BBC 1 reacearch

Our mission, vision, and values inform the work of the BBC and are how we promote our public purposes.

The public purposes are set out by the Royal Charter and Agreement, the constitutional basis for the BBC.

Our mission

•  To enrich people's lives with programmes and services that inform, educate and entertain.

Our vision

• To be the most creative organisation in the world.

Our values

• Trust is the foundation of the BBC: we are independent, impartial and honest.
• Audiences are at the heart of everything we do.
• We take pride in delivering quality and value for money.
• Creativity is the lifeblood of our organisation.
• We respect each other and celebrate our diversity so that everyone can give their best.
• We are one BBC: great things happen when we work together.
• The Royal Charter and Agreement also sets out six public purposes for the BBC. See Public purposes.

We run nine national TV services providing entertainment, news, current affairs and arts coverage for the whole of the UK.

Our output is available via digital TV, live online via channel websites and as video-on-demand via BBC iPlayer.

obscenity and transgresive

obscenity and transgresive

obscenity

an extremely offensive word or expression:

"the men scowled and muttered obscenities"

the state or quality of being obscene:

"the book was banned for obscenity"

transgresive

involving a violation of moral or social boundaries:

"her experiences of transgressive love with both sexes"

relating to art or literature in which orthodox moral, social, and artistic boundaries are challenged by the representation of unconventional behaviour and the use of experimental forms.

"the contrast of such transgressive films with their mainstream counterparts should be clear"

TV comedy panel show research

codas and conventions of TV panel shows

 Celebrity Juice, often referred to as Celeb Juice, is a British TV comedy panel game on ITV2. broadcast since 24 September 2008. The show is written and presented by Keith Lemon. the alter-ego of comedian. Leigh Francis.

First episode: 24 Sep 2008

Number of episodes: 169

Episode duration: 50 minutes

Creator: Leigh Francis

Channels: ITV AND ITV2

Origin: United Kingdom

mock of the week

The general format of the show involves the host subjecting the panel, which consist of two teams of three performers (referred to as panellists), to a series of rounds in which they either answer questions on various news topics from the previous week of news, often with them giving improvised comedic answers, or performing comedic challenges based on a subject(s) provided to them (e.g. Healthcare). News topics range from major international news stories to regional news items from within Britain, with the show sometimes including photos and quotes related to the news articles used on the show.

Peter Kay's Car share










PETER KAYS CAR SHARE

The series was commissioned in 2013 by the BBC and was initially made available on BBC iplayer. Co-writers Tim Reid and Paul Coleman's inspiration for the show included Alfred Molina  and Dawn French in the BBC's Roger & Val Have Just Got In and The Smoking Room. Paul Coleman pitched the idea to Peter Kay who he had previously worked with on Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere.

Kayleigh spilt her urine sample over John’s shirt

Kay’s TV career has rather stalled in recent years. Since his last sitcom – the mediocre Max & Paddy’s Road to Nowhere – went off-air a decade ago, he’s been reduced to patchy one-offs, instead concentrating on money-spinning stand-up tours. Car Share represented a triumphant return to TV form. It premiered on iPlayer last week, just to be gratuitously modern and build word-of-mouth buzz, but this was its debut on “proper” telly.

The winningly simple “situation” was that it followed the commute of supermarket workers John (Kay) and Kayleigh (Sian Gibson), thrown together by a company car share scheme. Set almost entirely in John’s dinky red Fiat, it was reminiscent of Rob Brydon’s heartbreaking tragicomic confessional Marion & Geoff or the tight, sofa-wide focus of The Royle Family.

the first episode aired on the 29th of April 2015 and the second episode airing the day after on the 30th of April and then a new episode being released and week after and so on for the next four weeks until the final episode of the first series was aired initially on the 22nd may 2015. on the 3rd of December 2016 Peter Kay announced that a second series has being commissioned and is due to air in may of 2017.  the first series of Peter Kays car share won the British academy television awarded for best situation comedy in 2016.  the entire first series was briefly released on iplayer where is became the most watched series to be watched that was released as a box set.

