Krzysztof Kieślowski’s “Decalogue” as a Quality TV Series

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Unsupervised Text Recap Extraction for TV Series

Sequences found at the beginning of TV shows help the audience absorb the essence of previous episodes, and grab their attention with upcoming plots. In this paper, we propose a novel task, text recap extraction. Compared with conventional summarization, text recap extraction captures the duality of summarization and plot contingency between adjacent episodes. We present a new dataset, TVRecap,...

TVD: A Reproducible and Multiply Aligned TV Series Dataset

We introduce a new dataset built around two TV series from different genres, The Big Bang Theory, a situation comedy and Game of Thrones, a fantasy drama. The dataset has multiple tracks extracted from diverse sources, including dialogue (manual and automatic transcripts, multilingual subtitles), crowd-sourced textual descriptions (brief episode summaries, longer episode outlines) and various m...

Reality TV as Advertainment

A portrait of food and drink in commercial TV series.

This study examines the content and presentation of food and drink on fictional, commercial television. It provides the first comparison of food and drink consumption across different television program genres designated for different age groups. Data originated with a random sample of 50 taped episodes of children's shows, 50 episodes of "tween" programs (shows targeted for 9- to 14-year-olds)...