Television Textuality. Textual Forms in Live Television Programming

摘要

The article discusses the production of live television formats, as they have developed inEurope during the past decade. The analytical examples are taken from entertainment aswell as factual television, and from public service as well as commercial contexts. In thearticle, it is argued that there has been an approximation between the textual features andgeneric and narrative structures of entertainment and factual live television, and a model is presented that is supposed to account for these narrative patterns.