Series & Storytelling
How TV series are built and paid for: pilots, cliffhangers, showrunners, subscriptions and other streaming terms.
About this quiz
How are TV series built? This quiz explains the storytelling words behind every show you watch, from the first pilot to the season-ending cliffhanger, and the business words of streaming, from subscriptions and licensing to residuals and churn.
Good to know: lonelygirl15, which began on YouTube in June 2006, was one of the first hit web series. Many viewers believed its video diaries were real until it was revealed that September that the story was fiction played by actors.
How to play
- 10 questions, each with four answers
- +100 points for every right answer
- After each question you see the right answer and why
- Every round picks its questions at random, so playing again brings new ones
- No time limit: take as long as you like
Sample questions
- What is a cliffhanger?
- What is a spin-off?
- What is a pilot episode?
Each round picks 10 of this quiz’s 20 questions, so these may come up.
