The last writer’s strike brought us ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos’ and ‘Cops’. I suspect the next crop of replacement drivel won’t be as ‘cultured’. Something for the people cheering for the disjointedness of American culture to keep in mind.
As if there’s been much “culture” (assuming you mean GOOD culture) from Hollywierd of late anyway.
Show biz is most appropriately understood as entertainment, not culture. A movie is no more significant than an athletic event or video game. At best they are lagging indicators of culture, not drivers. To believe otherwise is to buy into the entertainment world's inflated sense of self-importance and desperate need to be taken seriously, against a tsunami of argument to the contrary.