Is There a Way to Emulate Cable Boxes?

I wonder sometimes if they're going if more apps or services are going to try and emulate linear TV on. If you click on the crown channel it will play an episode of the crown and then just keep playing with Netflix but you're sort of tuned into a channel. It's very interesting technology-wise is almost everything else streaming-wise is it's non-linearYou can watch it whenever you want that's the whole point and the whole appeal right? You know maybe if you have a bunch of colleagues and everybody watches Game of Thrones on Sunday night you kind of do want to watch Sunday night because all of your colleagues are going to be talking about it the next morning. How do you