14: Primetime Adventures
Primetime Adventures is actually 15, but 14 is the box set version of Mouse Guard.
Primetime Adventures is the RPG of creating TV series, going full narrative construction rather than many licenced RPGs being a mix of narrative with simulation of the world, even beyond genre deconstructions like They Came From... The players all have a hand in scene framing, and its defining mechanic is that the PCs in the ensemble cast have spotlight episodes built in as their Screen Presence varies over a season.
My first thought is to look at holiday episodes for show-based RPGs (I’ve done that aplenty) and my second is to remind you all of the time I swiped the Eerie Indiana finale for The Watch House and had some of the PCs discover they were in a TV show.
But to go a different way, have the PCs interacting with normal media in their setting. Famous enough PCs could get Print The Legend happening to them, but at lower levels of notoriety can they get on the local news, or avoid it as the case may be?
What shows do they watch, which writers do they follow and so on? Is there a local TV station, a movie studio, radio, theatre, publisher, particularly good tribal storyteller?
This depends how close to the real world we are, naturally - the animated Batman grew up on The Gray Ghost instead of the Shadow or, well, Batman. (IIRC one of the Silver Age heroes read the equivalent Golden Ages comics in-character?)
The Christmas Special
The PCs somehow end up involved with a festive broadcast. Superheroes making an appearance, more low-key characters helping out with a fundraiser. They get to look around a studio and see some of the production process. But is somebody going to cause trouble...?
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