Have you ever wondered how some writers manage to keep readers hooked week after week with serialized stories that feel fresh, engaging, and carefully planned? Serialized storytelling is a unique art ...

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Utilizing a business model that combines elements of online gaming and digital reading platforms popular in Korea and China, Radish, a mobile reading app that offers short original serialized fiction, ...

Webtoon, the company behind the storytelling platform Wattpad and its namesake online comics portal, launched a new app on Thursday offering serialized fiction that readers can purchase and read one ...

Now that the latest season of Game of Thrones has ended, fans may be feeling a little untethered — and some publishers would like to fill that gap with serialized books. As TV dramas get better and ...

Procedural shows are usually formulaic. Each episode has a case, it gets solved, and then viewers move on. Over the years, a surprising number of these TV shows quietly shifted gears. These simple ...

The upfronts are over. Broadcast networks and cable stations have paraded out their best new shows for advertisers who shelled out an estimated $25 billion (including for digital) to push their ...

Upon its debut, Star Trek: Deep Space Ninewas a controversial series for its many departures from what fans expected in the universe Gene Roddenberry created. The show ended up being very prescient, ...

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