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== Reading the interface ==

=== Your table ===
* '''Market''' (top): Shows, Stars, Ads and Network cards you can take, with deck counts. With Telly Time, the pass board sits above it.
* '''Your area''': green room (Stars, Ads, Network cards and Moguls you own) on the left, your player board in the middle, your lineup on the right.
* '''Opponents''': use the tabs to view another player's area. Everything in a lineup and in reruns is public.
* '''Scoreboard''': round scores, then endgame scores (Genres, Reruns, Network/Moguls/Executives, Cash). Use the arrow to switch pages.

=== Tooltips ===
* Hover over any card (or long-press it on mobile) to read everything printed on it in words.
* Hover or long-press the '''Actions''' and '''Round End''' areas of your player board for the printed reference.
* With Executives, hover or long-press your board for your Executive's abilities and drawbacks.
* With Telly Time, hover or long-press your genre grid for how it works.
* On mobile, tap anywhere else to close a tooltip.

=== Forecast ===
* Above your lineup: '''Forecast''' shows the viewers and upkeep you would get if the round ended now (before Quiz purchases and round-end choices).
* Beside each Show: a badge with that Show's viewers and upkeep this round.
* On your player board: a cube on the '''Round Scoring Track''' marks the same forecast total (past 50 it laps around and shows +50).

=== Choices and confirmations ===
* When you must choose (a genre bonus, a Network card's effect, a Mogul, a grid line...), the choice appears in a strip at the top of the table. The rest of the table stays visible.
* Cards and Shows you can't use for the current action are dimmed; valid targets stay bright.
* Most actions ask you to confirm in the status bar, with a short countdown. Change this in the game preferences under '''Action confirmation delay''' (0, 3, 5 or 10 seconds, or Off).
* At round end, the game may wait for a player to make a round-end choice (for example Surpriser) before scoring continues.

== How to read the cards ==

=== Shows ===
# '''Genre''': producing the Show advances you on this genre track.
# '''Expenses''': paid every round at upkeep.
# '''Preferred timeslot''': sun = daytime, sunset = primetime, moon = late night.
# '''Viewers by season''': scored each round. The marker moves down one row per round, and the Show is canceled when it runs off the bottom.
# '''The X''': outside its preferred timeslot, the Show starts on this row instead.
# '''Production cost'''.
# '''Attachment slots''': coloured = required, grey = optional. A half Star/half Ad slot takes either.
# '''Rerun viewers''': scored at game end once the Show has been canceled.

=== Stars ===
# '''Signing cost'''.
# '''Expenses''': paid every round at upkeep (if shown).
# '''Viewers by season''': when attached upright.
# '''Rotated values''' (upside down): used when the Star is attached rotated.
# '''Condition''': if met, the Star stays upright; otherwise it is rotated. Some Stars have an effect on a black strip instead.

=== Ads ===
# '''Signing bonus''': gained when you sign the Ad.
# '''Income''': gained every round at upkeep.
# '''Rotated income''': when the Ad is attached rotated.
# '''Condition''': if met, the Ad stays upright; otherwise it is rotated. Promos instead let you pay to keep them upright.

=== Network cards ===
# '''Timing''': ! Immediate (resolves when taken), 1x Use once, ∞ Ongoing, eye = Game end.
# '''The effect''', in icons.
# '''The effect''', in words.

== Expansion notes ==

=== Telly Time: the genre grid ===
* Producing a Show covers its genre's space on your grid, once per genre. There is no genre track.
* Completing a row, column or diagonal gives the bonus printed at its end: draw cards and keep one, as with a genre bonus.
* With Moguls, your 2nd completed line draws Moguls instead of its printed bonus.
* When you pass: $1M for each empty space. At round end: 1 viewer for each covered space.
* The Show space on the grid is your Weekend timeslot.

=== Writeoff (Network card) ===
* Writeoff cancels your lowest-scoring Show and pays $1M per viewer it would have scored this round, counting its attached Stars and effects.
* If one Show is lowest, you just confirm. If several are tied, choose which one to cancel.

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