TV Shows in France

Résumé du document

The term ?serial' has achieved a different meaning in today's world. It is now being used as a base issued from the novels which were written in the 19th century by Flaubert and Dickens. Flaubert and Dickens published their novels chapter by chapter in newspapers. The development of the plot in their situations sometimes took years thus, dangling their readers. The TV shows are presently the logical evolution of the novels of that time. The TV shows has now acquired an indispensable luxury item position for the television viewers of the 21st century. The advantages of TV shows are tremendous ranging from excellent means of developing loyalty. Further, channels do not hesitate anymore to broadcast series at any part of the day or night. Today, our small screens enjoy a large number of series as they approach and target any hot subject. Serials, sitcoms, any concept is good to accept it as long as the public consider the case trendy enough and sufficient for leisure. Channels are on the lookout for the last series. It even happens that channels conceive or finance their own series such as camera cafe for M6 and Julie Lescaut for TF1.

Extraits

[...] Only the 9 first episodes of the season 4 have been shot. The doctors of Grey's Anatomy know the same problem: they may have to stop the shooting in the middle of the season.For the very famous TV show 24, the situation is even worst: since the fox didn't have all of 24 episodes of the 7th season, it has been decided to cancel its diffusion, till the writers make available the end of the season. Fortunately, some shows have enough to continue the broadcasting, like Nip/Tuck or Lost. [...]

[...] Suddenly, they become identified. There's nothing more to do than to construct good intrigues and strong figures. And for this, we can trust the scriptwriters! Television channels definitely understood it and apply the treatment as soon as they need audience, that is to say every time! Cinema reported missing on the TV While the TV series burst the screen, the cinema is breathless.By giving up the Sunday evening movie at the benefit of a series, TF1 created a real scandal. [...]

[...] To keep audience and advertising incomes, the giants of the industry have to go to the most effective. This phenomenon was observed for a long time in the United States, where the cable channels are everywhere. The expertise in 52 minutes In two times 52 minutes, the size of these American shows, channels can multiply the pages of advertising. As a result, it is more profitable. And the scenarios go up to the purpose: they do not release the television viewers one second. [...]

[...] The spying series also developed, in correlation with the cold war. The creativity of the authors produces then hybrid series: the western Mysteries, which mixes fantasy, spying, science fiction and western, or "very special agents", which involves futuristic science fiction and espionage.The series evolved at the same time as the culture. In some years, the originality of scenarii and the quality of the writing made a forward considerable jump. Exit the family dramas of type Dallas. The public became more requiring.Fictional characters became more realistic, filled with defects, similar to the common run of people, what makes them more attractive.In Desperate Housewives, we find a representation of the American society which plays on its snapshots. [...]

[...] Contrary to popular beliefs, the budgets of the American TV series did not explode. An episode cost 1.5 millions 10 or 15 years ago, and 2 millions today. But naturally, the big productions as CSI can cost up to 4 millions an episode.The series are followed by an increasing number of television viewers: indeed, the series CSI drains approximately 30 million spectators in every episode in the United States.Attracted by these record audiences and by the quality of these series, more and more famous actors of the big screen agree to appear in secondary roles (Michelle Rodriguez and Dominic Monaghan in Lost, the missing persons, Glenn Close, then Forest Whitaker in The Shield). [...]