Abstract:

More than the 80-year history of broadcasting television is a way of the creative searches and scientific researches allowing to learn the nature and specifics of an infinite chain of shows on the home screen. During these researches scientists and experts periodically come back to comparison of TV to other types of audiovisual culture and mass information. In the offered article attempt to track long-term process of "telecasting staging", to catch theatrical presence at modern programs of telecasts is made.

Keywords: "Live broadcast", "photoplay", "television performance", "television movie", "television theater", "television cinema", "the serial television movie", "TV series".