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Which in your opinion is the most ugliest channel and which programs on it makes you say that?
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I'm doing a college project and would like informative in depth answers please as this project is going towards my final media studies exams.
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Maybe if you bothered to educate yourself about the history of soap operas,you would understand that British and American soaps are quite different in their depiction of life- Our soaps have always relied on class distinction -Eastenders,and Corrie are perfect examples-and make for very gritty drama sometimes. Whereas American soaps-especially those of the past 20 years or so-emphasise any class via wealth...and frequently come across as being out of touch with reality.
read this...
" In part because of the regionalism built into the commercial television system, all British soap operas since Coronation Street have been geographically and, to some degree, culturally specific in setting: Crossroads (1964-88) in the Midlands, Emmerdale Farm (1972--) in the Yorkshire Dales, Brookside (1982--) in Liverpool, and the BBC's successful entry in the soap opera field EastEnders (1985--) in the East End of London. All also have been much more specific and explicit in their social and class settings than their American counterparts, and for this reason their fidelity to (and deviation from) some standard of social verisimilitude has been much more of an issue than has ever been the case with American soaps. Coronation Street has been criticized for its cozy, insulated, and outdated representation of the urban working-class community, which for decades seemed to have been bypassed by social change and strife.
Still, by American soap opera standards, British soaps are much more concerned with the material lives of their characters and the characters' positions within a larger social structure. EastEnders, when it was launched in 1985 the BBC's first venture into television serials in twenty years, was designed from the beginning to make contemporary material and social issues part of the fabric of its grubby East End community of pensioners, market traders, petty criminals, shopkeepers, the homeless, and the perennially unemployed."
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Maybe that will help in your research-if you intend to do any.
read this...
" In part because of the regionalism built into the commercial television system, all British soap operas since Coronation Street have been geographically and, to some degree, culturally specific in setting: Crossroads (1964-88) in the Midlands, Emmerdale Farm (1972--) in the Yorkshire Dales, Brookside (1982--) in Liverpool, and the BBC's successful entry in the soap opera field EastEnders (1985--) in the East End of London. All also have been much more specific and explicit in their social and class settings than their American counterparts, and for this reason their fidelity to (and deviation from) some standard of social verisimilitude has been much more of an issue than has ever been the case with American soaps. Coronation Street has been criticized for its cozy, insulated, and outdated representation of the urban working-class community, which for decades seemed to have been bypassed by social change and strife.
Still, by American soap opera standards, British soaps are much more concerned with the material lives of their characters and the characters' positions within a larger social structure. EastEnders, when it was launched in 1985 the BBC's first venture into television serials in twenty years, was designed from the beginning to make contemporary material and social issues part of the fabric of its grubby East End community of pensioners, market traders, petty criminals, shopkeepers, the homeless, and the perennially unemployed."
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Maybe that will help in your research-if you intend to do any.
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