dismissed as an inferior art form, TV has become our primary pop-culture vocabulary during the 21st Century, writes Jen Chaney. During much of its 20th-Century infancy and early childhood, television had a bad reputation. Known as a killer of intellects and a gateway to laziness and slothdom, it earned nicknames like "idiot box" and "boob tube". Actors cast in TV shows were considered inferior to those who did movies because cinema was the real art form

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