TV formats worldwide : localising global programs /

TV formats worldwide : localising global programs / Television formats worldwide edited by Albert Moran. - Bristol ; Chicago : Intellect, 2009. - 1 online resource (332 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : 'Descent and modification' / Rethinking the local-global nexus through multiple modernities : the case of Arab reality television / When TV formats are translated / Imagining the national : gatekeepers and the adaptation of global franchises in Argentina / Trading in TV entertainment : an analysis / The rise of the business entertainment format on British television / Collaborative reproduction of attraction and performance : the case of the reality show Idol / Auditioning for Idol : the audience dimension of format franchising / Adapting global television to regional realities : traversing the Middle East experience / How national media systems shape the localization of formats : a transnational case study of The block and Nerds FC in Australia and Denmark / Transcultural localization strategies of global TV formats : The office and Stromberg / Tearing up television news across borders : format transfer of news parody shows between Italy and Bulgaria / Defining the local : a comparative study of news in Northern Ireland / Independent television production, TV formats and media diversity in China / A place in the sun : global seriality and the revival of domestic television drama in Italy / Idol in a small country : New Zealand idol as the commoditization of cosmopolitan intimacy / From global to glocal : Australianizing the makeover format / Albert Moran -- Marwan M. Kraidy -- Albert Moran -- Silvio Waisbord and Sonia Jalfin -- Katja Lantzsch, Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen and Andreas Will -- Raymond Boyle -- Yngver Njus -- Doris Baltruschat -- Amos Owen Thomas -- Pia Majbrit Jensen -- Edward Larkey -- Gabriele Cosentino, Waddick Doyle and Dimitrina Todorova -- Sujatha Sosale and Charles Munro -- Michael Keane and Bonnie Liu -- Milly Buonanno -- Barry King -- Tania Lewis.

Beginning around 2003, television studies has seen the growth of interest in the genre of reality shows. However, concentrating on this genre has tended to sideline the even more significant emergence of the program format as a central mode of business and culture in the new television landscape. TV Formats Worldwide redresses this balance, and heralds the emergence of an important, exciting and challenging area of television studies. Topics explored include reality TV, makeover programs, sitcoms, talent shows and fiction serials, as well as broadcaster management policies, production decision.

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