Adaptation medium

A television program (U.S.), television programme (UK), or television show (U.S) is a segment of broadcast programming in television broadcasting. It may be a one-off broadcast or, more usually, part of a periodically recurring television series. A television series that is intended to be broadcast a finite number of episode is usually called a miniseries or serial (although the latter term also has other meanings). North Americans call a short run lasting less than a year a season; People of...

Poetry (from the Greek "", , a "making" or "creating") is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its ostensible meaning. Poetry may be written independently, as discrete poems, or may occur in conjunction with other arts, as in poetic drama, hymn or lyrics. Poetry, and discussions of it, have a long history. Early attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric, drama,...

A play, or stageplay, is a form of literature written by a playwright, almost always consisting of dialogue between fictional character, intended for theatrical performance rather than reading. The term is often used in contrast to "musical," which refers to a play with a lot of music and singing. Many people (especially scholars) read plays for pleasure, or study them in an academic manner. There are rare dramatists, notably George Bernard Shaw, who have had little preference whether their...

A comic book -- or comic for short -- is a magazine or book containing sequential art. Although the term implies otherwise, the subject matter in comic books is not necessarily humorous; in fact, it is often serious and action-oriented. Comic books are so called because some of the earliest comic books were simply collections of comic strips (most of which were humorous) that had originally been printed in newspapers. The commercial success of these collections led to work being created...

A video game is a game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device. However, with the popular use of the term "video game", it now implies any type of display device. The electronic systems used to play video games are known as platforms; examples of these are personal computer and video game console. These platforms are broad in range, from large computer to small...

Rock operas, concept album, song cycle and oratorio all differ from a conventional rock album, which usually includes songs that are unrelated to each other in terms of storyline. The rock opera style sometimes overlaps with concept album, song cycle and oratorio. More recent developments include metal opera and rap opera (sometimes also called hip-hopera). The category a particular work falls into is, to some extent, defined by the intent and self-definition of the work by its creator, as long...

A miniseries (sometimes mini-series), in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a pre-planned limited number of episodes. Although no strict rule exists which differentiate a miniseries from a "regular" series or serial there are some suggestions. Leslie Halliwell and Philip Purser argue that miniseries tend to "appear in four to six episodes of various lengths" whilst Stuart Cunningham defines them as, "a limited run program of more than two and less than the...