What is entertainment for one person may be torture or work for another. Familiar forms of entertainment have demonstrated the capacity to cross media, and this flexibility has assured the continuity and longevity of many themes and images. The word entertainment is derived from the Medieval Latin intertenere, which has the prefix inter meaning “inside,” and the suffix ten, from the Indo-European root for stretching or extending.
According to Bates and Ferri (2010), entertainment is a form of activity understood objectively that communicates between text and audience from an external stimulus, off ers pleasure, requires an audience to exist, and occurs in a passive form.