Television programming

Despite its flaws, CBS’s television show Big Brother had me hooked instantly when I first found it. I like the strategic gameplay that appears on the show. I like having someone to root for and someone to root against. The personalities that appear on the show are fun and exciting. Watching how people live for three months while simultaneously evicting people each week intrigues me. Through an online search, I found a fan run Big Brother simulation game hosted online. Played primarily on…

The Effects of The Simpsons Sitcom on Humanity The Simpsons sitcom has been the longest running leading animated series with over twenty-seven seasons in 2015 and counting. Not only does The Simpsons have just about fifteen million fans in America, but the sitcom is also viewed by nearly sixty million people across the globe. Yet, The Simpsons did not start out with popularity and acceptance. With the first airing of The Simpsons in 1989 by the FOX network, the show was immediately criticized…

If you have ever taken a road trip or been stuck at the office during a long day chances are there is music playing. Music and news reporting can keep the mind awake and alert. What most people hate are commercials and ads, they just want to listen to music and other variety of talk shows through radio, computer, and even smartphones and tablets. Sirius Satellite Radio has the services to provide consumers with what they want and so much more. Sirius Satellite Radio is one of the largest radio…

Every Saturday morning I get a jolt of excitement in anticipation of the forty-five minutes of wonder I know are soon to delight my senses, forty-five minutes of adventure, fear, and the devilish world of Steven Moffat. Doctor Who is my all time favorite TV show, a show that follows the exploits of the time travelling Doctor and his intrepid companions across the universe. The cleverest thing about this show is, of course, the time travelling part, for it acts as an easy method for the writers…

Although entertainment media creates profit for industry, John Cole’s political cartoon claims that these media outlets exploit starvation, and dehumanization as a profitable venture, when in reality these cruelties happen every day to the peoples of underdeveloped countries. Central to the political cartoon is the depiction of the refugee’s emaciation. When first observing Cole’s cartoon, readers see a tarnished looking man reading a newspaper about the popular YA film, the Hunger Games.…

Have you ever wondered if there is a difference between sitcoms back then and now? This paper is going to compare and contrast the differences between an episode of Full House and an episode of the Modern Family. We are able to spot notable differences and similarities by comparing the characters, plot, and setting for both of these sitcoms. In both, Modern Family and Full House, there are many characters we can compare. As seen in Modern Family, Manny steals a necklace on “accident” but…

eccentricity?" (Maciac) Today's television bolsters the idea that individuals who are viewed as "smart" are lesser class citizens. Children's shows on Disney Channel portray an inaccurate view of intellectuals to viewers causing school children to look down on being intelligent and thus not working in school. These shows, such as Suite Life on Deck, Wizards of Waverly Place, Jesse, and Bunk'd all portray intellectuals in a negative light. Popular Disney television shows aimed at children…

reads the newspaper anymore. Today, the world gets their news from television news programs and social media. News channels are also delivering news information very differently now. For many critics, television news is as much about entertainment as it is about communicating information. According to Robert Stam’s article “Television News and Its Spectator,” and Jeffrey Jones’s article “Fox and Friends: Political Talk”, television news offers many different types of pleasures and entertainment…

The hit television show The Jeffersons was an outstanding spinoff from the series All in the Family. The Jeffersons features George and Louise Jefferson a newly rich African American family living in Manhattan. The television show was based off the family dry cleaning business, Jeffersons Cleaners which eventually grew into a small chain business. The success from the family business allowed George, Louise and their son Lionel to move to a “deluxe apartment in the sky”. The television series The…

Television shows in today’s world are becoming increasingly more inappropriate, both sexually and violently, especially shows aired on networks known for embracing this inappropriateness. Many television shows, however, are becoming less scripted and rawer in their context. The growing interest in stand-up comedy is revolutionizing comedic networks such as Comedy Central, allowing them to spend less time drafting potential pilots and simply airing pre-recorded live comedy shows to help fill up…