Creating TV Formats

Humor & Entertainment

Green, Linda

Miller, Catriona

Marshall, Hazel

Television

Routledge

Draws on the authors' extensive careers in television to describe the process of creating a successful media format, presenting the tricks and techniques you need to create, develop and sell your own formats. Each chapter addresses a key elements of a good format, such as audience, structure or business, and shows how they work in current successful formats. Includes insightful case studies based on interviews with experienced television professonals such as Stephen Lambert, creator of Undercover Boss and Gogglebox. Teaches students to create a format bible that will enable them to create a defined set of rules which will make their format recognisable, repeatable and capable of evolving.

Cult TV Heroines: Angels, Aliens and Amazons

From Mrs Peel to the first female Doctor Who, this book offers a timely focus on the popular phenomenon of the cult TV heroine. The enduring phenomenon of cult TV itself is carefully explored through questions of genre, the role of the audience and the external environment of technological advances and business drivers. Catriona Miller then suggests a fresh account of the psychological dimension of the phenomenon utilising Carl Jung's concepts of the transcendent function and active imagination. Her analysis of the heroines themselves considers the workings of the audio-visual text alongside narrative and character arcs, exploring the complex and contradictory ways in which the heroines are represented. Established cult TV favourites such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X Files, and Xena: Warrior Princess are examined alongside more recent shows such as Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Jessica Jones and American Horror Story: Coven.

Pop Culture

Bloomsbury Academic

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