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The Media Has Been Evolving According To The Evolution Of Beadle's

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In this essay I will be exploring the ways in which concepts of how TV genres has been evolving according to how society has been changing. I will mention the ways in which British television genres and shows have developed to shape its meaning with time due to society’s values, cultural shifts, different trends, fashion development, and life styles changes. This means that genre is never neutral or universal, it is also ideological. Genre theory also plays a major impact in genre study and television as it ‘ deals with the ways in which a work may be considered to belong to a class of related works’ (Feuer , J:1992:4) explaining that every TV group belongs to a category of production and have a purpose towards a specific audience and their needs. In this essay I will be …show more content…

The element of surprise and peoples real reactions caught the audience’s attentions that later on brought about new ideas. The aspect of there being a hidden camera also brought curiosity amongst the audience as they had high expectations of something hilarious to happen . It was then when the evolution of reality TV started to develop as a different side of entertainment was introduced into society. It is mentioned that theories of evolution in TV ‘develop by recombining and commenting on earlier instances of their own genre’ ‘a recombination of previous genres’ (158).This explains the vast development of reality TV as audiences had a huge liking in the entertainment market, thus sub genres of reality TV with similar concepts and charms being created. An example of this is British show you’ve been framed (1990) that had similar components of Beadles About such as the element of being recorded and acting naturally. However it included viewers sending humorous home videos, capturing funny and embarrassing

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