Title: Copycat television : globalisation, program formats, and cultural identity /
Authors: Moran, Albert.
Publisher: University of Luton Press,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Television programs Europe.; Television programs Australia.
Abstract: This book has a double purpose. First, it describes the phenomenon of television program formats or ideas and their national adaptation in sufficient detail for the reader to grasp what is a central dynamic of the contemporary global television scene. Second, it explores the wider cultural meaning of the practice of cross-border format adaptation and the necessary modifications that must be made to theories of global culture.
Contents: Theoretical bearings -- pt. 1. The international format trade. The pie and the crust: television program formats ; The international format market: players and trade ; English language Grundy ; Grundy world wide -- pt. 2. Program adaptations and cultural identity. Contests of knowledge and beauty: game shows, Sale of the Century and Man O Man ; WIP shows: Prisoner Cell Block H, Dangerous Women and Vrouwenvleugel ; A tale of two cities: Sons and Daughters, and Verbotene Liebe ; Try, try and try again: The Restless Years, Goede Tijden Slechte Tijden and Gute Zeiten Schlechte Zeiten.