are a narrative form well suited to television because the main characters appear every week, sets and locales remain the same, and technical crews stay with the program; feature new adventures each week, but a handful of characters emerge with whom viewers can regularly identify.

Episodic series.

Explanation:

As the exercise explains, episodic series are a narrative form well suited to television because the main characters appear every week, sets and locales remain the same, and technical crews stay with the program; feature new adventures each week, but a handful of characters emerge with whom viewers can regularly identify.  Example of this type of series are or were Games of Thrones, Breaking bad, Walking Dead, Star Trek, etc.; basically any type of series that, as it's mentioned, airs an episode weekly, in which most the setup and the characters are the same, allowing the spectator to identify with the characters and get hooked by the story.

question - in 1827, john walker, a druggist in a small english town, tipped a splint with sulphur, chlorate of potash, and sulphid of antimony, and rubbed it on sandpaper, and it burst into flame. the druggist had discovered the first friction-chemical match, the kind we use to-day. it is called friction-chemical because it is made by mixing certain chemicals together and rubbing them. although walker's match did not require the bottle of acid, nevertheless it was not a good one. it could be lighted only by hard rubbing, and it sputtered and threw fire in all directions. in a few years, however, phosphorus was substituted on the tip for antimony, and the change worked wonders. the match could now be lighted with very little rubbing, and it was no longer necessary to have sandpaper upon which to rub it. it would ignite when rubbed on any dry surface, and there was no longer any sputtering. this was the phosphorus match, the match with which we are so familiar. according the paragraph what was the benefit of the new phosphorus match? it burst into flame when rubbed on sandpaper. it was made by mixing chemicals. it could be ignited on any dry surface. it threw fire in all directions.

answer - matches required natural chemicals