Television criticism

Television criticism is the act of writing or speaking about television programming with a view to evaluating its worth, meaning and other aspects. Such criticism can be found in daily newspapers, on culture discussion shows (on TV and radio), and in specialist books and periodicals, all of which are in direct competition for audience from television.

Overview

Since television is so accessible to so many people, most newspapers carry TV listings and these are often accompanied by criticism even just to the extent of recommending a particular programme or programmes from that day's selection of viewing. Television criticism is a way for us to share and gain information about television shows. There are so many options to watch that it may be hard to complete by yourself.[1]

Television will often provide a forum for criticising itself. In the United Kingdom, The Review Show on BBC Four hosts a monthly discussion on the arts with a television series often featuring. Also in the UK is Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe which takes an incisive though humorous look at current television.

Due to its nature of episodic review, it was hard for TV criticism to really take off before the internet age. Now TV critics have the luxury of covering a weekly television show nearly instantaneously via a website.

gollark: Why not play...VANILLA to the endgame?
gollark: Why not play...GregTech New Horizons?
gollark: <@148963262535434240> Depends on the rad output of the reactors.
gollark: Like the old AMD bulldozer CPUs and how they were marketed as 8-core but did not actually work that well.
gollark: I mean, not entirely *meaningless*, but given that this mineputer probably runs on architectures weirder than our own it's unlikely to actually be quad-core in the same way.

See also

References
  1. O'Donnell, Victoria (2016-01-22). Television Criticism. ISBN 9781483377698.


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