Wow! That's Something You Don't See Everyday!

When tragedies and epidemics start, television shows are created to give their audience a time in the day to get the stressful times out of their minds. Sounds about right, don't you think? While everyone was running around not knowing what to do during the AIDS epidemic that's when vampire movies started to spring up. Since many people today are worrying about the war on terror, They have many television shows about the government and trying to bring them down, as in 24. So if people are trying to get their minds off of what's happening in the world around them, why are directors making so many of the same shows?