# Appreciating the Art of Television –A Philosophical Perspective **Opening (not a real abstract):** Ted Nannicelli’s Appreciating the Art of Television is a signal intervention into the burgeoning field of television aesthetics. Nannicelli draws on contemporary analytic philosophy of art to advance compelling, often original, arguments about the authorship and ontology of television works, television’s distinctiveness as a medium, the role of authorial intentions in the audience’s interpretation of television works, and the evaluation of television as an art. His theorizing is characterized by impeccable clarity and rigor, and he mounts formidable challenges to arguments that are commonplace in TV studies: that fans determine the meanings of television works, for example, or that there is nothing objective about the evaluation of television as an art. These claims will have to be reckoned with by anyone seeking **Authors:** [[Ted Nannicelli]]