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Robin Nelson's State of play up-dates and develops the arguments of his influential TV Drama In Transition (1997). It is equally distinctive in setting analusis of the aesethetics and compositional principles of texts within a broad conceptual framework (technologies, institutions, economics, cultural trends). Tracing ""the great value shift from conduit to content"" (Todreas, 1999), Nelson is relatively optimistic about the future quality of TV Drama in a global market-place. But, characteristically taking up questions of worth where others have avoided them, Nelson recognizes that certain ty

TV drama. --- aesthetics of texts. --- cultural trends. --- economics. --- global market-place. --- institutions. --- quality. --- television. --- value shift. --- viewer preference.