Tag: Notes

Popular with producers and audiences:

• Cheap / repeatable
• Reusable resources
• Controllable sets
• Self-contained so flexible in that episodes can be shown out of sequence with usually no obvious problems
• Length of program optimised for 3 advert breaks (US)
• Structured and predictable (HARTLEY)
• Easily exportable – transparent formula

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They are created as a dysfunctional family unit

Martin Crane

• Father figure
• Authority invested in him by virtue of his previous role as police officer retired injured now –
• Power now curtailed by his injury and loss of job –
• Vulnerable and dependent on others particularly his son, Frasier and live-in physio-therapist Daphne
• Working class, quite bluff and dismissive of his sons’ professions and ambitions (coffee…!)
• Stereotype of masculinity with his love of beer, steak houses, sport and cheap TV!

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