Genre - sitcom

Network - BBC

Created by - Paul Coleman and Tim Reid

Written by -  Peter Kay , Sian Gibson , Tim Reid and Paul Coleman 

Producer - Gill Isles 

Starring - Peter Kay and Sian Gibson 

Directed by - Peter Kay

Running time -  30 minutes 

Scheduled time - 9:30pm

Production company - Goodnight Vienna Productions 

Number of series : 1 (series 2 has been commissioned)

Number of episodes - 6 

NARRATIVE PLEASURES 

narrative pleasures such as those of narrative resolution.
Ending with a joke that has been built up over the episode and explodes at the end.
character identification snowballing narrative response comedy.
keyleigh is a dizzy bubbly character with a kids sense of humor. Peter Kay has a dry sense of humor and is funny.
Pleasures of recognition familiarity and anticipation.
some neigh bough seen in window staring at peter Kay with the radio songs playing this was from the superstitious episode.
pleasures of difference within repetition.
they pick her up go to work come back from work. A joke is always getting bigger and bigger as the the episode goes on.
performance unpredictability and spontaneity.
pulled over to talk to stranger. he fell over on the way to the car. keyleigh went out with peter for breakfast.
transgression pleasures.
the dogging joke but she thinks it is dog walking not anything to do with anything sexual. so she has a young insentient mind.
specific pleasures associated with performance or personalities.

Walliams and friends audience and institution

Who commissioned the programme?
Shana Allen and Gregory sharp
Who produced it?
King Bert productions. Linked with the BBC.
What audience is it aimed at? Why?
the older generation like over 30s because of the sense of humour and how they tell jokes linked with that age group for example dad dancing.
Why is it on at that time and on that channel? Link to 'type' of comedy and target audience. 
because it has rude humour and it is not suitable for younger kids so its on at 9 so they don't se it because they will be in bed.
Is it on after the watershed? Why?
yes it is on after the watershed because its not recommended at children and its on or after 9 a clock so they don't watch it.

The type of audience pleasures you need to write about in the exam include:

• narrative pleasures such as those of narrative resolution, 
• character identification, snowballing narrative, suspense, comedy, and so on
• pleasures of recognition, familiarity and anticipation
• pleasures of difference-within-repetition
• performance unpredictability and spontaneity
• transgressive pleasures
• specific pleasures associated with performers or personalities.

AUDIENCE PLEASURES

Being a sketch show, Walliams and friend makes sure to feature a series of audience pleasures, as an example, narrative pleasures like a resolution can please an audience by providing an satisfying/funny ending to a skit. 
As an adult audience, more transgressive humour can be used to satisfy them because instead of hearing the crude jokes as a child and not understanding them, they now understand the reference making the adult feel more aware.

A sketch show also uses character identification and snowballing narrative to link jokes and satisfy an audience. Character identification is used to make the audience become more accustomed to the jokes that a specific character makes and how they behave so the audience vaguely knows what to expect from them. This also links with familiarity and recognition. Snowballing narratives are about keeping the joke going by adding more and more punchlines and witty remarks.

Television Comedy

The codes and conventions of TV Comedy mean that comedy sketch shows follow the same format:

1. Content must be funny
2. Each episode is 30 minutes’ long
3. No story line
4. Catch phrases
5. gags
6. Parody
7. simple humor
8. rude

9. Parody

   
   

         Generic hybridization should be distinguished from parody. In contrast to generic hybrids, which combine generic conventions, parodies work by drawing upon other conventions to make us laugh.

   
   

         Parody need not necessarily be comic. When it is comic and occurs within the context of a comedy, laughter is consistently produced by gags and funny lines which specifically use as their raw material the conventions of the genre involved. Blazing Saddles for example isn’t a Western with comic elements or a comedy-western but a comedy which relies upon a knowledge of the Western amongst the audience to work effectively.

   
   

         Parody is a mode or way of doing comedy, not a form. Parody has its own techniques and methods but no particular form or structure. It can occur within a narrative feature film, a comedy sketch, a quasi-documentary. Parody is one of a number of modes available to comedy. Slapstick and satire are other modes.
 



10. Gags

    
    

          The term can apply to any kind of visual comic effect. They can involve a comic effect like a ‘pratfall’ where somebody falls over. In Life is Beautiful (1998), perhaps the darkest of ‘black comedies’, Guido falls off his bike into Dora for example. At the beginning of the film there are a variety of gags which lead the viewer to think that this is comedy which is pure farce as the brakes fail leading the car past a reception for royalty. Gags can be a part of the narrative or else entirely incidental to it. Thelma’s husband putting his feet in the pizza in Thelma and Louise for example.
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