期刊名称：Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives
印刷版ISSN：2421-454X
出版年度：2019
卷号：5
期号：1
页码：9-21
DOI：10.6092/issn.2421-454X/9079
出版社：Dipartimento delle Arti - Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
摘要：Textual and content data were extracted from the pilot episode scripts of 183 new, dramatic television series and used to predict the 18-49 demo ratings for the first five episodes of each series’ first season. As expected, the originality of a series’ premise, the track record of success of the its creator(s), and the cognitive complexity of its pilot episode script each explain a statistically significant proportion of the variance in the Nielsen ratings over the first five episodes.
