Teleplay

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Teleplay is a play for television, a comedy or drama written/adapted for television. The term surfaced in 1950s with wide usage to distinguish television plays from theatre plays or stage plays, and screenplays written for films. All three have different formats, conventions and constraints.

There are different types of television plays and also having different time slots. Some television plays are episodic also known as television serials mean the continuation of one story or theme till the end episode. The other is TV series which means that there is always different story or theme in every episode. Some are long plays which may be two or three hours long, they also have different story on every week.

Now a days, the era of computer and information age, the scope of television drama or plays are very wide and so much changed. There is extensive use of computer graphics and special visual effects.

Now there are soap operas, the another format of television play, the soap opera may be run for the several years or 1000+ episodes or may be more. The other formats are telefilms, mini-series, and often use different themes such as science fiction, mythological, medical drama, crime drama, romance, horror/thriller and suspense.

In current era the television plays evolved as a permanent industry, the different teleplays are produced by different production houses which would be operated or managed by CEO, and there are permanent employs like writers, directors, creative directors, script head, script supervisor, script coordinator and cinematographers or cameramen.