Doctor Who: Industry and Audience blog tasks

 1) Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Has it changed since 1963?

The target audience for Doctor Who has changed since 1963 because now more people can watch it because it was only on TV and now you can watch Doctor Who on other websites.The target audience for Doctor Who is for teenagers and adults of all age.


2) What audience psychographic groups might particularly enjoy Doctor Who?
The psychographic groups that might enjoy Doctor Who are mainstream and science fiction fans.

3) What audience pleasures are offered by An Unearthly Child? Apply Blumler and Katz's Uses and Gratifications theory to the episode. Make sure you provide specific examples from the episode to support your ideas.

Personal Identity: The need to IDENTIFY personally with characters and situations in order to learn more about themselves.

Personal Relationships: The ability to form attachments to characters and care about them. 

Diversion (Escapism):The need to be ENTERTAINED and to escape from daily life into new worlds and situations.

Surveillance (Information / Facts):The need to be INFORMED and EDUCATED about the world in which we live e.g News.

4) What additional Uses and Gratifications would this episode provide to a modern 2020 audience?
The episode of An Unearthly Child would provide to an modern 2020 audience is that the way women was treated back in the 1960's because back in the 60's the men's were the ones who were the more violent and viscous ones while the women's cowered behind the men whereas now the equality between men and women in films or TV series have now evened out because now women's are the ones who fight as well alongside with the men's.E.g Class.


5) Thinking of the 3 Vs audience pleasures (Visceral, Vicarious and Voyeuristic pleasures), which of these can be applied to An Unearthly Child?
I think Voyeuristic pleasure would be the best one to be applied to An Unearthly Child because of when Barbara and Ian went inside the TARDIS and everything inside the TARDIS was all different to everything outside it. Furthermore when the TARDIS took off into space and landed onto an unknown planet.


Industries

1) What was the television industry like in 1963? How many channels were there?
The television industry in 1963 was terrible and so out of date because there was only two channels (BBC One and ITV) and once they put on a show on either side they wouldn't repeat it so you only got one chance to watch it.

2) Why is Doctor Who such an important franchise for the BBC? 
Doctor Who was such an important franchise for the BBC because during the 1960's there was a space race to the moon between  Russia and America and so Doctor Who was created by the BBC to show what life in space could be like and what species you would find in space if Doctor Who was real.

3) How does Doctor Who meet the BBC's mission statement to 'inform, educate and entertain'?
Doctor Who meets the BBC's mission statement because Doctor Who is all science fiction based which does still give out scientific information about space and the way it shows entertainment is by the action and fights that happens in it. 

4) How is the BBC funded?
The BBC is funded by television licence fee and not by adverts like other channels (ITV).  

5) Who regulates the BBC and what is the watershed?
Ofcom and watershed regulate the BBC which is basically when more adultery shows with more adult humour are allowed to be shown after 9pm because of the language and scenes.

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