Qunhua's week9

Wilcox and Lavery (2002) identify 9 defining characteristics of ‘quality TV’ – can you apply any of these to other television series that you have viewed recently? Are there any other characteristics that you could add to their list?
The nine qualities are :
1. Quality pedigree
2. Desirable demographic
3. With large ensemble cast
4. Lasting memory & impression
5. Able to create new genre by mixing old ones
6. Literary, educational and writer-based
7. Self-conscious
8. Address the controversial
9. Aspires towards Reality
Can you apply any of the qualities from a recent TV series you have viewed recently?I viewed Simpsons’ show recently and was the opinions that it meets all the above qualities listed.
The Simpsons displayed a unique wit and sense of humor based on the comic art of Matt Groening, whose characters were among the first emotionally "real" ones that TV audiences had ever seen. With character development of the family and community as the focus of the show, social commentary and satire have been brought to the forefront in cartoon format. Still thriving today, The Simpsons has enjoyed incredible success as a educational program which I believed succeeded in its mission to teach a lesson, be funny, and sustain an audience while at the same time making a profit.
Centering on a nuclear family and the people of an "Anytown, USA", The Simpsons rarely fails to surprise as it satirizes the diverse social, political, sexual, and aesthetic norms defining American culture. The Simpson family shares certain qualities with other TV families of the past,
Here, I intend to show that The Simpsons is a "quality" program and meet all the characteristics stated by Wilcox and Lavery (2002) identify 9 defining characteristics of ‘quality TV’

Are there any other characteristics you could add to their list?
According to Thompson, the first criterion of a quality television program is that it is not regular TV. It must break the established rules of television and be like nothing that has come before it.
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References

Wilcox,R.&Lavery, D.(2002). Introduction, in R.Wilcox &D.Lavery (eds) Fighting the forces:what's  

        at stake in Buffy the vampire slayer. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield.