ABSTRACT
Stories are cognitively linear so they can describe a path of events with a goal, a conflict, and the promise of resolution. The term storytelling gives equal importance to story and telling, because the story only comes alive in its telling. The story is all the raw material having to do with the characters, their actions, the conflict, and the situations which fill in a full world, both seen and unseen by the audience. Producers confront the changing nature of the audience, the large palette of possibilities and an industry that sees continually evolving technology. In many ways, the audience's most basic want is the simple desire for their story to remain coherent. As a result, the various entry points stayed connected to the core narrative and were integrated into the larger experience, ensuring that the other entry points would bring the audience back to the center of the universe, in this case, the television series.
