4. (b) Discuss in detail how one programme offers audience pleasures. Give examples from the programme. [15]

Bad Education is a sitcom comedy which is set in the same location in the school and will finish the program at the school. It also have characters that linger throughout the series without new characters being introduced so that it creates a strong relationship with the audience, and it gets the audience to know them better. Furthermore, there is a starting scene at the beginning of each episode so that the audience has a idea of what the episode will show.

This program offers audience pleasures such as narrative resolution as it starts and ends at the same place, there is rapport between the audience and the characters; some students learn that Mr Wickers is an 'idiot' and they disrespect him. there is verbal comedy such as 'sexual' innuendo as they tell jokes that relate to sex.

After, it also uses narrative pleasures refer to the audience enjoying how the story line is constructed. In situation comedy, the plot starts and ends in exactly the same place (narrative resolution). What happens in between is usually a snowballing narrative of one problem added onto another problem, This is usually caused by the stupid decisions of the character and the audience laugh as they make each poor choice. Some characters make stupid decisions; e.g Mr Wickers makes bad decisions when he talks to his crush-Miss Gulliver.

Character identification is how the audience knows the characters well and can predict how they will behave. Audiences feel they can relate the the characters and they become well loved because of these predictable character traits. Mr Wickers is seen as the worse teacher ever but he is surrounded by some of the weirdest teachers who by comparison make him seem far better than any alternative. His students act immature even though they are young adults. they are classed as bad students as they backchat to the teacher, showing no manners whatsoever.

Pleasure of recognition means audiences enjoy the anticipation of what a character will say next. Certain characters have catchphrases or typical behaviors that the audience expect to see. This makes them predictable and adds to them being well-loved by audiences who feel like they know the character well. The action happens in the same setting, which the audience are familiar with. In bad education, some students such as 'Ren Dog' will make accusations that will downgrade the teacher(Mr Wickers) which makes the program funny because its humorous.

Pleasures of difference-within-repetition means that the audience can easily recognize this as a situation comedy but the show plays with the repetition of the same narrative structure. Each episode sees the characters facing alternative plots and comedy through the script but the same sort of events happen. In bad education, the setting is always in the school and it contains toilet humor. The audience will know the situation because it hints what will happen next.

Transgressive pleasures are the comedy elements which go beyond the boundaries and into offensive or rude topics. They are based on taboo and are designed to offend the audience into laughing because they feel uncomfortable. In Bad education, They use transgressive pleasures such as racism, 'toilet words' and stereotyping. The words they use is "pooing". They called a colored man "Winston" so it shows there is a stereotype and saying that all colored people are called "Winston".

Familiarity is a way to interact the audience so that they get to know the characters more by making the character use specific phrases or commonly used words. for example, Mr Wickers is always the same by acting his silly self. He also makes unintelligent remarks which is humorous so that the audience have a rapport with the character.

Research on sceduling question(4a)

Bad Education

BBC 3 is the channel that commissioned Bad Education.
It is directed by Christine Gernon. 
Created and written by Jack Whitehall, who is also the main character of the series.
The Producer is Pippa Brown and the Executive Producer is Ben Cavey.
The sitcom is aimed at audiences between the ages of 15 and 25.
 It is suitable for young adults or older teenagers as the humor suits them more. Also the setting is set in a school which relates to younger audience as they might be attending to schools too.
The time that BBC run the program is 10pm every Wednesday. However, as the show doesn't run no more, it runs repeats at 3pm through the week.  
It airs at 10pm because it contains violence, vulgar language and sexual humor which is not suitable for younger audiences. It starts late so that there are less younger people viewing the program.
They are on after the watershed because they might be repeats of it and so they will be on earlier times where the young people will be at school so they cannot watch them.
BBC3's audience demographic are:

1. The channel is disciplined in its focus on young audiences and 16-34 year-olds are its centre of gravity: people who are young in spirit and mindset.
2. BBC Three is ‘never afraid to try new things’ and will continue to innovate with breakthrough Comedy, stand-out Entertainment, brave Documentary and intelligent Factual Formats. Our content needs to have potential to innovate across platforms.
3. BBC Three should provide an environment for the development of new ideas and talent and for existing talent to take risks, becoming a genuine laboratory for BBC One and BBC Two. 

Friday Night Dinner

Channel 4(E4) is the channel that commissioned Friday Night Dinner.

It is directed by Steve Bendelack.

Created and written by Robert Cooper, who is also a British comedy producer, writer, actor, and author, best known as co-creator of the mock BBC documentary 'Look around you'.

The Producer is also Robert Cooper and the executive producer is Nira Park.

The program is aimed at people who are aged 15-30 because of its humor. It contains adult humor which will relate to adults.

The times that it starts is on every Friday at 8pm.

It airs at 8pm as it contains some adult humor in which is not suitable for some young people but can be available for 15 years old and over. 
It is near the watershed so that younger people will not be able to watch as parents won't let them.
E4's audience demographics are:
They target this demographic because they broadcast good quality drama, comedy, features and having diverse entertainment formats making E4 and E4 +1's both have a very strong impact on 16-34's. This demographic is mindful, sociable, connected, heavy internet users, they love going out and tend to use advertising as one of their many information sources.

Comparison

The watershed between the two programmes differ because in Bad education, the watershed is at 10pm and in Friday Night Dinner, the watershed is at 8pm. this shows that Bad education is more obscene than Friday Night Dinner because It contains more explicit language and has more innuendo's which is suitable for people who suits their type of humor such as young adults aged 16-25. The watershed for Friday Night Dinner is 8pm because it has innuendo's and adult humor but can be suitable for younger audiences aged 15-20. It is earlier because the innuendo's is not as worse as the other program. 

Bad education is aired on BBC 3 because the channels demographics are the channel is disciplined in its focus on young audiences and 16-34 year-olds are its centre of gravity: people who are young in spirit and mindset. BBC Three is ‘never afraid to try new things’ and will continue to innovate with breakthrough Comedy, stand-out Entertainment, brave Documentary and intelligent Factual Formats. Our content needs to have potential to innovate across platforms. This shows that the program is pushing the limits more as BBC 3 contains more experimental programs and it also has more freedom.