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.