Category:Television

""Television tastes funny.""

- Cheese, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

''All about the medium of television, its sub-categories, and TV-specific tropes that cross those divisions. See also Formats.''

Television is traditionally viewed on a television set, though these days people can catch up on their favorite programs via computer and mobile devices. Commercially available since the 1920's, but only really catching on in the 1950's, home televisions were largely big, heavy, and limited to a 4:3 aspect ratio until about the turn of the millennium.

Supertrope to Live-Action TV. Shared supertrope (shared with Film) to Animation.

Not to be confused with the Punk / New Wave band of the same name.