This article investigates how Turkish audiences conceptualize authenticity in their engagement with foreign television (TV) productions in the case of Danish TV dramas. The theoretical notion of authenticity is juxtaposed with empirical material from fieldwork interactions, focus group interviews, and one-on-one interviews conducted with Turkish audiences between 2016 and 2018. By employing a semiotic analysis of fieldwork data, I argue that Turkish audiences attribute authenticity to the Danish TV drama series according to a socially created modality (truth value of a sign). This article draws on accounts about modality markers in TV drama series such as authentic portrayals of Danish TV characters and plausible-realistic depictions as a verisimilitudinous representation of everyday life. In the context of cross-cultural television viewing practices, the way Turkish audiences attribute meaning to Danish TV series in terms of authenticity, realism, and modality reveals a distinct differentiation between Danish TV dramas and other nationally and globally circulating media products.

本文以丹麦电视剧为例，探讨了土耳其观众如何在参与外国电视 (TV) 制作时概念化真实性。真实性的理论概念与来自 2016 年至 2018 年期间对土耳其观众进行的实地调查互动、焦点小组访谈和一对一访谈的经验材料并列。根据社会创造的方式观看丹麦电视剧（一个符号的真值）。本文借鉴了电视剧系列中的情态标记的描述，例如对丹麦电视人物的真实描绘和作为日常生活的真实再现的似是而非的现实描绘。在跨文化电视观看实践的背景下，土耳其观众在真实性、现实性和形式方面将意义赋予丹麦电视剧的方式揭示了丹麦电视剧与其他国内和全球流通的媒体产品之间的明显区别。