TEXTUAL ANALYSIS- TV LISTINGS
TV shows on ITV and Channel 5
ITV:
Show
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Time
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Genre
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synopsis
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Target audience
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factual
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This morning
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10:30am-12:30pm
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lifestyle
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News show featuring fashion,
cookery and celebrity interviews
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Young females, old enough to
have children, housewife roles- on during midday weekdays so they wouldn’t be
at work
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Loose women
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12:30pm
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Panel show
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panel of four female presenters, featuring
celebrity interviews, discussions about their lives and topical issues such
as politics, current affairs and celebrity gossip
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Young females, also aimed at housewives
as it broadcast midday so they would have to be at home, not working
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I’m a celebrity Get Me Out Of Here
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9pm
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Reality TV/ game show/
entertainment
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Celebrities live in the
Australian jungle, completing challenges to win meals, the celebrity who
‘wins the heart of the public’ will become king/queen
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Broad- peak time
15+
(mainly younger people but
also targets older audience)
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Take me out
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11:45pm-12:40am
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Game show
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a single man tries to obtain a date with one of
thirty single ladies
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Female- romance, women
reviewing single men
15-50
At peak time so a broad
audience
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X Factor
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9pm
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Entertainment/ reality/ music
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Judging panel of 4
celebrities judge contestants’ singing
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Young people
12-60
Broad audience because it is
on after people finish work/ college
Male or female audience
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fictional
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Emmerdale
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7-8pm Monday –Friday
+ 8pm on Thursdays
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Soap opera/ drama
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Set in a fictional village in
Yorkshire, focuses on character ‘Annie Sugden’ and her family
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Female
Broad audience
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Benidorm
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9pm
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Comedy/ sitcom
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Follows a range of holiday
makers trying to enjoy their holidays in an all-inclusive resort in Benidorm
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Female
Young/ middle aged
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Midsomer murders
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9:25am-11:20am
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Drama/ mystery
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British detective drama which
focuses on DCI Barnaby and his attempts to solve multiple murder cases
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Upmarket
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Victoria
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9pm
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Drama/ biography
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Retelling of the life of
Queen Victoria from her coronation when she was 18
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Female
Upmarket
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Coronation street
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8-9pm
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Drama
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Female
Broad
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channel 5
show
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time
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genre
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synopsis
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Target audience
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factual
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Celebrity Big brother
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9/10 pm
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Reality
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Celebrities enter the house and live together completing challenge,
the public vote out contestants until one is the winner
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18-25 demographic
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Can’t pay? Well take it away
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10-11pm
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documentary
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Series showing the dramatic stories of British people in debt
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30+
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5 News at 5
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5pm
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news
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The main news bulletin
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24+
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Autopsy: the last hours of…
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11:05pm
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documentary
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Documentary series that reveals the truth behind the
controversial deaths of global icons and people whose untimely deaths were
surrounded by scandal and intense media attention.
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18+
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Lip sync battle
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10pm
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Reality competition
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2 celebrities compete
in a battle each week through lip syncing
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18-49 demographic
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Fictional
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Peppa pig
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6am
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Animated Children's television series
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Series based on Peppa the pig and her family
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toddlers
2-5
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Fireman Sam
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6:35am
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Animated Children's television series
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Series about a local fireman
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2-6
boys
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The Mr men show
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7:20am
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Animated Children's television series
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The life of the Mr Men and little Misses presented in short skits.
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2-6
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Neighbours
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3pm
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Soap opera
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Serial based on the lives of the residents of Ramsay Street in the
fictional Australian suburb of Erinsborough
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Young people
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borderline
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11:05
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Mockumentary
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Series about UK border official who seem useless at their job
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Young audiences
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Good blogging so far. This post could do with a bit more detail though - are all these programmes suitable for your target audience? Also what genres are they and what times are they on?
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