TV Listings

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I continued my research by looking at both ITV's and Channel 5's television schedules. I picked 5 factual and 5 fictional for each channel, noting down its; genre, target audience, synopsis, channel and time.


Programme title
Channel + time
Synopsis
Genre
Target audience
News
ITV || 8:25 am
A quick overview of current news and events

Audience who works early.
Zoe Ball on Saturday chat show
ITV || 8:30 am
Chat show featuring live music, celebrity guests who discuss hot topics, films, tv shows, books etc.
Talkshow
Middle-aged women.
Middle class
James Martin’s Saturday Morning
ITV || 9:25 am
Host is joined by celebrity guests, they prepare meals together.
Cooking
30 – 50 year old middle-classed.
Jeremy Kyle
ITV || 9:25 am
Guests come on to resovle family/relationship problems
Talkshow
18 – 40 year old men/women. C, C1, D social class.

The Chase
ITV || 5:00 pm
Contestents work as a tea against a quiz expert, the Chaser.
Quizshow
35 – 80 years old.
The Yorkshire Vet
Channel 5 ||
Documentary series following James Herriot’s practise
Factual /
documentary
Young, Female
Rich House, Poor House
Channel 5 || 9pm
A house-swapping show; a rich family and poor family swap lifestyles for a week.
Documentary
Housewives
Get a Holiday Body
Channel || 8pm
A 4 week meal and fitness, support by a professional nutritionist and personal trainer.
Lifestyle
Female, housewives with children
Circus Kids
Channel 5 || 10pm
A documentary series revealing the truth about the world of circus.
Documentary
Family, Parents
The Reality TV Story
Channel 5 || 10pm
How reality TV has changed the face of the medium of television and altered the nature of fame itself.
Documentary
Media enthusiasts, family.
Emmerdale
ITV || 7pm
Soap opera set in a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales
Soap / Drama
Housewives, women 30 - 50
Coronation Street
ITV || 8:30pm
Soap Opera focusing on everyday lives of the working class in Manchester
Soap / Drama
Female, Broad
St. Trinian’s
ITV || 1:10pm
A group of troublesome school girls stage a robbery to save their school from bankruptsy
Film / Comedy
Female, Family
Family Guy
ITV2 || 10pm
Cartoon show where a dysfunctional family strive to cope with everyday life.

Comedy
Teenagers / young adults
Blue Murder
ITV3 || 1am
Exciting crime drama that blends tough murder investigations with the warmth and chaos of family life.
Crime drama
Middle-aged, middle class
Neighbours
Channel 5 || 1:45pm
Soap Opera of everyday life un suburbia, Australia.
Soap / drama
Young adults, female
Home and Away
Channel 5 || 6:30 pm
Set in Summer Bay, Australia, follows trials and tribulations they face in this beachside town.
Soap / Drama
Young adults
Milkshake
Channel 5 || 6am
An early morning childrens TV show, showing a range of cartoons and programmes
Children’s programme
Young children
Walking on Sunshine
Channel 5 || 3:50pm
Sisters Maddie and Taylor both love the same Italian.
Movie / Romance
Young adults / women
Rocky
Channel 5 || 11:15pm
An amateur boxer gets a rare chance to fight a heavy-weight champion.
Film / Drama
Adult / male

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