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Panel Show Research

Research

Codes and Conventions

• Current affairs montage title sequence, sometimes animated.
• Upbeat music, fast-pace and loud soundtrack.
• Contestants are sat around a panel which can be easily seen to represent two teams.
• Can hear audience clapping and cheering before you seen them.
• Set is backlit, at least start with, the name of the program is on the set behind them.
• Camera zooms over audience to host and then pans or cuts to contestants as they are introduced.
• There are lots of cameras filming the show and there are many different angles.

Channels that broadcast Panel shows

• Celebrity Juice=ITV
• Mock of the week=BBC 2
• Have I got news for you=BBC 1
• Why would I lie to you?=BBC 1
• 8 out of 10 cats=All 4
• A league of their own=Sky 1
• The big fat quiz of the year=All 4
• Insert name here=BBC 2

Times are Panel shows on and how long they are on for

• Celebrity Juice=
• Mock of the week=22:00-half an hour
• Have I got news for you=
• Why would I lie to you?=20:00-half an hour
• 8 out of 10 cats=
• A league of their own=
• The big fat quiz of the year=
• Insert name here=22:00-half and hour

Peter Kay Facts

Peter Kay

• He was born 2 July 1973.
• He is an English comedian and actor.
• He did a stand-up comedy tour in 2010-2011, playing to over 1.2 million people.
• He has written, produced, and acted in several award winning television and film projects and he has authored 3 books.
• In 2015, he starred in BBC sitcoms Peter Kay's Car Share and Cradle to Grave.
•  In 2016, he won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Male Comedy Performance, the BAFTA TV Award for Best Scripted Comedy and the National Television Award for Best Comedy for Car Share.
• He also received an honorary doctorate from The University of Salford.

Peter Kay

Walliams and Friends Research

Walliams And Friends

• Who commissioned the programme?

BBC (Shane Allen and Gregor Sharp)

• Who produced it?

King Bert Productions (Sarah Fraser)

• What audience is it aimed at? Why?

16+, this is because there are sexual references and transgressive humor.

• Why is it on at that time and on that channel? Link to 'type' of comedy and target audience.

It is on after The Watershed because of sexual references. It is on BBC because that's who commissioned the show.

Audience Pleasures

The type of audience pleasures you need to write about in the exam include:

• narrative pleasures such as those of narrative resolution, 
• character identification, snowballing narrative, suspense, comedy, and so on
• pleasures of recognition, familiarity and anticipation
• pleasures of difference-within-repetition
• performance unpredictability and spontaneity
• transgressive pleasures
• specific pleasures associated with performers or personalities.

Comedy Programmes: Carshare

Carshare Research

• The writers of Carshare are: Peter Kay, Sian Gibson, Paul Coleman and Tim Reid.
• The scheduled broadcast for the programme is on a Friday at 21:30pm.
• Codes and Conventions of Situation Comedy:

         -Family (central characters of sitcoms)

         -Audience (target/viewers)

         -Realism (realistic storylines/humor by exaggeration/empathy)

         -Timings (length of programme/weekly)

         -Sets (domestic/workplace)

         -Stereotypes (recognisable/challenged?)

         -Simple Narrative (equilibrium, disequilibria, resolution)

         -Cast (regular, outside characters to cause disequilibria)

         -Canned Laughter (prompts audience to laugh)

• The viewing figures for the programme was: 6.85 million on their opening episode, 2.5 million watching on BBC I player
• Some of the reviews on the programme were: 'very funny', 'made me genuinely LOL'
• There was 1 series and 6 episodes altogether.