CBS to air movies on Sunday nights, because it knows we’ll be around

We’re several weeks into lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic, and it’s possible that some people are starting to run out of things to watch. I mean, Netflix does have a finite number of things on it, right? At least in theory? And what do you do after you’ve seen everything there is to see on every streaming service out there? Even Quibi? Maybe it’s time to turn back to linear TV.

Plain old-fashioned TV networks certainly have more eyes on them than they’ve had in a while, what with so many people quarantined within their homes with nowhere to go. And CBS is making the most of it by announcing “Sunday Night At The Movies,” a weekly presentation of “acclaimed feature films from the Paramount Pictures library.”

Showing movies on Sunday nights was something networks used to do a lot back in the ’90s, before we had Twitter and Disney+ and YouTube to distract us. We still have all that stuff, but now that most of us have literally watched every YouTube video a couple times over as we search for stuff to do in quarantine, maybe we’re more open to this.

Anyway, here’s CBS’ schedule:

• May 3: Raiders Of The Lost Ark
• May 10: Forrest Gump
• May 17: Mission: Impossible (the first one, from 1996)
• May 24: Titanic
• May 31: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

And that’s the last movie in the lineup for the moment: open with Indy and close with Indy. Hopefully, CBS is saying that after May 31 we’ll be able to go outside again and won’t be interested in spending time with a famed Nazi-punching archeologist?

I probably shouldn’t get ahead of myself. Welcome back, normal television.

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h/t The A.V. Club