New Patterns in Global Television Formats

By (author) Karina Aveyard

Publication date:

15 November 2016

Publisher

Intellect Books

Dimensions:

229x178mm
7x9"

ISBN-13: 9781783207121

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

The past twenty years have seen major changes in the ways that television formats and programming are developed and replicated internationally for different markets – with locally focused repackagings of hit reality shows leading the way. But in a sense, that’s not new: TV formats have been being exported for decades, with the approach and methods changing along with changes in broadcast technology, markets, government involvement and audience interest. This book brings together scholars of TV formats from around the world to analyse and discuss those changes and offer an up-to the-minute analysis of the current state of TV formats and their use and adaptation worldwide.

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Acknowledgements

Foreword

Toby Miller

Introduction: A Changing Format Mosaic

Karina Aveyard, Pia Majbritt Jensen and Albert Moran

Part 1: Overviews

Chapter 1: Television Format as a Transnational Production Model

Mats Nylund

Chapter 2: The Hybrid Status of Global Television Formats

Claudio Coletta

Chapter 3: Formatting Reality: On Reality Television as a Format, a Genre and a Meta-Genre

Daniel Biltereyst and Lennart Soberon

Chapter 4: Seventy Years in the Making: The Advent of the Transnational Television Format Trading System

Jean K. Chalaby

Part 2: History

Chapter 5: Medea’s Children: The Italian Version of The War of the Worlds

Milly Buonanno

Chapter 6: Cultural Negotiation in an Early Programme Format: The Finnish Adaptation of Romper Room

Heidi Keinonen

Chapter 7: Song Contests in Europe during the Cold War

Yulia Yurtaeva and Lothar Mikos

Chapter 8: “Do It, but Do It Dancing!”: Television and Format Adaptations in Colombia in the 1980s and Early 1990s

Hernan David Espinosa‑Medina and Enrique Uribe‑Jongbloed

Part 3: Industry Players, Big and Small

Chapter 9: From Marginal Trader to Corporate Giant: The Emergence of FremantleMedia

Albert Moran and Karina Aveyard

Chapter 10: Formats and Localization in the Children’s Audiovisual Sector

Jeanette Steemers

Chapter 11: Wallander at the BBC: Trading Fiction Formats and Producing Culture for UK Public Service Broadcasting in the Contemporary Age

Janet McCabe

Chapter 12: Television Formats as Media Ritual Work Practices: Discourses of Freedom, Nationalism and Good Neighbours

Tiina Räisä

Part 4: Territories and Markets

Chapter 13: The Social Contexts of Format Adaptation: Remaking Formats to Fit in China

Michael Keane and Coco Ma

Chapter 14: The Political Economy of Television Formats in Africa: The Case of Big Brother and Idols

Martin Nkosi Ndlela

Chapter 15: Global Reality Television and the Concept of Recursion: Idols in African Contexts

Tess Conner

Chapter 16: Decentring Innovation: The Israeli Television Industry and the Format-driven Transnational Turn in Content Development

Sharon Shahaf

Part 5: Producers and Audiences

Chapter 17: Take a Look at the Lawman: Interrogating Critical Responses to the US Version of Life on Mars

Christopher Hogg

Chapter 18: Sense of Place: Producers and Audiences of International Drama Format at The Bridge

Annette Hill

Chapter 19: The Duality of Banal Transnationalism and Banal Nationalism: Television Audiences and the Musical Talent Competition Genre

Andrea Esser, Pia Majbritt Jensen, Heidi Keinonen and Anna Maria Lemor

Chapter 20: The Voice of Queer Italy: The Politics of the the Representation of GLBTQI (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersexual) Characters in Italian Talent Shows and Their Reception in Online Discussions

Elisa Giomi and Marta Perrotta

About the Contributors

Index