While New York plunged into survival mode, the three aspiring documentarians, all involved with the youth film-making program DCTV Youth Media, picked up their cameras. Their short films, collected along with two others in HBO’s Covid Diaries NYC, observe the dizzying freefall days of early quarantine, from the corrosive fear of sending off loved ones to frontline jobs to the toll of isolation, the family strain of sudden unemployment to the summer’s electric charge of protests for racial justice. The six-minute films are all the more impressive in their brevity, each memorializing, in casual, stripped-down fashion, an individual thread of the generational catastrophe spinning through New York.
(The CW, 8 p.m.): It’s been a long road for Barry Allen. First he was just a normal extremely young CSI professional for a fictional police department, and then he got zapped by a particle accelerator and became the Flash. Then he figured out how to time travel, and then he time-traveled really badly and screwed everything up, and then a bunch of other stuff happened and he developed other super-speed-related powers. Flash-punches! Flash-wall-climbing! Flash-pancake-making! Here we are many seasons later and Barry Allen is still developing new super-skills, and tonight’s is one that might have come in handy back when he was accidentally flashpointing John Diggle’s kid out of existence: speed-thinking!
Airdate: COVID Diaries NYC HBO documentary This premieres this week in the USA. COVID Diaries NYC, chronicles the lives of five young filmmakers, ranging in age from 17 to 21, who turn their cameras on themselves to tell the stories of their families during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. The deeply personal film illuminates the plight of essential workers and their families during the early days of the COVID-19 crisis as they navigate the deadly virus and a country riven by social upheaval. “The Only Way to Live in Manhattan” follows Marcial Pilataxi, who lives with and helps his grandmother at a building where she works as the superintendent. They wrestle with the increasing amounts of tenants’ garbage because of those sheltering at home. Marcial makes food deliveries and tries to maintain normalcy with his friends as the city he knows changes against the backdrop of the pandemic and a city torn apart by unrest in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.
The Voice Season 20 to Premiere in March with Nick Jonas Returning (TV News Roundup) Haley Bosselman, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail DATES A Salute to Black Achievements in Television presented by Citi” beginning Feb. 1. The annual celebration spotlights significant contributions from Black icons, innovators and leaders in media and entertainment. Programming includes “ For Life in Conversation with Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson” Feb. 1 at Netflix’s “ The Negro Leagues and Black women in government and politics on TV on Feb. 28. While these screenings and panels will be available on the Paley Center’s YouTube page, interactive experiences with archival content will also be available on its website.