Yes, absolutely. Part of it is nostalgia. I remember Matt Haig saying that when he was in a severe depression, he re-watched all the films and TV shows he'd loved as a child. It soothed his mind. I guess it put him back in the warmth and security of childhood. I was a child of the 1980s, so I love the films of that decade (even the bad ones). And I sometimes go on youtube and watch clips of Oliver Postgate's TV shows. They have such sweetness and charm compared to the ugly, garish stuff they make now.
I much prefer old TV and film. Everything seems so loud and ugly and aggressive today. Just watch Blue Peter from the 1970s. It's so polite and genteel. We forget how much more crowded the world has become as well. In 1960 there were three billion humans. Today there are eight billion. Every year there seem to be more houses, more cars and more noise. Plus, thanks to IPhones, we never switch off. And that's all reflected in our TV and film. Everything is too fast-moving and ugly.
It's the same with literature. Most of my favourite writers (Oscar Wilde, P. G. Wodehouse, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, Virginia Woolf, etc) are either late Victorian or early 20th-century. They grew up in a much quieter, slower, emptier world, and you sense it in their writing. In 1900, there were just a billion humans. The world's population today is eight times larger! Think of C. S. Lewis' Narnia books, in which the children wander around this big, empty house. No one lives in a big, empty house now!! We all live in overpriced rabbit hutches jammed on top of one another. One of the things I love about the Sherlock Homes novels, or P. G. Wodehouse's Blandings books, is the world they create. It seems a much softer, quieter, more charming world. It's one of the things I love about The Wind in the Willows as well – that sense of calm and peace.
In a way I think I've pretty much opted out of the modern world. I almost never read contemporary fiction, never go to the cinema, and hardly watch TV. I generally watch old films or repeats of old TV shows. Another thing that really strikes me is the dumbing down. Just watch I Claudius. For a start, everyone speaks in a sharp, clear cut, RP accent, and they also speak quickly and eloquently. Same with Brideshead Revisited. If they were made today, critics would accuse them of elitism.