How the Coronavirus Crisis Turned Governor Andrew Cuomo Into a TV Sensation (Column)

variety.com:

High on the list of things that nobody could have predicted just a few weeks ago is the emergence of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo as a buzzy daytime TV draw.

Cuomo’s expansive daily media briefings on the state of the coronavirus pandemic that has spread quickly through the Empire State have become national news, airing live in their entirety this week across most cable news networks, including Fox News and CNN, as well as YouTube, Twitter and a host of other platforms. “The Andrew Cuomo Show,” as it were, is a strangely compelling mix that is part “West Wing” revival, part therapy session and most important, a credible source of important information about the contagion that has abruptly upended every aspect of life in the U.S.