Both are basic thinking skills and both activities serve as opportunities for parent-child communication about television programming. Come in now. The problem with this practice is that it does cut down on the amount and quality of interaction between parents and children. As children grow older, especially, parents need to build in regular opportunities for conversation about what's going on in their lives. Dinner time should be family time, not TV time.
Kids reluctantly get up and leave the room, with the TV still on.
TV signals after-dinner time change via a set of promos for prime time programs. At he doesn't really use that product. He's not playing a fictional character, so he's not an actor, but he's reading a script and performing. Yeah, it's more interesting to kids. And the topics are more sensational, too.