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Book SynopsisBeginning around 2003, the growth of interest in the genre of reality shows has dominated the field of television studies. 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 chains, and audience participation processes. This seminal work will be of considerable interest to media scholars worldwide.
Table of ContentsPART I: INTRODUCTION Chapter 1: Introduction: ‘Descent and Modification’
Albert Moran PART II: MODELLING AND THEORY-BUILDING Chapter 2: Rethinking the Local–Global Nexus Through Multiple Modernities: The Case of Arab Reality Television
Marwan M. Kraidy Chapter 3: When TV Formats are Translated
Albert Moran Chapter 4: Imagining the National: Gatekeepers and the Adaptation of Global Franchises in Argentina
Silvio Waisbord and Sonia Jalfin PART III: INSTITUTIONAL APPROACHES Chapter 5: Trading in TV Entertainment: An Analysis
Katja Lantzsch, Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen and Andreas Will Chapter 6: The Rise of the Business Entertainment Format on British Television
Raymond Boyle Chapter 7: Collaborative Reproduction of Attraction and Performance: The Case of the Reality Show Idol
Yngver Njus Chapter 8: Auditioning for Idol: The Audience Dimension of Format Franchising
Doris Baltruschat PART IV: COMPARATIVE CROSS-BORDER STUDIES Chapter 9: Adapting Global Television to Regional Realities: Traversing the Middle East Experience
Amos Owen Thomas Chapter 10: How National Media Systems Shape the Localization of Formats: A Transnational Case Study of The Block and Nerds FC in Australia and Denmark
Pia Majbrit Jensen Chapter 11: Transcultural Localization Strategies of Global TV Formats: The Office and Stromberg
Edward Larkey Chapter 12: Tearing Up Television News Across Borders: Format Transfer of News Parody Shows between Italy and Bulgaria
Gabriele Cosentino, Waddick Doyle and Dimitrina Todorova PART V: NATIONAL IMAGININGS Chapter 13: Defining the Local: A Comparative Study of News in Northern Ireland
Sujatha Sosale and Charles Munro Chapter 14: Independent Television Production, TV Formats and Media Diversity in China
Michael Keane and Bonnie Liu Chapter 15: A Place in the Sun: Global Seriality and the Revival of Domestic Television Drama in Italy
Milly Buonanno Chapter 16: Idol in a Small Country: New Zealand Idol as the Commoditization of Cosmopolitan Intimacy
Barry King Chapter 17: From Global to Glocal: Australianizing the Makeover Format
Tania Lewis Afterword
Manuel Alvarado
