The television season comes to an official end tonight on a pretty old-fashioned note. A winner of the 36th season of “Survivor” (8 p.m., CBS, TV-PG) is crowned as the contrived shenanigans on Ghost Island come to an end. A live reunion show follows (10 p.m., TV-PG).
If somebody had told me back in 2003 that “Survivor” and “American Idol” would still loom large as the 2018 TV season concluded, I would be surprised. If they had predicted a “new” “Roseanne” and “Murphy Brown,” I’d be a tad depressed.
Of course, nobody in 2003 would probably have predicted the rise of Netflix and other streaming services as the creative driving force in television programming.
