Talk:Quality television

More and more info
Hi, I am adding more and more info to try and improve the article. The proposed deletion notice stated that it was like a rehash of a book chapter (e.g., Kristin Thompson). The Brittanica material was admittedly an addition of dubious value, but some of the new additions are on the topic. I have shown that several UK scholars use the term "Quality Television" to refer to many of the same programs referred to by Kristin Thompson. The new title for the article, "Quality television" is more defensible. Regarding Jason Mittell's suggestion that the information be integrated into another article, I note that there is no article in the television genre article list on quality television (or a similar topic, such as "serious television").Nazamo 19:41, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi, The list of categories for Wikipedia on Television series by genre includes Children's television, Christian television, Comedy television series, Educational television,Environmental television,Fishing television series,Gambling television programs,Music television channels,Musical episodes,Science fiction television S cont.,Sports television,Telethons,Travel television,Vampires in film and television ,Werewolves in film and television. ..........................I note that the "Quality Television" article could be filed under "Educational Television", as there is a cross-over. ....................Turning now to the actual articles on Wikipedia for "Television genres". They are: Taiwanese drama,Anthology series,Television comedy,Comedy-drama,Culebron,DanceLife,Docu-soap,Dramatic programming,Fantasy television,Fishing television series,Game opera,List of single-camera sitcoms,Medical drama,Paranormal television,Quality television,Reality television,Science fiction Western,Science fiction on television,Situation comedy,Soap opera,Space western,Superhero live-action television series,TV Single Dads,Tabloid talk show,Telefantasya,Telenovela,Téléroman,Televised sex line,Trash TV,Television Westerns............I think that a glance at the list of TV genre articles will show that the "quality television" article is not COMPETING with an existing article on a similar topic (although it could be a subtopic under Dramatic Programming).Nazamo 20:03, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

No anime WTF?
Currently, most of the quality television is anime, so I'm surprised there's no mention of it whatsoever. 95.181.12.52 (talk) 12:09, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Thompsons confusion
The quotation in the introduction (For example, Kristin Thompson's claim that "quality television" programs include ...) is not from Kristin Thompson, it's from another Thompson. You can look it up here: http://davidlavery.net/Collected_Works/Essays/FFWSBtVS_Intro.pdf —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.244.212.104 (talk) 21:25, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Cleanup
I tagged this article with quite a few cleanup templates. Unfortunately, it's got many issues. Here's a quick overview:
 * Many of the references are dead. See this report for details.  I'm not sure, but it looks like they're Google searches that have used as references.  Since they time out, I can't be sure.  I tried to extract the actual URL from one or two, but they didn't load.  I gave up in frustration and didn't try the others.  Someone needs to convert these into working, actual URLs, or they need to be removed.  The act-aet.tv link is also apparently dead.
 * Some of the references that work are simply vague assertions. This is not how references work.  Asserting that a researcher once used a term is not a reference; you must actually provide the source (book, journal, URL, etc).  I debated removing these references, but I ultimately left them alone, thinking that they might be salvageable somehow.  If nobody can come up with actual, real references, then they need to go, too.  The TV Guide citation is really very borderline, and I think it probably needs to either be filled out with issue and page, or it too needs to go.  Similarly, there are a few books that are half-cited.  They're missing lots of information (ISBN, page number, and even title), with entirely useless links that go to review sites.
 * Of the references that are left, they're really not notable or reliable enough. A quotation from a course syllabus?  That probably needs to go.
 * Vast portions of the article go without a single citation anywhere. They're full of original research and puffery related to what I can only assume are editors' favorite TV shows.  This article only just barely escapes being an example farm, though, now that I think of it, maybe I should have tagged it with that template, too.  It's debatable, but it might cut down on the useless pop-culture shout-outs.
 * This article breaks almost every rule of the manual of style that I can think of. I suggest that someone familiar with the MOS come in and do some merciless cleanup and editing.  I'll try to get around to it, eventually, if nobody else does.

I suggest recruiting some veteran editors and doing a rewrite. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 19:52, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Potentially useful source
Flow (flowtv.org) is an online journal dedicated to this article's topic. It may have some very useful articles. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 13:58, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

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Merge proposal
I propose to merge Prestige drama into this article. The section Quality television appears to be more detailed version of a "prestige drama" without the inline citations. Викидим (talk) 22:24, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I second this decision Espngeek (talk) 06:56, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I think it's distinct enough to merit its own article. Given that "prestige drama" is uniquely referenced (local example) as a separate kind of quality television. Ckoerner (talk) 00:58, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
 * If you happen to know the differences between Quality drama and Prestige drama, can you please add them (with sources) to the articles? (and at the very least just spell them here, no sources needed, I will figure the rest out myself). Thank you in advance! I had spent quite some time searching for sources, and, while it is easy to find (many) sources that use the terms as synonyms (for example, ), I did not find a single (!) source that spelled out the differences. Our internal links to the Prestige version mean little, as this might be just a use of a synonym. Викидим (talk) 04:30, 9 June 2024 (UTC)