In recent years, the academic community has shown increasing interest in television series, particularly - albeit not exclusively - in American TV series. There is a recent body of works that evaluate the presence of TV series in different national backgrounds (USA, Italy, France, UK, etc.), analyzing the production, circulation and reception of these programs. In this paper, we suggest the existence of a TV series culture, based on three conditions: the sophistication of the narrative formats, the technological context that allows for widespread digital circulation (on or offline), and the new modes of consumption, participation and textual criticism. As such, TV series stimulate interest that goes beyond fandom engagement with specific programs to encompass the development of a historical repertoire of these shows, a transnational telephilia, a TV series culture.
TV series culture; serial fiction; contemporary television