The television landscape grows bigger and broader with each passing year. While we don’t have figures for 2022 yet, a record 559 scripted shows rolled out in 2021, according to statista.com. If we assume that each series contains, oh, say, eight 45-minutes episodes per season on average, that’s 3,354 hours of TV. To watch it all, an enterprising TV viewer would need to set aside 64.5 hours a week. And remember, we’re just talking about scripted shows. If our theoretical viewer wanted to see a football game or The Masked Singer, you can forget going out to eat ever again. Or sleeping.
You’d assume that more content means more problems. And our television reviewers at Plugged In tabulated plenty of ’em, to be sure. But statistically, more shows would mean more of them would be...