Dictionary area
Television, documentary & unscripted
Series commissioning, episodic systems, factual storytelling and repeatable formats.
380 entries
Scripted television
188 entries- 6 x 30
- 8 x 45
- Ad load
- Anthology series
- Audience promise
- AVOD
- Back nine
- Back order
- Backdoor pilot
- Batch release
- Beat board
- Binge release
- Bingeability
- Blue-sky development
- Bottle episode
- Break a season
- Break an episode
- Break story
- Broadcast act
- Broadcast clearance
- Broadcaster
- Buy
- Cancellation
- Cards
- Case bank
- Case-of-the-week series
- Catch-up service
- Channel
- Clip show
- Closed-ended episode
- Co-executive producer
- Co-producer (writer-producer credit)
- Comedy series
- Commercial break
- Commission
- Commissioner
- Commissioning editor
- Crossover
- Cumulative series
- Current programming executive
- Cut review
- Daytime television
- Delivery rejection
- Development executive
- Development room
- Development slate
- Drama series
- Episode
- Episode arc
- Episode assignment
- Episode breakdown
- Episode code
- Episode count
- Episode delivery
- Episode grammar
- Episode guide
- Episode loop
- Episode number
- Episode order
- Episode outline
- Episode runtime
- Episode seven test
- Episode springboard
- Episode synopsis
- Episode title
- Episode two test
- Episodic
- Episodic anthology
- Episodic-serial hybrid
- Episodic series
- Event series
- Executive story editor
- FAST
- Filler episode
- Final season
- Format adaptation
- Format line
- Free-to-air television
- Freelance episode
- Future seasons
- Greenlight
- Half-hour
- Holiday special
- Hour-long
- Hybrid series
- Initial order
- Kill
- Limited series
- Linear television
- Local adaptation
- Mini-episode
- Mini-room
- Miniseries
- Monster-of-the-week series
- Multi-camera sitcom
- Multi-part episode
- Mythology episode
- Network
- Network or studio notes
- Network pass
- Notes grid
- On-demand television
- Ongoing series
- Open-ended episode
- Outlier episode
- Park
- Pay television
- Pickup
- Pilot
- Pilot order
- Pilot pickup
- Pilot presentation
- Pilot problem
- Pilot synopsis
- Pilot-to-series engine
- Pitch out
- Premiere
- Prequel series
- Primetime
- Producer (writer-producer credit)
- Programming executive
- Public-service broadcaster
- Put pilot
- Read-through
- Renewal
- Reset series
- Returnability
- Returning series
- Revival
- Room document
- Room tone (writers' room sense)
- Schedule
- Script coordinator
- Scripted researcher
- Scripted television
- Season
- Season arc
- Season character arc
- Season order
- Season overview
- Seasonal anthology
- Sequel series
- Serialized
- Serialized series
- Series
- Series arc
- Series chassis
- Series creator
- Series engine
- Series format
- Series launch
- Series order
- Series pickup
- Series promise
- Series runway
- Short-form series
- Showrunner
- Showrunner's assistant
- Single-camera series
- Situation comedy
- Slot
- Special
- Spin-off
- Staff writer
- Standards and practices
- Story area
- Story bank
- Story breaking
- Story editor
- Story-of-the-week
- Straight-to-series order
- Studio pass
- Supervising producer
- Table read
- Tag
- Television procedural
- Television reboot
- Television remake
- The board
- Two-parter
- TX
- Typical episode
- Vertical series
- Webisode
- Weekly release
- Writers' room
- Writers' room assistant
- Written by
Documentary, factual & unscripted
192 entries- Access
- Access documentary
- Access fallback
- Access letter
- Access risk
- Access statement
- Accuracy
- Actuality
- Actuality sequence
- Adjudication
- Adventure format
- Aftercare
- Allegation
- Anonymous contributor
- Archival audio
- Archival footage
- Archival still
- Archive
- Archive clearance
- Archive-led documentary
- Archive log
- Archive plan
- Arts documentary
- Assistant producer
- Authored documentary
- Biographical documentary
- Blue-chip natural history
- Case file
- Cast pool
- Castability
- Casting producer
- Casting tape
- Chain of custody
- Challenge
- Character-led documentary
- Character tape
- Chronology
- Cinéma vérité
- Competition format
- Compliance
- Compliance producer
- Conditional access
- Confidential source
- Constructed reality
- Contributor
- Corroboration
- Current affairs
- Daily format
- Dating format
- Development producer
- Direct cinema
- Disputed claim
- Docu-soap
- Documentary
- Docuseries
- Duty of care
- Edit producer
- Editorial compliance
- Editorial control
- Editorial independence
- Elimination
- Elimination format
- Embedded access
- Episode rundown
- Essay documentary
- Event documentary
- Evidence
- Evidence plan
- Exclusive access
- Expert contributor
- Expository documentary
- Fact-checking
- Factual
- Factual entertainment
- Field producer
- Final cut
- Finished format
- Fixed format element
- Fixed-rig documentary
- Fixer
- Fly-on-the-wall
- Follow documentary
- Food factual
- Format arc
- Format beat
- Format deck
- Format franchise
- Format mechanic
- Format pilot
- Format point
- Format repeatability
- Format twist
- Game advantage
- Game show
- Gameplay
- Gatekeeper
- Heat
- Hidden-camera format
- History factual
- Hybrid documentary
- Immunity
- Informed consent
- Intended access
- International format
- Interview
- Interviewee
- Investigative documentary
- Investigative hypothesis
- Issue-led documentary
- Judging
- Lifestyle factual
- Local version
- Location release
- Logger
- Makeover format
- Material release
- Natural history
- Nonfiction
- Observational documentary
- Ongoing consent
- Paper edit
- Paper format
- Paper trail
- Participant
- Participant care
- Participant release
- Participant welfare
- Participatory documentary
- Performative documentary
- Personal archive
- Play-along
- Poetic documentary
- Popular factual
- Portrait documentary
- Prank format
- Presenter-led factual
- Primary source
- Privacy
- Privileged access
- Prize
- Producer-director
- Proof of access
- Public interest
- Public record
- Quiz show
- Re-enactment
- Reality television
- Reconstruction
- Reflexive documentary
- Research bible
- Researcher
- Returning format
- Right of reply
- Round
- Run-through
- Running order
- Safeguarding
- Science factual
- Scoring
- Secondary source
- Secured access
- Segment
- Series producer
- Shooting producer
- Sit-down interview
- Social experiment format
- Source
- Source protection
- Specialist factual
- Story producer
- Strip
- Structured reality
- Survival format
- Talent format
- Talking head
- Task
- Taster tape
- Technical pilot
- Testimony
- Tie-break
- Travelogue
- True crime
- Unscripted television
- Variable format element
- Verification
- Vox pop
- Vulnerable participant
- Walk-and-talk interview
- Weekly format
- Welfare protocol
- Withdrawal
- Witness