THE UNIFORMITY OF DOMESTIC TV SERIES AGAINST THE ILLUSION OF THE DIVERSITY THAT IS CREATED BY “POPULAR/UNPOPULAR” DEFINITION

Television channels have been enjoying the advantages of the serials to ensure their advertising revenue and its continuity since the beginning of commercial publishing. Especially in recent years, all major television channels that want to get a share from the advertising revenue are broadcasting the domestic tv series on the prime time zone. Along with the increase in the number of domestic tv series, identification of the tv series which is popular and unpopular has begun. With this definiton, an illusion that both the demand determines the supply and the content of tv series are different has been created in the minds. The given content are both a culture industry and standardised. Despite the illusion of difference that created with the definition of popular and unpopular tv series, the aim of this study is to reveal the uniformity of them. For this purpose the popular and unpopular tv series that have been broadcasted in the 2016-2017 period were analyzed with the qualitative content analyze in terms of the the characters, the lessons given to the audience, clichés and musical use, and their sameness was revealed