AFV@HOME
ABC, 7:00 p.m. ET
This is not a recommendation: America’s Funniest Home Videos, hosted by Bob Saget, premiered on ABC back in 1989. It’s been around most of the time since then, with host and title tweaks, except for taking little more than a year off at the start of the new century. But even counting from 2001, this ABC series is one of TV’s most tenured shows – older, at this point, than any continuing prime-series except for 60 Minutes, 20/20, The Simpsons, Dateline NBC, Law & Order: SVU and Survivor. It started when home video recording and camcorders were big, and survived throughout the birth and spread of the Internet, which you’d think would have made it obsolete. Yet here it is, now lasting into the pandemic era, capitalizing on our national sequestering efforts by newly emphasizing the “home” in home video. Hence the new title, and approach.