Factual entertainment on British television

Brunsdon, Charlotte; Johnson, Catherine; Moseley, Rachel; Wheatley, Helen

doi:10.1177/136754940100400102

Cited by 102 publications

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“…De mange sundhedstematiserende tv-programmer skyldtes dels eksistensen af flere tvkanaler, hvor et sådant programindhold kunne sendes og ses, dels at man begyndte at betragte sundhed som et programindhold, der kunne integreres i den prime time livsstilsprogramflade, man, inspireret af isaer de britiske tv-kanaler, strategisk satsede på (Brunsdon et al, 2001). Programmer om livsstil havde altid vaeret til stede på tv's sendeflade, men fra slutningen af 1980'erne var man, som Palmer redegør for, begyndt at udvikle programmer med et bredere livsstilsperspektiv, der tilbød "to change a person's home, appearance and Christa Lykke Christensen Article: Sundhed på tv indeed sense of self" (Palmer, 2008, p. 1).…”

Section: Sundhed Og Livsstil Som Mediestofunclassified

Sundhed på tv: fra læge til sundhedsguru

Christensen¹

2013

MedieKultur

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<p>This article concerns health programs that the Danish public service broadcaster DR produced from the 1990s to 2012. The study is based on a qualitative content analysis of selected health programs and considers the purpose of the programs, their generic composition, and their positioning of the viewer as well as their intention to communicate knowledge about health. The article is theoretically informed by mediatization theory and demonstrates how the medium of television influences the discursive construction of health in factual programming. In the early 1990s, television relied primarily on health expertise from institutions outside of the media, and the programs made use of external experts. Today, the media to a greater extent creates its own know-how experts, who are produced and tailored to the needs of television and the demand for dramatically successful entertainment. This article demonstrates how the early factual programs were dominated by information on illness, medical treatment, and nursing care, communicated by medical experts and laymen. Today’s programs present health as an individual and entrepreneurial project that rapidly changes and improves the individual’s lifestyle and behavior.</p>

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Sundhed på tv: fra læge til sundhedsguru

Christensen¹

2013

MedieKultur

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“…It is this latter category that has received the most attention within television studies in recent years following what Brunsdon (2003) terms the 'lifestyling of British television' from the 1990s onwards (see also Brunsdon et al 2001). The focus here has primarily been on various notions of the ordinary, including the 'ordinari-nization' of television itself (Brunsdon et al 2001, p. 53), the transformation of ordinary people through makeover strategies (Lewis 2008;Weber 2009;Ouellette and Hay 2009) and the construction of the TV personality or expert as 'ordinary/extraordinary' so as to position them as 'just like' the audience despite exhibiting certain levels of knowledge, control and power (Bonner 2003).…”

Section: The Television Entrepreneur and Celebritymentioning

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The celebrity entrepreneur on television: profile, politics and power

Boyle

Kelly

2010

Celebrity Studies

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This article examines the rise of the 'celebrity entrepreneur' on television through the emergence of the 'business entertainment format' and considers the ways in which regular television exposure can be converted into wider media and political capital. Within television studies there has been a preoccupation in recent years with how lifestyle and reality formats work to transform 'ordinary' people into celebrities.As a result, the contribution of vocationally skilled business professionals to factual entertainment programming has gone almost unnoticed. This article begins by looking at the construction of entrepreneurs as different types of television personalities as well as how discourses of work, skill and knowledge function in business shows. It then outlines how entrepreneurs can utilize their newly acquired televisual skills to cultivate a wider media profile and secure various forms of political access and influence. Integral to this is the centrality of public relations and media management agencies in shaping media discourses and developing the individual as a 'brand identity' that can be used to endorse a range of products or ideas. In turn, policy makers and politicians have attempted to mobilize the media profile of celebrity entrepreneurs in an attempt to reach out and connect with the public on business and enterprise-related issues.

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“…In the case of the Anglophone and Northern European region, the net exporters or market leaders are of course the USA followed by the UK. The most obvious consequence of this in the Northern European TV systems is that these systems -also when it comes to the Scandinavian taste for the lifestyle genre -have historically found much of their televisual inspiration in especially the UK, which is also where the contemporary lifestyle genre is thought to have originated (Brunsdon et al, 2001).…”

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The international extent and elasticity of lifestyle television

Jensen

2008

MedieKultur

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Lifestyle is a TV genre that exists predominantly on the screens of Northern Europe and Anglophone countries such as the UK, the USA and Australia. Hence, lifestyle formats are not traded globally but rather trans-nationally within a distinct geo-linguistic region. Nonetheless, lifestyle programming is still produced very differently within this region according to the media systemic conditions of the specific national TV markets and the specific broadcasters and channels in question. As such, the lifestyle genre is indeed tremendously flexible and elastic and can be used in a diverse number of ways, catering for local broadcasters' image and target groups, local markets' competitive conditions, media regulations, and history. This article investigates the international extent of the genre and looks into possible explanations for its Anglophone and Northern European bias. Subsequently, the great elasticity of the genre is examined by way of a thorough analysis of the Australian and Danish versions of the program format The Block, which will demonstrate precisely how the genre can be adapted radically differently to suit two diverse broadcasters and their diverse conditions.

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Factual entertainment on British television

Cited by 102 publications

References 8 publications

Sundhed på tv: fra læge til sundhedsguru

Sundhed på tv: fra læge til sundhedsguru

The celebrity entrepreneur on television: profile, politics and power

The international extent and elasticity of lifestyle television

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