and something of a glamour couple: he had been a rising star at Granada Television, and she had been a reporter for the Guardian and Reuters. He and his wife, Evelyn, were English immigrants to the U.S. The program was created by a young producer at WGBH, Boston’s public-television station, named Christopher Sarson. But, unlike Zoom the online platform, “Zoom” was mostly the province of kids, primarily those in the tween cohort. Like the teleconferencing service, the original “Zoom” was screen-based and interactive, and it quickly evolved into a national obsession. Among older members of Generation X, it’s hard to hear the word “zoom” without associating it with “Zoom,” one of the most memorable and radically experimental television programs of its era. The transition from in-office meetings to at-home video conferencing has occasioned lots of memes and social-media posts about “ my idea of a Zoom meeting,” usually accompanied by a grainy video or photo of haphazardly barbered nineteen-seventies children romping around in striped rugby shirts. Some original cast members of “Zoom,” including Bernadette Yao, emerged as national celebrities during their abbreviated tenure on TV.
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