Press, publicists & media
The credibility layer for what to watch
TV Intelligentsia publishes scored criticism, pre-release context, and developmental guidance for film and television. This page is for publicists, journalists, festival teams, and potential editorial partners.
For publicists and festivals
What TVI covers before release
We consider theatrical films, streaming films, television, stage work, and festival selections when TVI has a distinctive reason to cover them. The strongest fits are kids and family titles, medical or institutional stories, ambitious adaptations, prestige television, and Nashville or Southeastern premieres.
A school psychologist helped shape the TVI Kids framework
The TVI Kids methodology is shaped and reviewed by Cordelia Witty, EdS., NCSP, a Nationally Certified School Psychologist. Every kids title carries a separate SEL score from 0 to 50 built on the five CASEL social-emotional learning competencies, reported alongside the TVI Score rather than folded into it.
The practical difference for a family release: instead of only a verdict on whether a film is safe, the coverage identifies what the work models, what it asks of the viewer, and which scenes may open a useful co-viewing conversation. The framework is applied across 225 children's titles. Cordelia personally reviews and signs only the pieces and designations that identify her as their reviewer.
Credential references describe Cordelia's role in the methodology and her signed work. Her contribution is async and written. She is not available for interviews, calls, panels, or live appearances, and TVI does not offer her for them.
TVI is Nashville-operated and covers the Southeast
TV Intelligentsia, Inc. is a Delaware corporation operated from Nashville. Nashville and Southeastern premieres, festival selections, filmmakers, and cultural institutions are a standing coverage lane rather than an occasional regional courtesy, and a local screening is a route we can actually attend.
For a regional release, that means a publication with a documented methodology and a reason to care about the market the film is opening in.
Where TVI is unusually useful. We are not trying to be the outlet that covers everything. We are the outlet worth a screener when the title is one of these: children's and family titles that deserve a developmental read; medical, military, and institutional stories, which are read by a board-certified general surgeon and U.S. Navy officer in the Individual Ready Reserve; ambitious literary and mythological adaptations; prestige television with a real structural argument; and Nashville or Southeastern releases.
Access and commercial policy: a screener, ticket, credential, interview, or press asset does not guarantee coverage or favorable coverage. TVI may undertake paid research, advisory, assessment, or practice-review work for media organizations, but it does not accept payment to score, review, rank, designate, promote, or secure public coverage for a title. Clients cannot preview, suppress, delay, or alter public findings. TVI runs no display advertising and earns no affiliate commission on any score or streaming link. Client relationships trigger disclosure and recusal rules for titles the client produced. Screeners are kept secure. Embargoes and asset credits are recorded and followed exactly. The full rules are public in the editorial standards.
For a title-specific request, include the title, format, viewing window, embargo with timezone, screener or screening route, and asset terms. We reply based on editorial fit and available capacity, and we would rather decline a title than accept a deadline we cannot meet.
Data and research
PBS-associated kids shows reached TVI's Masterclass tier 3.8 times as often
The first quarterly Index analyzes all 44 current and legacy PBS-associated titles identified in TVI's 225-title kids catalog. The report separates current and legacy programs, keeps producer and distributor roles distinct, publishes the denominator, and provides downloadable CSV and JSON files.
Representative work
Scholarly reception
"By far the most penetrating, well-written and appreciative critique of the film I have yet seen."
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"She evaluates children's media through a developmental lens … not just 'is this safe?' but 'is this actually building cognitive, emotional, and social skills?'"
Read the full article →About TV Intelligentsia
TV Intelligentsia is the credibility layer for what to watch. Every catalog title receives a reviewed 0 to 200 TVI Score. The current formula weights Cognitive Stimulation (40%), Educational Value (35%), and Craft & Quality (25%); TVI publishes that breakdown only when it reproduces the displayed composite. Each title sits in one of five tiers: Masterclass, Stimulating, Competent, Passive, or Numbing.
Children's content receives an additional SEL Score from 0 to 50 built on the CASEL framework. The TVI Kids methodology is shaped and reviewed by school psychologist Cordelia Witty, EdS., NCSP. The two scores are reported separately because they measure different properties of the work.
TVI scores titles using a public methodology grounded in cognitive science, developmental psychology, and media-effects research, with credentialed review for children's content. TVI is not a critic or audience aggregator.
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Jordan Robinson
MD, MPH · Founding Editor, TVI
Built the TVI Score framework and serves as the accountable editor for adult criticism and score integrity. Board-certified general surgeon, plastic surgery fellow at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and U.S. Navy officer in the Individual Ready Reserve. Available to journalists for comment on medical, military, and institutional storytelling in film and television.
Cordelia Witty
EdS., NCSP · Founding Editor, TVI Kids
Nationally Certified School Psychologist. Shapes and reviews the TVI Kids methodology, including its use of the five CASEL social-emotional learning competencies, and personally signs the work attributed to her. Her contribution is async and methodology-anchored.
Downloadable assets
The methodology document, founder information, and brand image below may be used in editorial coverage of TV Intelligentsia with accurate attribution. Use does not imply endorsement. Citation: TV Intelligentsia, Rating Methodology v1.3.1 (2026).
Comment and background
Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH is the interview contact for TV Intelligentsia. He is available for interviews and written comment on the TVI Score methodology, cognitive stimulation in film and television, medical storytelling, adaptation, criticism, and building an independent credibility system.
TVI Kids can provide written background on children's media, the CASEL framework, social-emotional learning, attention, co-viewing, and the difference between age-appropriateness and developmental value. This is supplied as written material from the TVI Kids editorial side.
Cordelia Witty does not take interviews, calls, panels, podcasts, or live appearances of any kind, and TVI does not offer or arrange them. This is a standing editorial rule, not a scheduling constraint, and it will not change for a specific title or outlet. Her credential is attached to the methodology and to work she personally signs. Requests for a psychologist to speak about a title should go to Jordan, who will answer as TVI or decline. Credential references do not imply individualized professional services.
Press inquiries
For title access, interview requests, methodology questions, corrections, or editorial partnerships. Please include the title and deadline in the subject line.
press@tvintelligentsia.com