Hot TV: How to Make TV Narration Attractive

Experimenting with TV narration is one of the characteristic features of current television programmes. There has been a significant shift from a discreet storytelling towards the mode where the actual narration becomes the main amusement. The HOT TV section traces both the conventional features of TV narration and the new narrative elements that draw people’s attention. We will discuss the difference between a serial and a series, look at the influence of genres on quality TV, shed light on the specifics of the postmodern TV narration and demonstrate some experiments with the narrator.