How we handle criticism, access, and correction

What we publish

TV Intelligentsia is the credibility layer for what to watch. Our criticism appears in four distinct forms. Each form should tell the reader what evidence is available and what kind of judgment is being made.

Watching and scoring

Every public score must be based on a human review of the title and reconciled to the weighted formula in the published methodology. AI may not watch, score, or simulate the experience of watching a title.

The catalog holds 2,365 films and series. A person watched every one of them before it was scored. TVI has never published a score for a title it had not seen, and it does not score a title from a trailer, a synopsis, a press kit, or another outlet's review.

TVI scores titles using a public methodology grounded in cognitive science, developmental psychology, and media-effects research, with credentialed review for children's content. The rubric is versioned and published in full at the methodology page, currently v1.3. Scores run 0 to 200 across three weighted dimensions: Cognitive Stimulation at 40 percent, Educational Value at 35 percent, and Craft & Quality at 25 percent.

• Scored criticism identifies the methodology version used.
• Quotes, plot sequence, character actions, names, dates, and credits are checked against the work or an authoritative source.
• A score can change when new seasons, new evidence, or a documented scoring error materially change the basis for judgment.
• Any material revision preserves the prior score, the new score, the date, and the reason.

Editorial independence and conflicts

TVI accepts no studio payment, paid placement, or score influence. Advertising, sponsorship, access, affiliate relationships, and product sales may not determine a score or the conclusion of a review.

TVI is independently owned by TV Intelligentsia, Inc., a Delaware corporation operated from Nashville. No studio, distributor, streamer, network, ticketing company, or media conglomerate holds any ownership stake in TVI or any influence over its scores. TVI is not owned by a company that sells tickets to the films it rates.

Revenue is reader-paid. It comes from founding memberships bought directly by readers. TVI runs no display advertising, takes no sponsored placements, and earns no affiliate commission on any score, ranking, list, or streaming link. Nothing on the site is paid for by the companies whose work is scored.

Writers disclose a material personal, financial, employment, or close-family connection to a title, creator, distributor, or subject. When a conflict cannot be managed transparently, the writer does not cover the work.

Publicists may correct factual information. They do not approve criticism, scores, headlines, or conclusions before publication.

Screeners, screenings, and embargoes

TVI may accept press screenings, digital screeners, festival credentials, interviews, and standard press materials. Receiving access does not guarantee that TVI will publish, publish positively, or publish on a publicist's preferred angle.

• Every embargo is recorded with an exact date, time, and timezone.
• Screeners are personal and are not shared, recorded, or used to create unauthorized frame grabs.
• Social, review, interview, and image embargoes are treated as separate restrictions when supplied separately.
• Routine screener access is disclosed when it is material to reader trust or required by the provider.
• An embargo or screener-security failure pauses the access program until the failure has been investigated and prevented from recurring.

Images and press assets

Film stills, key art, posters, unit photography, clips, and production notes are used only under the terms supplied by the owner, distributor, press portal, or publicist. An asset record tracks ownership, required credit, permitted channels, alteration rules, embargoes, and expiration.

Permission for editorial website use does not automatically include social media, newsletters, paid promotion, merchandise, or alteration. TVI does not treat a metadata API or an image URL as a blanket grant of copyright permission.

Stills and key art used in TVI criticism appear in an editorial and commentary context and are credited in a consistent form:

A rights holder who believes an image on this site is used outside its permitted terms should write to jordan@tvintelligentsia.com with the page URL and the asset. We will remove or correct the use while we review the claim rather than after.

TVI brand assets and founder headshots offered on the press page may be used for editorial coverage of TV Intelligentsia, with accurate attribution and without implying endorsement.

AI assistance

AI tools may help organize research, compare structured data, transcribe interviews, identify unanswered questions, flag a new score as anomalous against the existing catalog, and test copy against TVI's standards. They may not invent a viewing experience, create scene evidence that the writer did not observe, fabricate a quote or source, or assign a public score.

Every scoring record carries the named human rater of record, whether AI assisted, what kind of assistance it was, and the fact that final score authority is human. AI-assisted passes are declared and kept separate from human reliability statistics, because mixing them silently would corrupt the agreement measurements TVI collects on its own rubric.

The named author remains accountable for every published claim. Material AI-generated visual illustration is labeled when a reader could reasonably mistake it for documentary or production imagery.

Who reviews, and credentials

TVI has two reviewers of record. We state the number plainly because a publicist evaluating this publication should know exactly how large it is and who is accountable for a score.

The adult catalog is scored by one named reviewer, not by a panel or a board of contributors, and TVI does not describe it as anything larger than it is. Two people are accountable for what this publication says, and their names sit on the work.

Credentials explain the expertise brought to the methodology or a piece. They do not turn editorial content into individualized professional services. TVI does not assess, diagnose, or advise about an individual child, and Jordan Robinson's medical training informs criticism and methodology work rather than individualized medical care.

Corrections and updates

TVI corrects factual errors, quote errors, credits, broken source attribution, score calculations, and substantive misapplications of the published rubric. A change in opinion is not presented as a factual correction.

Material corrections are noted on the affected page and added to the public corrections log. Minor spelling, punctuation, formatting, and link repairs may be corrected without a note when they do not change meaning.

The clearest evidence of how this works is a score revision rather than a correction. TVI scored Avatar: The Last Airbender at 156 and published it as Stimulating. On re-examination the series scored 181, a Masterclass, and TVI published the new number, kept the old one on the record, and said why the rubric had moved. That is the largest score revision in the catalog, and it is in the public log. A publication that will move a score 25 points in daylight is the same publication that will tell you when it got a credit wrong.