This occurred just before it moved to SyFy back in January 1997. The movie was “Day The World Ended”, and fans used chat rooms to riff on the movie. The riffs were mistimed, but it was an early version of tweeting while watching TV. I wrote something on this on my blog:
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I remember watching that to get the full hype of the upcoming season.
Sure, there weren’t any characters in that row of theater seats, but to just SEE the theater seats there was enough!
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I remember it. I only watched a little because, like you said, the riffs were mistimed. It didn’t work for me. But it was an interesting experiment in TV.
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