The high-pressured, fast-paced environment of television production leaves little time for producers to reflect on how the potentialities of texts and images will be interpreted outside of the immediate broadcast imperatives. This volume brings together the producers and analysts of television in a formal and productive way.

PART I Introduction to Part I - The Analysis of the Television Product; Roberta Piazza and Louann Haarman1. Promotional Videos: What Do They Tell Us About the Value of News?; Monika Bednarek and Helen Caple2. Evaluation as Positioning in English Language World News Channels; Alison Duguid3. Overweight and Obesity in Television News; Catriona Bonfiglioli4. Camera Angles in Television News: Designed to Communicate?; Scott Koga-Browes5. The Representation of Travellers in Television Documentaries: Dispelling Stigma While Dealing with Infotainment Demands; Roberta Piazza 6. Television, Collective Memory and the Commemoration Cure; Nuria Lorenzo-Dus7. MasterChef: Cooking Competition across Cultures; Louann Haarman PART IIIntroduction to Part II - What''s Behind the Screen?; Hilary Bruffell and Anne Caborn8. What Makes the News Newsworthy: Position and Priority as Considerations in the Channel 4 News Room: Jon Snow, C49. News as Political Commitment and Observations on Obesity; Cathy Newman, C410. How Audiences Shape News Angles; Luke Chilton, News Desk, This Morning11. It''s Not a Disaster if it Doesn''t Make the News - The Critical Nature of News Positioning; Clive Jones, DEC 12. Commercial Imperatives and their Impact on the Values of the Contemporary Documentary and Reality Formats;Peter Hamilton, documentary consultant13. Documentary Making - A Commercial and Public Broadcaster Perspective;Olivia Lichtenstein, documentary maker14. Competition and Cookery in a Global Cultural Format;Karen Ross and Doug Wood of Shine TV15. The Morals of the Money Shot - The Journalistic and Personal Perspective on Creating a Porn Documentary for Channel 4; Martin Daubney, journalist16. Authenticity in Documentary Making;Anya Sitaram, Rockhopper TV17. Documentary and Reality TV as Modern Fairytales - An Odyssey in Character, Content and Commissioning;Jan Euden and Mick Sawyer, Reeljem Productions18. The Interplay between Conflict and Character in Drama and its Possible Influences on the Construction of Reality Programming; Harry Duffin, author and scriptwriter