Television Without Pity (often abbreviated TWoP) is a website that provides detailed recaps of select television dramas, situation comedies and reality TV shows, originally by mocking them. In 2007 the site was purchased by the Bravo unit of NBC Universal. The site began by recapping the television show Dawson's Creek and was originally called Dawson's Wrap; later it broadened its scope and changed names to Mighty Big TV before settling on the current moniker. The site is notable for its wide usage of the word "snark" to describe its typical style of sarcastic review. Their official motto is "Spare the snark, spoil the networks," a takeoff on "spare the rod, spoil the child."
The site's mascot is Tubeelzebub (a portmanteau of tube and Beelzebub – "Tubey" for short), a devilish television set with horns and a pointed tail.
The recaps and forums have their own jargon, detailed in the site's help section. Recappers also commonly coin nicknames for show characters, based on inside jokes or an actor's previous work. Some of these terms arise from episode-specific forum discussions among non-staff television viewers and make their way into common usage (and sometimes into the recaps as well).
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Famous quotes containing the words television and/or pity:
“There was a girl who was running the traffic desk, and there was a woman who was on the overnight for radio as a producer, and my desk assistant was a woman. So when the world came to an end, we took over.”
—Marya McLaughlin, U.S. television newswoman. As quoted in Women in Television News, ch. 3, by Judith S. Gelfman (1976)
“Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,
That sees into the bottom of my grief?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)