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1. Question 4: Section B
TV Comedy
L/O: to know the exam content

2. The exam content
4A: Institutions (Scheduling) (15 marks)
4B: Audience (15 marks)
You will be studying 2 TV comedies:
1. Mrs Brown’s boys (BBC1)
2. Peep show (Channel 4)

3. The sections in short
A
INSTITUION
B
AUDIENCE
Scheduling of TV comedies
-what channel
-funding
-know the channel/institutional
context (what the channel are all
about – their ethos/remit)
-what time
-all in relation to their target
audience
-how shows appeal and target
their target audiences
-techniques they use to appeal to
their audience
-looking at specific examples from
the shows and analysing how they
appeal to audiences

4. Trailers
• MRS BROWN’S BOYS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InN2bySN85s
• PEEP SHOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo9NzNcbKPA

5. 1A: Institution (scheduling)
L/O: to know the exam content

6. What is institution?
• Media institutions are organisations responsible for:
• Production
• Marketing
• Distribution
• Or regulation ………of media texts
Examples:

7. The focus of 4A is SCHEDULING
• Why on that channel?
• Why on that particular day?
• Why on at that particular time?
• In relation to audiences of course

8. Exam question

9. Scheduling - Background
• TV channels are funded in different ways.
• TV channels all have a REMIT (ie what they have to do).
• All TV channels need audiences to watch their programmes
(no matter how they are funded and no matter what their
REMIT is).

10. Scheduling - Background
• To try to get the audience watching SCHEDULERS have the job of arranging
the programmes that the channel can show in the best order.
• They use certain techniques to achieve this.
• TV Channels have an ethos – i.e. an identity. (Ethos = guiding beliefs or
ideals)
• The programmes that they show generally are chosen to fit in with this ethos.
• The ethos of a TV channel will heavily influence who the target audience is
for the channel.

11. TV channels: what do they want to achieve?
• AUDIENCES TO WATCH THEIR CHANNELS!
BBC
• Helps to justify having a TV licence to pay for their
channels/programmes
CHANNEL 4
• Need audiences so they can sell their advertising space

12. Funding
TV channels are funded by: ?
• TV licences (BBC)
OR
• Advertising + programme sponsorship
• Subscriptions
• Selling rights/formats abroad

13. TITLE: CHANNEL 4 DETAILS
• L/O:
1. To review the facts about 4A
2. To know the institutional details of Channel 4 and review these facts

14. SITCOMS
You are studying SITCOMS for QUESTION 4.
*SITCOM = situational comedy
• A situation comedy, or sitcom, is a genre of comedy centred on characters
who share a common environment, such as a home or workplace, with often-
humorous dialogue