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Covid 19 has certainly affected the entertainment industry.

Popular movies have been released straight to streaming with theaters shut down.

Another popular form of entertainment... sports.

Professional and collegiate sporting events have been canceled or postponed.

So what does the future hold for those industries... post-covid-19 pandemic?

Abc 36's cody adams takes a look.

We've already looked at the future of the restaurant industry... now we look at the future of entertainment post covid 19.

Recently we saw the release of trolls world tour skip right to our living rooms... could that be a regular thing in the future?

Lets take a look into our crystal ball with futurist theo edmonds.

These big events when you don't knwo what three months from now looks like it's almost impossible to figure out how you do that in the same way you have been.

A big concern for many of course is what covid 19 means for uk sports.

Edmonds has some good news for the future.... they're not going anywhere and the reasoning is stout.... tradition.

My grandma is 101 and she still looks forward to uk mens and womens games.

It's like clockwork for her, we're creatures of habit.

Sports may be the only place we can come together for a few hours depsite political beliefs.

Theo confirms what we believe, sporting events make us happy, well minus this of course.... even if that happiness lasts just for a moment theo says that combined with our need for c1 3 belonging is what will keep sports and entertainment relatively unchanged post covid 19.

As simple as they may sound these creat belonging cues that tell us we belong together, that's important in how society moves forward.

Looking into the future... cody adams... abc 36 news.

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