Contemporary Quality TV: The Entertainment Experience of Complex Serial Narratives

Lately, so-called quality TV series have been extremely successful-both in terms of audience shares and critical acclaim. Thus, the purpose of this chapter is to define the concept of quality serial television, giving a brief history of its development, systematizing its characteristics, and modeling the entertainment experience. I will argue that quality TV as a culturally bound, discursive construct functions as a meta-genre with concrete implications for selection, experience and possible effects of entertaining quality TV. This argument is summarized in a model of the quality TV entertainment experience.

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Annals of the International Communication Association. – 2016. – Vol. 40, № 1. – P. 95–124.