MEDIA STUDIEScoursework

ITV 1/2ITV is a network of channels which air a variety of T.V shows on national television. As a collective the channel is known as ITV but devides into sub channels ITV 1,2 and 3.

The ITV1 name was only used in England, Wales, Southern Scotland and Isle of Man until Channel Television adopted the name in January 2006, bringing it to the Channel Islands. It aims to attract the widest possible audience by offering a range of high quality programmes that are inclusive in their appeal, particularly at peak viewingtimes.

ITV1’s success relies on its ability to appeal to the widest possible range of tastes and interests, ages and cultures, and programme diversity is also a statutory requirement in new broadcasting legislation expected to be enacted during 2003. The ITV1 schedule will therefore include the following programme genres in 2003-4: drama, entertainment, national and international news, current affairs, arts, religious and ethical programmes, sport, adult, social action and feature films.

Genres: Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Fantasy | ThrillerAudience: (generally a very broad audience)Teenagers | Adults | Elderely

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/itc/uploads/ITV_Statement_of_Programme_Commitment_2003.pdf

BroachchurchBroadchurch is a British television crime drama broadcast on ITV, involving the death of a young boy and the search for his killer, produced by Kudos and starring David Tennant and Olivia Colman. Casting was announced in June 2012, with filming commencing in Clevedon in August as well as in West Bay in Bridport. The series is set on the Dorset coast. It premiered on 4 March 2013 at 9:00pm.

Genre: Drama | Crime

Audience:Drama/Crime fans | David tenant fans

Press release: http://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-packs/broadchurch

The Vampire Diaries The vampire diaries is a supernatural telivision programme based on a series of books written by Lisa Jane Smith. The show is based in a town called mystic falls which is riddled with vampires, witches, wolves and other mysterious characters. It is about 3 specific characters and their journey as a vampire and desire to be unknown and concqour their troubles.

Genre:Supernatural | Thriller | Romance

Audience:Teenagers | Young Adults

Press release:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1405406/

BBC 1/3The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcasting statutory corporation. Its main responsibility is to provide impartial public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man. The BBC is headquartered at Broadcasting House in London and has major production centres in Salford Quays, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff and Glasgow, and smaller production centres throughout the UK. The BBC is the world's oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, with about 23,000 staff.

The BBC should broadcast individual programmes that bring together a very wide range of people – for example, great state occasions, important national sports events and high-quality entertainment.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/about/how_we_govern/purpose_remits/nations.pdf

Genre:Drama | Comedy | Sci-fi Audience:Teenagers | Adults | Elderley

Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme. It depicts the adventures of a Time Lord, a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor. He explores the universe in his Tardis, a time-travelling space ship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, the Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilisations, help ordinary people, and right wrongs.

Genre:Sci-fi

Audience:Teenagers | Sci-fi fans

Press release:http://news.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/doctor-who-full-press-release/

TorchwoodTorchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. The series is a spin-off from the 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who. In contrast to Doctor Who, whose target audience includes both adults and children, Torchwood is aimed at an older audience.

Genre:Sci-fi | Drama

Audiences: Genre fans | Doctor Who fans

Press release: http://www.garethdavid-lloyd.co.uk/twpr.html

Channel 4/E4

http://www.channel4.com/media/documents/corporate/annual-reports/Ch4_Annual_Report_2012.pdf

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began transmission on 2 November 1982. Channel 4 is the provision of a broad range of high quality and diverse programming which, in particular demonstrates innovation, experiment and creativity in the form and content of programmes. It appeals to the tastes and interests of a culturally diverse society. It generally airs popular dramas with sub-genres such as thriller horror sci-fi and crime.

Channel 4 is also available outside the United Kingdom where it is widely available in Ireland, Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands. Here viewers receive the channel either on basic cable subscription services or premium services.

There are a variety of channels which branch from channel 4, for example; 4od, 4music and also e4. E4 broadcasts popular dramas particularly for the teenager generation. Misfits and formerly the popular comedy, friends.

Genre:Drama | Sci-fi | Thriller | Crime

Audience:Teenagers | Adults | Elderley

Freshmeat Fresh Meat is a British Drama sitcom created by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain. The first episode was broadcast on Channel 4 on 21 September 2011, and aired on Wednesdays at 10 pm. The plot revolves around the lives of six students who are freshers (with the exception of Howard) at the fictional Manchester Medlock University, Manchester. They live in a shared house off-campus in Rusholme rather than university halls of residence, due to their late application.

Genre:Drama | Comedy

Audience:Teenagers | University Students

Press release: http://www.channel4.com/info/press/programme-information/fresh-meat

MisfitsMisfits is a British science fiction comedy-drama television show, on the network Channel 4, about a group of young offenders sentenced to work in a community service programme, where they obtain supernatural powers after a strange electrical storm. The series started in 2009 and is currently on-going. The first series started broadcasting in the U.K. on 12 November 2009 on E4.

Genre:Drama | Sci-fi | Comedy Audience:Teenagers | Fans of the genre

Press release:http://www.channel4.com/info/press/programme-information/misfits-s3