The year’s most compelling COVID TV shows The entertainment industry's response to the pandemic resulted in some great TV. And a sitcom By Norman Wilner NBC Universal NBC's Connecting... was the first network sitcom to tackle the pandemic. It lasted four episodes. The weight of COVID-19 has touched every aspect of human behaviour, up to and including the way we make TV shows. And it’s not just a question of how a given show is produced, but whether that show will even acknowledge the pandemic affecting its production. Some series are incorporating the coronavirus into their narratives – NBC’s Superstore and The Good Doctor, ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy – while others, like CBS comedy The Unicorn, aren’t acknowledging it but just happen to have a lot more scenes taking place outdoors this year.