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Edutainment means shows that blend an entertaining story with educational material. For example, The Magic School Bus tells stories while also teaching about science.

There are educational shows for adults, they're usually called documentaries. But any that blend educational material with fiction? I guess an argument can be made that biographical films fall into this category but they usually take creative liberties and aren't fully historically accurate. An argument can also be made for medical dramas and legal dramas, but I'm not sure how accurate the medical and legal information in them is. Of course, The Magic School Bus also takes creative liberties and has inaccurate science, but there's always a segment at the end explaining where they took creative liberties.

How I Met Your Mother kind of had the vibe of a kids show that teaches moral lessons, but for adults. Edit for clarity: the reason I bring this up is I consider "moral of the week" a genre closely related to edutainment but not quite the same thing

Edit: now that I'm thinking about it, I guess Jeopardy and other trivia based game shows could qualify as edutainment. They're not fictional, but they do blend entertainment and education

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[-] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago

If you haven't yet watched Cosmos with Carl Sagan as the host, you should consider watching it. It's borderline not what you asked for because it doesn't really have fiction, however Carl was so incredibly good at storytelling and making incredibly complex Science understandable through his awesome narrative abilities, I'd recommend it if you hadn't already seen it.

Some other mentions -

Chernobyl - HBO drama of the disaster, but the last episode goes into extreme detail of the actual event and why things happened the way they did. Fascinating

MythBusters - I'm sure you have likely seen this but it's entertaining and you learn a lot. Lots of jokes and personality.

Forged in Fire - show where blacksmith/bladesmith contestants compete to make forged blades using varied metals, and then the judges put those finished blades through grueling tests, to ultimately crown a single smith as the winner each episode. I'm not anywhere close to this profession, yet it taught me a TON about blacksmithing and bladesmithing, and if I had an acreage with a big shop, I'd definitely be doing it as a hobby. So cool to see the things they create.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Those sound interesting. I have seen Mythbusters. That was a fun show

[-] kinship@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 14 hours ago

Adam Savage has a cool one season show called "Savage Builds" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10233836/)

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago
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