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Understanding the Global TV Format - Softcover

Albert Moran; Justin Malbon

 
9781841501321: Understanding the Global TV Format
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1841501328 ISBN 13: 9781841501321
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2006

Synopsis

Recent years have seen an astonishing growth in the adaptation of program formats in television systems across the world. Under the new market conditions of the multi-channel cluster brought about by new technologies and increased privatisation of service, the adaptation of successful and popular TV formats from one place to another is occurring on an increasingly regular basis. Hence the remaking of different national versions of Big Brother and Pop idol are only part of what is going on. In fact, from Chinese versions of Coronation Street and Sex and the City, Indian and Indonesian remakes of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? program clones of Ground Force and other make-over and renovation shows across Europe and the UK, the present is the era of the global TV format.

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Review

'Albert Moran with Justin Malbon wrote a very timely book which will be useful for anyone studying and/or researching global television industries... Moran's book is especially useful and illuminating as it provides an examination of the institutional background and motivations of the development of global tv formats using interviews with prominent people from the industry.' -- Dr Agnes Gulyas, Art, Design and Media Subject centre.

Synopsis

Recent years have seen an astonishing growth in the adaptation of program formats in television systems across the world. Under the new market conditions of the multi-channel cluster brought about by new technologies and increased privatisation of service, the adaptation of successful and popular TV formats from one place to another is occurring on an increasingly regular basis. Hence the remaking of different national versions of Big Brother and Pop idol are only part of what is going on. In fact, from Chinese versions of Coronation Street and Sex and the City, Indian and Indonesian remakes of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? program clones of Ground Force and other make-over and renovation shows across Europe and the UK, the present is the era of the global TV format.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1841501328
ISBN 13 
9781841501321
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
256