Discuss in detail how one programme offers audience pleasures. Give examples from the programme. [15]

'Bad Education' is a British sitcom, staring Jack Whitehall as a young teacher this also gives the audience the ability to build relationships with each of the characters further into the series as they get to know them. Bad education gives audience pleasures by creating awkward scenarios between characters like Mr.Wickers/Alfie and the students parents; for example in one of the episodes the school are presenting a sex education day in front of the students parents. Alfie and the head teacher walk into the assembly hall and the students are on stage dancing in a sexual manor, this is immediately awkward for the audience giving transgressive pleasures as it also puts them in a very awkward cringy position.Bad education has a narrative resolution every episode that it starts the same place it ends which is school providing a familiarity that comforts the viewer. Also the program identifies with characters when Mr.Wickers is being immature and acting almost like a school student it familiarizes his childish attitude with the audience. Alfie plays the character of the likable idiot which is a character that audiences warms to almost immediately due to his immature attitude and oblivious mind set that always that gets him into a awkward situations. Character Identification is used often in Bad Education; and is very effective because Alfie is a popular character to the audience, as he is the most likable in the show out of the teachers.

Inbetweeners.

The Inbetweeners is a British sitcom that originally aired on E4 from 2008 to 2010. Created and written by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris. E4 originally aired the first series in May 2008, and Channel 4 also broadcast it in November that year. The second series began screening in the UK on 2 April 2009 and finished on 7 May 2009.


Inbetweeners was on the watershed (after 9:00am) this means that the target audience would be older teenagers and young adults, E4 are a digital television program that have many similar comedy programs so they grew a specific audience they need to cater for, this means the Inbetweeners was a good program that matched the audiences preferred genre.

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Bad Education.



The first series started airing on 14 August 2012. On 23 August 2012, it was announced that Bad Education would have a second series. The second series began airing on BBC Three on 3 September 2013. The program airs after the watershed (9:00am) meaning its target audience are of the middle/young adult category.


Bad Education is a British sitcom produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Three.










Friday night dinner

Its a series staring Simon bird, Tom Rosenthal, Paul Ritter and Tasmin Grieg. Friday night dinner is a TV comedy on Channel four aimed at years 16 and above because it was aired on the watershed.
Written by Robbert Popper and the first series originally aired from 25 February 2011 on Channel 4.


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