Scraps of 70 Years of Serialized Fiction Television in the Public Television

A History Made of Stories

Abstract

Public Television's fiction is a fundamental part of its 70 years of history. Its production, the place it occupies in the television program schedule, the resources that are used to create audio-visual content and the television offer, are crucial data. Thus, the following article narrates the 70 years of public television, “with its cameras on the shoulder ready to record”, through its fictions: a history made of stories. However, reconstructing this history is not an easy task: if we take up the post left four years ago (Nicolosi, 2017), to current days, we can estimate around 900 fictions that have passed through the public television screen. Using a selection of representative -and significant- fiction broadcast by public television, we´ll make a cut out in its developed history in order to explain how that fictions were able to shape the sensibility of an era or, what is known as a symptom of changes in the structure of feelings, according to Williams (2000). In this manner, using the theoretical perspective of cultural studies as a basis of this article, it is offered to the reader a critical analysis of the public television fiction, comprehending them as a product of cultural, political, and technological aspects.