Global Television Network

educated readers that television shows are not as mindless or unintelligent as many believe. In “Watching TV Makes You Smarter,” Johnson argues that certain television shows can make a person smarter. Using the Sleeper Curve, he expresses that TV shows have progressed from being something mindless that is turned on in order to escape the reality of the rest of the world to something far more meaningful and intrinsic in its value. Although most would believe that watching television has no…

An Emmy Award recognizes excellence in the television industry. It corresponds to the Grammy Award for music, the Academy Award, or the Oscar for film and the Tony Award for theatre. Winning all four is referred to as the grand slam or “EGOT” coined by actor Philip Michael Thomas who said his acronym originally stood for energy, growth, opportunity and talent. Only 12 people have achieved this. Directly off the Emmy website, The Emmy Awards were conceived in 1948 and its founding fathers…

binge watching their favorite reality television shows, tuning into season premieres, and setting their DVR so they can watch their shows after the reality of real life. It is important to note, these actions are done through a variety of different technological mediums: the television, tablet, cell phone, and laptop. However, on a global scale, the television is used as a primary medium of entertainment. Most popularly in today’s society, reality television has become a worldwide entertainment…

violence, and explicit content can improve our learning and cognitive process, but it doesn’t explain the change of behavior that might affect us if we are expose to such programs. For example, Johnson illustrates an entry in his article that “the fox network showed an episode its hit drama 24…” (Johnson,277) where “a terrorist kill his child for not fully support the jihadist cause…, and the secretary of defense authorizes the torture of his son to uncover evidence of a terrorist plot.”…

Binge watching TV shows is what I do best in my free time and busy time. I would rater go to my room and watch Netflix on my TV in bed rather than talking to my family or hanging out with friends. This had made my social life go down, it has allowed me to become lazy, and it has even effected my health. I realized, I had an obsession to binge watching when I realized that I started ignoring my family, due to wanting to watch my new favorite TV show. I would watch three episodes in one sitting…

Previous research has found that television may negatively affect the body image of young women. Tiggerman and Pickering (1996) found that these effects did not just come from the amount of television viewed, but they could also come from the appearance-focused shows. Studies have shown that body dissatisfaction can be seen in girls as young as the age six years (Dohnt & Tiggemann, 2006; Tiggemann & Wilson-Barrett, 1998). This is what led researchers to come to the conclusion that the amount of…

Television has been one of the biggest phenomenon since the invention of radio. As many years has progressed, television has been a vital option for entertainment throughout many homes across the world. Not only does it serves ties to entertainment but it also serve ties to ideologies practiced on screen to such audiences. It gives its audiences belief that there are thing that can be perpetuated into existence. For example, such sitcoms portray family values that are seen moral to viewers. So…

Without Proper Representation: A Look Into the Misinterpretation of Age and Diversity In Television Is there a limit on how old you can be to act as a certain age? There’s an ever-increasing gap between the age of the actors/actresses that play teenage roles in television and it’s actually a problem we need to address. A big topic in today’s world is how teenagers view themselves, their bodies, and how television sets these unrealistic notions about what a fourteen year old may look like. The…

Gilmore Girls: A Fan Culture Fan cultures offer more engagement and interaction with a particular narrative. People within the fan cultures of television shows often participate in gatherings such as “watch party” rituals as well as acts of ostension that allow them to interact more deeply with the narrative. Fan culture members often have collections of memorabilia, participate in fan conventions, participate in discussions about their feelings involving the particular thing they are a fan of,…

globally competitive centre for production, Canada’s film and television production industry has boomed over the last decade: but with success comes repercussions. The encouragement of foreign location shooting in the Canadian film and television production industry has caused barriers for Canadian producers and creators to carry out domestic productions, further hindering the development of Canada’s media identity in film and television sectors as a result. The appealing tax incentive for…