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Glossary entry

Italian term or phrase:

fiction

English translation:

television serial

Added to glossary by dsmith (X)
May 21, 2001 04:09
23 yrs ago
Italian term

fiction (televisione)

Italian to English Art/Literary
Hi folks
Does anyone know how this type of TV genre would "translate" into English?
TIA
Derek
Proposed translations (English)
0 (drama) serial
0 No, I don't think serial would do
0 TV drama productions

Proposed translations

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(drama) serial

It's a bit of a catch-all term. Italian television companies tend to use it to refer to in-house drama productions that keep the same characters over a number of episodes.
You would probably want to mention the genre in English as well, so you might call "La Squadra" a police serial, for example.

HTH

Giles
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks for your superfast and helpful answer Derek"
1 hr

No, I don't think serial would do

"Fiction" might well be composed of just one episode; a serial is always composed of many
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1 hr

TV drama productions

Hi Francesco,
Thanks for the "codicillo". Seems to me that they're usually composed of several episodes, but maybe not always. Anyway, I eventually decided to use the above phrase. If I get any feedback from the customer I'll let you know
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