Beginning 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.
PART 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
