In turn, with a net, players seen on it (4,4)
I believe the answer is:
game show
'players seen on it' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'in turn with a net' is the wordplay.
'in turn' becomes 'gow' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'with' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'net' becomes 'mesh' ('mesh' can be a synonym of 'net').
'a'+'mesh'='amesh'
'gow' placed around 'amesh' is 'GAME SHOW'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for game show that I've seen before include "TV prize-winning programme" , "Competitive TV programme" , "Genre of TV programme" , "Common TV format" .)