Tuesday 23 February 2016

4b)discuss in detail how one programme offers audience pleasures. Give examples from the programme. [15 marks]
 bad education shows a lot of comedy in their show and it also shows familiarity when Mr wickers is immature,foolish and allows the students to bully him. Transgression pleasures are used when they talk about poo and sexualisation of this in the school. it gives audience pleasure because the language and material used can be racist so they can laugh about the audlt humour and the racist jokes.
Narrative pleasures refer to the audience enjoying how the storyline is constructed. In situation comedy, the plot starts and ends in exactly the same place (narrative resolution). What happens in between is usually a snowballing narrative of one problem added onto another problem, This is usually caused by the stupid decisions of the character and the audience laugh as they make each poor choice.
Character identification is how the audience knows the characters well and can predict how they will behave. Audiences feel they can relate the the characters and they become well loved because of these predictable character traits. How does Mr Wickers appeal to the target audience? He is seen as the worse teacher ever but he is surrounded by some of the weirdest teachers who by comparison make him seem far better than any alternative. His intentions are good and the audience identify with him, even though he is immature and makes such cringe-worthy decisions.
Pleasure of recognition means audiences enjoy the anticipation of what a character will say next. Certain characters have catchphrases or typical behaviours that the audience expect to see. This makes them predictable and adds to them being well-loved by audiences who feel like they know the character well. The action happens in the same setting, which the audience are familiar with.
Pleasures of difference-within-repetition means that the audience can easily recognise this as a situation comedy but the show plays with the repetition of the same narrative structure. Each episode sees the characters facing alternative plots and comedy through the script but the same sort of events happen.

Tuesday 9 February 2016


Bad education is a sitcom which is comedy and is set in the same location and with the same characters.Having the same characters allows the audience to get to know the characters also the audience are included in the story line as they get to see each episode unfold.
Bad Education offers us audience gratification because of the various stereotypes they use in the programme.
One stereotype is Chinese immigrant. One character trait is jing she is a girl that wants to learn and tells mr whickers how to teach. 

Tuesday 2 February 2016

4. (a) Compare how and why two programmes were scheduled on different channels.



Channel 4: Contains advert and is more entertainment based,they gain their money by allowing other programmes to broadcast on their channel at certain times

BBC: Has no adverts and gains money from TV licence which every person who wishes to watch TV in England has to pay for.BBC is more informative compared to channel 4 as they broadcast documentation  and world news.

Friday Night Dinner
British television situation comedy written by Robert Popper and starring Tamsin Grieg, Paul Ritter, Simon Bird,Tom Rosenthal and Mark Heap
Big Talk Productions and Popper Pictures
Target Audience:16+ because it uses adult humor and infrequent use of bad language .
The reason it shows late evening is due to the fact it is based for adults and children go to bed,the channel 4 shows it is not as realistic and serious as BBC and concentrate more on the entertainment side.
Yes it is on after watershed as it uses strong language and inappropriate scenes for younger children.








Bad Education 

BBC commissioned this programme
Jack Whitehall produced Bad Education
Target audience-16+ uses of bad,offensive,inappropriate language.
The reason they are on late evening and BBC is because children who are young go to bed which allows the older teenagers and adults to watch this and they would understand the humor as they are more mature.
This show is on after watershed as it is a late show and is aimed for adults to watch and not a young audience and that is why the time is late.