New Patterns in Global Television Formats. This item is unavailable.New Patterns in Global Television Formats

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.

Karina Aveyard is a lecturer in the School of Film, Television and Media at the University of East Anglia. Her essays have been published in Media International Australia, Participations and Studies in Australasian Cinema, and she is co-editor of a forthcoming collection titled Watching Films: New Perspectives on Movie-Going, Exhibition and Reception (Intellect Books, 2013) Karina’s research interests include rural and community cinemas, exhibition and distribution and Australian films.