Playing the Reality Card: Factual TV Programming for a New Broadcasting Age
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Richard Kilborn
Abstract
This article provides some reflections on developments in factual TV programming in the UK in the last couple of decades. In principle, the term ‘factual programming’ covers an extremely wide range of material and could include news and current affairs as well as a number of other genres that one could regard as ‘non-fiction’ in their general orientation (see Hill 2007, 3-5). For the purposes of this article, however, I will confine my remarks to types of work which producers claim has a certain affinity with documentary and to which broadcasters themselves will generally attach the label ‘factual’ in their schedule information and in other promotional material. Even so, the amount of programming that is paraded under the factual banner still remains relatively extensive. It ranges from the cheap and cheerful docu-soap to the more challenging multi-part documentaries on topics of more serious concern
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- Inhalt
- Editorial
- Introduction: “The Creative Treatment of Actuality” – New Documentarism
- Truth or Consequences: Individuality, Reference, and the Fiction/Nonfiction Distinction
- New Documentarism on Stage: Documentary Theatre in New Times
- Playing the Reality Card: Factual TV Programming for a New Broadcasting Age
- Taking Aim: New Documentary and War
- Shelley, Malley, Carey: A Performative Hermeneutics of Faking and Hoaxing
- Buchbesprechungen
- Bucheingänge
- Die Autoren dieses Heftes
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- Inhalt
- Editorial
- Introduction: “The Creative Treatment of Actuality” – New Documentarism
- Truth or Consequences: Individuality, Reference, and the Fiction/Nonfiction Distinction
- New Documentarism on Stage: Documentary Theatre in New Times
- Playing the Reality Card: Factual TV Programming for a New Broadcasting Age
- Taking Aim: New Documentary and War
- Shelley, Malley, Carey: A Performative Hermeneutics of Faking and Hoaxing
- Buchbesprechungen
- Bucheingänge
- Die Autoren dieses Heftes
