Talk:TV format

Removed definition
I moved the following material from the article to here: A definition of a TV Progam format could be the next: "...The frame or the structure of (cross)mediale expression in which the each time returning (characteristic) elements have been fixed, which builds to a distinctive and result-oriented contact with the target group. On basis of which the balanced mix of content, entertainment and interaction (repeatedly) can be produced...." [source: Daphne Dijkerman, January 2006] I think the above points need addressing before the text can get placed back in. --BillC 23:24, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) It's not clear who Daphne Dijkerman is, and why her view on TV Program formats is important;
 * 2) It appears to have been machine-translated from the Dutch Wikipedia article, and doesn't make much sense in English;
 * 3) It appears to have been copied from here.

Text similar to the above has again been added to the article without discussion here. Let me re-iterate the questions above. In addition:
 * 1) A blog is not considered a reliable source for the purposes of citing information in Wikipedia.
 * 2) It makes no distinction between this individual's opinion and what might be a commonly accepted definition of a format.

Please discuss this here on the talk page before adding it back again. Thank you. --BillC 17:49, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Article renaming
In 2009 the article was moved from "TV program format" to "Program format", with rationale "Changed to more accurate terminology."

It seems the most common term is "TV format," so I'm retitling/moving the article to that.--Sum (talk) 10:53, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Merge with television/media franchise and write replacement
I expect this article to discuss things like whether a comedy is shot in front of a live audience (or pretend to) versus, say, a single camera format—i.e., production details that show through in the way a series is presented, where we can end up "binning" series into particular formats, sometimes cutting across genres.

Instead, this article is talking about "formats" as something more specific—some particular IP for different regional markets, like "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?", "The Office", etc. I find this weird. That sounds like it's more appropriate for the article on television franchises (which is currently not a separate article of its own, but instead rolled in to the article on media franchises).

In the case of copycats, which don't necessarily belong to the same franchise—since the original creator/distributor/etc won't have anything to do with them—I do think it would *probably* be appropriate to give them some mention here, but it doesn't merit much more attention than a glorified footnote. The main thing is that the article gives coverage to, say, the details between a sitcom like Seinfeld versus a sitcom like The Office. -- C. A. Russell ( talk ) 16:45, 28 April 2018 (UTC)