teleplay
Other forms: teleplays
The script for a TV show, including camera directions and dialog, is called a teleplay. Before the cameras can start rolling, writers need to try and come up with a great teleplay.
Most television shows and TV movies have a whole team of writers, and in many cases only some of them work on the teleplay. Writing credits are often split between the story (the basic themes and plot) and the teleplay, which includes the actual lines of dialog and camera set-ups. In the earliest days of TV, teleplay meant "radio play written for television."
Definitions of teleplay
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a script adapted or written for televisiontype of:book, playscript, scripta written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Roots: tele
This vocabulary list features words with the Greek root tele meaning "far."