the rise of reality television as a core genre and the pervasive spread of serial narrative across a wide range of fictional formats.
This part stood out to me because it shows how TV in the 2000s wasn’t just about typical scripted shows. Reality tv became very popular, and a lot of shows started having ongoing storylines that kept viewers interested and coming back.
the ways that DVDs and their popularity allow television to be consumed and collected has drastically changed the place of the television series in the cultural landscape as well as altering the narrative possibilities available to creators.
This makes sense because DVDs let people binge shows before streaming existed. I think that it definitely gave more freedom to TV creators in how they told their stories since they could plan longer storylines knowing people could watch it all at their own speed.
After all, the first true use of theopen-ended series format would seem to be the news bulletin, endlesslyupdating events and never synthesising them
This is interesting because it shows how TV and storytelling started with the news. News bulletins keep updating events and don’t have a real ending. I can see how this helped TV later create shows with storylines that continue on over time.
Broadcast TV on the other hand carries large amounts of non-fiction:news, documentaries, announcements, weather forecasts, various kinds ofsegments that are purely televisual in their characteristic forms
TV is really different from movies because it shows a lot of real life content, such as news and documentaries. I think this is why TV can feel like it’s more diverse, since it mixes real life content with fictional stories.
Commercial entertainment cinema is overwhelmingly a narrative fictionmedium
This makes sense because most movies we watch are stories with character and plots. TV, on the other hand, can have documentaries or news, while movies usually just have fictional stories. I wonder if this is why movies feel more complete while TV can feel like a mix of different kinds of content.