BBC and television genres in jeopardy / Jeremy Tunstall.
By: Tunstall, Jeremy [author.]
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Oxford, UK : Bern, Switzerland : Peter Lang AG, International Academic Publishers, ©2015Description: viii, 400 pages ; 23 cm.Content type: text ISBN: 9783034318464 (pbk.); 3034318464 (pbk.).Subject(s): British Broadcasting Corporation | British Broadcasting Corporation | Television -- Great Britain | Television program genres -- Great Britain | Television broadcasting policy -- Great Britain | Television | Television broadcasting policy | Television program genres | Great BritainDDC classification: 384.54065941/T83 Other classification: CAS | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-387) and index.
Introduction -- chapter 1. The BBC and Public Service Genres in Jeopardy -- chapter 2. UK Commercial Television Trembles -- chapter 3. Executive Producers, Independent Production and Celebrity -- chapter 4. Drama and Soap: Most Popular Genres -- chapter 5. BBC News Dominance -- chapter 6. First Casualty: Current Affairs -- chapter 7. Traditional Public Service BBC Genres in Decline: Education, Natural History, Science, Arts, Children's and Religion -- chapter 8. Flourishing Public Service Genres: Documentary, History, Travel -- chapter 9. Comedy, Big Entertainment and Talk -- chapter 10. Factual Entertainment Formats Prosper: Cooking, Homes, Quiz/Game, Reality -- chapter 11. TV Sports: Live, Formatted, Monetised -- chapter 12. TV Policy in Fragments, Genres in Jeopardy.
This book considers British television from the point of view of executive producers, focusing on twenty-one different genres. On the basis of 150 interviews with executive producers, channel controllers and genre commissioners, the author offers new insights into the state of British television through the eyes of those working on the inside.
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