Have you ever wondered how some writers manage to keep readers hooked week after week with serialized stories that feel fresh, engaging, and carefully planned? Serialized storytelling is a unique art ...

After a few years away, Paramount’s Criminal Minds: Evolution — a revival of the long-running CBS procedural — brings us back to a Behavioral Analysis Unit that looks much different than where we left ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Reading used to compete mostly with television. Now it faces off with everything. Notifications interrupt chapters, playlists loop in ...

ABC's "Drive," which premieres soon, and "Traveler," slated for a May 30 launch, were being developed a year ago, when serialized dramas were hot. But with the genre having cooled, it remains to be ...

Utilizing a business model that combines elements of online gaming and digital reading platforms popular in Korea and China, Radish, a mobile reading app that offers short original serialized fiction, ...

Star Trek: Discovery will be breaking some new ground when it debuts near the end of September. We already know that the show will feature a new take on the Klingon race, more complex interpersonal ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. The publishing industry might not be as buzzy as film or TV, ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As it promised last month, Amazon has launched its serialized fiction Kindle Vella store that lets you unlock episodic, self-published stories ...

The current era of Peak TV owes much of its existence to the increasing sway of serialized storytelling. The availability of TV seasons on DVD and then streaming allowed TV creators to think in ...