I don't think there is a national pasttime. Watching TV is a national pasttime. Really. If there is a national pasttime, it is watching TV.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
In terms of representation, television is reflecting an era that has passed. It's the wrong time; it's the wrong period. In all sorts of television, it doesn't feel like the 21st century.
Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.
American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television.
The biggest difference between British TV and American TV is money. But what money doesn't do on American TV, which I thought it would, is buy you time. You don't get more time. You get more toys.
Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.
I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.
One of the big secrets of finding time is not to watch television.
The national pastime is juiced.
The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.