Genres of factual programming

News

• The News gives information on current affairs both nationally and internationally.

• The News gathers information from reliable sources from reliable sources from around the World to relay back to people in the country.

• The News will mostly always be the first to report on a suitable story.

News

Examples of news programmes are “BBC News” and “ITV News”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newshttp://www.itv.com/news/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvIUa47x_Oc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPYq6K9Myvc

Documentary

• Documentaries give information on a specific subject. E.g. The history channel will give facts about past wars, monuments and memorials etc.

• Documentaries will commonly show the same presenters on a certain topic e.g. David Attenborough – Wild life, Reggie Yates – Modern topics, Brian Cox – Space and physics.

Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhO0GCNSZ_w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUmsKcIFL1Q

Documentary

Docudrama

• A docudrama is a genre of television programming, feature film and staged theatre, which features dramatize re-enactments of events.

Docudrama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmKNdX9F-uU&list=PLTCIqF3o0x1jsarBTdDGG8FcgAZxaTk1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhyjIMrFlpw

Dog day afternoon

Docusoap

• A docusoap is a documentary that follows people in a particular occupation or location over a period of time.

Idiot abroad

Docusoaps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-LM_z7a_yg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0V7uke8pu4

Infotainment

• A television program that presents information (as news) in a manner intended to be entertaining.

Infotainment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R91IjOfED4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FudxTS9KBhw

Reality TV

• Reality television is a genre of television that documents real life, unscripted scenarios and situations. However in some cases there is some sort of script with unprofessional actors.

Reality TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiouFk1yGf8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0nNSNoBuLg

Educational

Educational TV is the use of television programs in the attempt to educate the audience in a particular subject.

Educational

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fril6kcriM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YgdX4JhqIc

Wild life

• Wild life programmes are programs that will usually showcase and educate people about wildlife.

Wild life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU7iqasKaKk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq-SQRxc7f8

Special interest

• Special interest programmes are programmes that people may have a particular interest in. from religion to highway patrols.

Special interest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6euIN2JHqQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU2bhFDYk7M

Makeover

• Makeover TV programmes are programmes that follow the transformation of someone or something, normally in a reality TV style.

Makeover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjUjIPh7xuE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nMrFh-RJMA

Magazine

• Magazine TV programmes are light hearted news programmes that go over multiple subjects with multiple presenters.

Magazine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3OO0wFshTk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4axcL8WDUc

Discussion

• Discussion TV programmes are programmes which host discussions on certain topics such as politics and other publics topics

Discussion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9ZNfa2NeKc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFmDePLUNV0

Review

• Review TV programmes, are programmes that go over the pros and cons of certain things, be it cars or films etc.

Review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwXkM4QSLb8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zcz0AJynD0

Chat Shows

• Chat shows are programmes where a host will invite a celebrity guest onto their show to talk about their current affairs.

Chat Shows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHYgUh_GotM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JVFchbsNzM