sceneggiato televisivo

[miralo]

Ciao - In an Italian instruction book, I ran across the following sentence. Alla TV guardo lo sceneggiato televisivo. I think it means: On TV I watch television drama. But I could not find sceneggiato in the WordReference dictionary or any other dictionary I have access to. Is my translation correct?

Grazie

 

[Lello4ever]

It is right. Sceneggiato is a tv adaptation of a story or novel, usually as a serial.

 

[miralo]

mille grazie

 

[spero]

programmi scenneggiati
uno spettacolo scenneggiato

Both of these terms are used in an article that talks exclusively about TV programming.

I have translated "scenneggiato" as miniseries, but would like confirmation.

Thanks!

 

[King Crimson]

programmi scenneggiati
uno spettacolo scenneggiato

Both of these terms are used in an article that talks exclusively about TV programming.

I have translated "scenneggiato" as miniseries, but would like confirmation.

Thanks!

Sansoni gives (TV) serial or series, while Garzanti gives (TV) serial, so I think your option could work.
Strange as it may seem, however, the word "sceneggiato" is fading out nowadays in Italy, to be replaced by (TV) fiction, which I believe to be one of those words mistakenly borrowed from English to mean something different from the original.

 

[PublicJohnDoe]

I would use "miniseries" only if it's very limited in scope (like Masters of Science Fiction for example, only 6 episodes), and "serial" or "series" if it's longer.

 

[Einstein]

Maybe it's only me, but I think series and serial mean different things. I'd say a serial if each episode is the continuation of a single story, while series could mean a different, complete story each week.

King Crimson is right about fiction, which really means fantasia, something invented. When it's about a historical fact, it's not logical to call it fiction.

 

[PublicJohnDoe]

Maybe it's only me, but I think series and serial mean different things. I'd say a serial if each episode is the continuation of a single story, while series could mean a different, complete story each week.

I've found this definition for "serial" as a noun on my Merriam-Webster:
"a work appearing (as in a magazine or on television) in parts at intervals"

I guess the two terms are more or like interchangeable... otherwise for example 24 should be called a "serial" (as the whole season is a single day, and each episode strictly continues what happened in the episode before) and CSI:Miami a "series" (as its continuity is much looser)...

 

[Teerex51]

I would suggest teleplay, a term from TV days of yore, but sceneggiato is no spring chicken, either...

 

[soleil-sol]

Ciao,
So, a tv-series in italian si called
tv fiction or just fiction?
Grazie

 

[Pietruzzo]

Ciao,
So, a tv-series in italian si called
tv fiction or just fiction?
Grazie

Serie TV. "Una fiction" is a a mini-series in Itanglish.