Are People Going to Watch More Old TV?

A while ago music industry-watchers noted that people seemed to be listening to (and even buying) more old music than before. Are they also watching more old TV shows?

I don't know.

Certainly those shows have never been more conveniently available than they in the age of streaming--but also never more likely to get lost in a sea of "content," while I think it all goes over differently with different audiences. For those of us who grew up with an expectation of TV as light entertainment rather than our sole cultural nourishment, and for whom reruns of shows that in many cases went off the air before we were even born were a staple of such light entertainment, may well be doing so--especially if, unimpressed by the pretentious, middlebrow, grimdark, edgelord stuff the critics claque for hardest (and it must be admitted, if finding it congenial to forget the twenty-first century every now and then).

By contrast the young may be more resistant. Still, it does not seem inconceivable that those more dissatisfied with the moment could find themselves pleasantly surprised by the charms of shows that they had initially been prone to write off simply because they came from their parents' day.