New Patterns in Global Television Formats

The past twenty years have seen major changes in the ways that television formats and programming are developed and replicated internationally for different markets—with locally focused repackagings of hit reality shows leading the way. But in a sense, that’s not new: TV formats have been being exported for decades, with the approach and methods changing along with changes in broadcast technology, markets, government involvement, and audience interest. This book brings together scholars of TV formats from around the world to analyze and discuss those changes and offer an up-to-the-minute analysis of the current state of TV formats and their use and adaptation worldwide.
 

Karina Aveyard is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Sydney and a lecturer in film and television studies at the University of East Anglia. Pia Majbritt Jensenis an associate professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. Albert Moran is professor in screen studies in the School of Humanities at Griffith University.