we told how people have been putting
their Christmas lights back up to help
spread some cheer during these stressful
times and turns out television is
following suit airing holiday movies to
take people's minds off the crisis it's
just one of the entertainment options
available as you hunker down at home
it's beginning to look a lot like
Christmas on TV today the Hallmark
Channel launched a Christmas movie
marathon like comfort food it's Comfort
television to get us through the corona
virus outbreak people are looking for
comfort right now they're also looking
for like throw backs to things that they
knew from other times Christmas movies
in general just evoke a sense of family
looking for entertainment that's more
chilling this weekend with theaters
across the USA shut down the movie
industry is taking the unprecedented
step of making several new films like
the horror flick The Invisible Man
available for at home viewing the period
film Emma is also available on several
platforms but the movies will cost you
$19.99 some people feel like it's very
expensive but then some people say well
when you figure if you go to the theater
you're buying food you're paying for
parking you might be paying for a
babysitter that this is actually a
reasonable amount
the popularity of movies about pandemics
are surging on Netflix Gwyneth Paltrow's
contagion is the third most popular
movie the 1995 film outbreak which
follows the spread of an Ebola like
virus is the fifth most watched the
donkey series pandemic how to prevent an
outbreak is ranked sixth one more way to
pass the time this weekend try at home
workouts dr. Oz's fitness trainer Yousef
Myers shows us how grocery bags filled
with bottles of water and paired goods
make for perfect hand weights and these
chair squats are great to go along with
all of that TV watching
and tango