📻 Old Doordarshan shows had a certain charm new shows just cannot replicate

Came across a few old Doordarshan show clips online recently while browsing, and ended up spending a genuinely embarrassing amount of time going through an entire evening of old clips, rediscovering shows I had honestly forgotten I even used to watch regularly as a kid growing up with genuinely limited channel options available at the time. What struck me most watching these old clips again now as an adult is how unhurried and genuinely deliberate everything felt production wise, scenes that lingered considerably longer than anything would today, dialogue that took its own actual time rather than rushing toward the next specific plot point the way most modern shows seem to feel obligated to constantly do now. Part of that unhurried pacing was obviously a product of genuinely limited competition for viewer attention at the time, there simply were not dozens of other channels or an entire streaming platform's worth of content competing for the exact same viewer's limited attention span the way there clearly is now across every single platform available today. But there was also something genuinely intentional about the specific storytelling itself, shows that trusted viewers to actually sit with a scene rather than constantly cutting away to maintain pace and keep people from getting bored or switching channels entirely, an approach that feels genuinely impossible to properly sustain now given how much actual competition exists for any given viewer's attention at any specific moment. My parents, when I mentioned rediscovering these old clips to them recently, lit up immediately and spent a solid hour themselves reminiscing about specific shows and even individual specific episodes they still apparently remembered clearly enough to describe scene by scene in genuine detail decades later. Does anyone else find themselves occasionally returning to old Doordarshan content like this, and do you think that specific unhurried pacing could actually work again today, or has genuine viewer attention simply shifted too permanently for that kind of approach to actually succeed anymore in the current landscape?

My father kept a small notebook decades ago listing which evening each show aired, said missing one meant waiting a full week before any chance to catch it again. That kind of scarcity shaped how carefully people paid attention back then, compared to now when nothing feels missable given how easily anything gets replayed within seconds of asking for it.