I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!
So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.