Every score TV Intelligentsia has published, in one file.
2,607 films and television series, 228 of them children's titles, each rated
0 to 200 on a public, versioned methodology. Scores cannot be bought, and
advertising, affiliate relationships, access, or commercial work cannot
determine a score or editorial conclusion.
Title and URL. The work's name and its permanent score page.
TVI Score, 0 to 200. A composite of three weighted dimensions:
Cognitive Stimulation (0.40), Educational Value (0.35), Craft & Quality (0.25),
each scored 0 to 50, multiplied by four.
Tier. One of five bands, defined below.
The three dimensions, on 2,607 of 2,607 titles. They are published
only where the current formula reproduces the published composite exactly.
Where it does not, the dimensions are withheld rather than shown alongside a
total they do not sum to.
SEL score, 0 to 50, on children's titles. A separate social-emotional
measure referencing the CASEL competencies. It does not feed the composite.
Kids flag. Whether the title sits in the children's vertical, which
carries credentialed review.
Tier distribution
Tier
Band
Titles
Share
Masterclass
160-200
682
26.2%
Stimulating
130-159
896
34.4%
Competent
100-129
869
33.3%
Passive
70-99
142
5.4%
Numbing
0-69
18
0.7%
Counts are computed from the feed at build time, so this table
and the file can never disagree.
What is not in it
No user ratings or aggregated opinion. Every score is one editorial
judgment against a published rubric, not an average of an audience.
No unscored titles. Under the current standard a work enters the dataset only after
a named rater has watched and scored it. Pre-release and provisional numbers are never
published. Rows labeled legacy were published under our earlier workflow,
in which viewing depth varied by title; see the corrections page.
A score we later withdraw stays in the dataset as a labeled history row
(provenance: retired, no current number, the withdrawn number
kept as withdrawn_score) rather than vanishing.
No personal or viewing data. Nothing here describes any individual.
Not a measure of intelligence. The score rates observable properties
of a work across the three published dimensions. It says nothing about any
viewer or viewing outcome.
Not a completeness claim. The catalog reflects what TVI has chosen
to score (and, under the current standard, to watch and score). It is not a census of television, and selection is
editorial.
Provenance and cadence
Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH, is accountable for catalog scores. Cordelia Witty,
EdS., NCSP, shapes and reviews the TVI Kids methodology and personally reviews
only work that identifies her as its reviewer. The methodology is public and
versioned; the dataset states the version it was produced under.
Titles are added weekly. Score revisions are recorded rather than made silently,
and the version here reflects the live rubric, currently v1.3.1.
Last updated 2026-09-08.
How to cite it
TV Intelligentsia. TVI Score Dataset (methodology v1.3.1). Retrieved 2026-09-08 from https://tvintelligentsia.com/datasets/tvi-scores/
Free to use with attribution to TV Intelligentsia. If you are
writing about the data and want the reasoning behind a specific number, every
title links to a page that shows its dimensional breakdown.