TV Comedy: Comedy Scheduling

ITV CONTINUEDGCSE Media Studies: TV Comedy

Learning Objectives:

To be able to…• Explore the ethos and

regional identity of ITV.

SJS: Research, Teamwork

Starter• ITV idents: http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDuBEO9Mt3A

• What image is ITV trying to reflect through each ident?

• ELT: Design a new ident for ITV1, maintaining their current house style.

Regional Identity of ITV• How many regional programmes can you identify in a

week’s TV schedule?

• When are they broadcast?

• What do the programmes indicate about your region and its audience?

ITV Local• Go to: http://www.itv.com/local

• Spend some time exploring the website, looking at the different regions and the types of articles featured on each.

• How does this appeal to a local audience?• How would you improve the content?• Would you watch/access ITV local news? Why/why not?

COMEDY SCHEDULINGGCSE Media Studies: TV Comedy

Learning Objectives:

To be able to…• Discover how institutions

organise comedy programming.

SJS: Research, Teamwork

TV Comedy Scheduling

Group work. Pick out all TV Comedy programming for 1 week from BBC1 and ITV1 schedules. Ask them to analyse their findings using the following criteria:

• How many hours of comedy programming was shown by BBC1 and how much was shown by ITV1?

• What type of comedy programmes were they?

• When were they broadcast?

• Which channel shows the best, most diverse comedy output, BBC1 or ITV1? Students may work in groups.

SitcomsPanel showsSketch shows

Comedy chat seriesStand up

Plenary

Join another group and compare your findings.