The mirror
Answer from the work on screen, not the intention document.
Choose “Yes” only when a viewer can point to the evidence. “Not yet” means the intention is known but not consistently legible. “Unclear” means the team may not share the same answer.
Intention
What the team believes the work is for.
The target audience and developmental range are written in one sentence the whole team uses.
The team can name one thing the audience should notice, practice, feel, or question after the work.
The team can state what the title does not attempt, without turning that limit into a marketing weakness.
On-screen modeling
Whether the claimed value lives in behavior.
Child characters make consequential choices instead of waiting for an adult to explain every conclusion.
The skill or value named in the brief appears in observable behavior and consequence, not only in dialogue.
A mistake, conflict, or misunderstanding gets enough time for recognition and repair rather than being instantly erased.
Story integration
Whether learning and feeling belong to the same work.
The stated lesson reinforces the story's emotional logic instead of interrupting or contradicting it.
Learning happens through action, play, problem-solving, or relationship rather than arriving as an appended explanation.
The cut leaves room for attention, frustration, uncertainty, or quiet when the audience needs time to process.
Family usefulness
What can travel beyond the episode.
The work creates at least one genuine family question that does not have a single approved answer.
A family can reuse one phrase, practice, game, or point of attention after the screen is off.
Marketing can describe the title's intended value without promising a developmental outcome for an individual child.
This check is complete only when all twelve answers come from the current script, animatic, episode, or cut. It is not a TVI review and does not enter the scored catalog.
Your production pattern
The counts are a prompt for revision, not a grade.
The next problem
When the team is too close to the work, use an outside mirror.
The private TVI Development Lab is a fixed-scope engagement for one title: one structured expert mirror, one prioritized revision memo, and one revision pass. Payment never buys a public score, favorable coverage, or a favorable result.