- Question
Is television the new cinema?
Has prestige television eclipsed film as the home of ambitious storytelling? This entry sets out the two positions on the question — that television is the new cinema, and that it is not.
Position 1 of 2
Read this position →Yes, television is the new cinema
This position holds that television has taken over the role film once held, because the serial form offers the length, the latitude and the continuity of work that ambitious storytelling needs, and that is where such work is now made.
Position 2 of 2
Read this position →No, television is not the new cinema
This position holds that television has not replaced cinema, because the two differ in how they are watched, how they are financed and how they end, and a serial built to continue is not doing what a film obliged to resolve does.