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| author | Cornfeld, Andrew Miller, Ashley Mora-Figueroa, Mercedes Samuels, Kurt Palomba, Anthony |
| author_facet | Cornfeld, Andrew Miller, Ashley Mora-Figueroa, Mercedes Samuels, Kurt Palomba, Anthony |
| contents | Television networks face high financial risk when making programming decisions, often relying on limited historical data to forecast episodic viewership. This study introduces a machine learning framework that integrates natural language processing (NLP) features from over 25000 television episodes with traditional viewership data to enhance predictive accuracy. By extracting emotional tone, cognitive complexity, and narrative structure from episode dialogue, we evaluate forecasting performance using SARIMAX, rolling XGBoost, and feature selection models. While prior viewership remains a strong baseline predictor, NLP features contribute meaningful improvements for some series. We also introduce a similarity scoring method based on Euclidean distance between aggregate dialogue vectors to compare shows by content. Tested across diverse genres, including Better Call Saul and Abbott Elementary, our framework reveals genre-specific performance and offers interpretable metrics for writers, executives, and marketers seeking data-driven insight into audience behavior. |
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| spellingShingle | Optimizing Storytelling, Improving Audience Retention, and Reducing Waste in the Entertainment Industry Cornfeld, Andrew Miller, Ashley Mora-Figueroa, Mercedes Samuels, Kurt Palomba, Anthony Computers and Society Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language Machine Learning Television networks face high financial risk when making programming decisions, often relying on limited historical data to forecast episodic viewership. This study introduces a machine learning framework that integrates natural language processing (NLP) features from over 25000 television episodes with traditional viewership data to enhance predictive accuracy. By extracting emotional tone, cognitive complexity, and narrative structure from episode dialogue, we evaluate forecasting performance using SARIMAX, rolling XGBoost, and feature selection models. While prior viewership remains a strong baseline predictor, NLP features contribute meaningful improvements for some series. We also introduce a similarity scoring method based on Euclidean distance between aggregate dialogue vectors to compare shows by content. Tested across diverse genres, including Better Call Saul and Abbott Elementary, our framework reveals genre-specific performance and offers interpretable metrics for writers, executives, and marketers seeking data-driven insight into audience behavior. |
| title | Optimizing Storytelling, Improving Audience Retention, and Reducing Waste in the Entertainment Industry |
| topic | Computers and Society Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00076 |