RELAÇÃO ENTRE O CINEMA E
AS SÉRIES TELEVISIVAS
With the advent of cable television and the changes that have occurred regarding the dissemination of digital and mobile technologies, television has become an effective vehicle for intercultural exchange. Within this framework, fictional narrative television, through its stories, settings and characters plays a key role. Whereas nowadays TV series have been gaining the status of, as it were, works of art, becoming identified as the "future of cinema", bringing to its universe directors and actors of relevant films. This paper presents a parallel between cinema and television fictional production - specifically television series - addressing aspects of thematic content, narrative structure, production and reception.