Audience task: The Only Way Is Essex..

Audience task: The Only Way Is Essex 

The intended audience for the programme The Only Way Is Essex (Towie), is mainly teenagers and adults in there early 20's. This age range of audience is due to the language they use, older viewers might not find this as appealing to watch and also, the types of things these people do, the holidays, the arguments, teenagers are more likely to find amusing and relate to them.The use of gratifications this programme meets is entertainment, this programme is for entertainment purposes, its a reality TV programme which gives you an incite into these peoples lives, and due to it not being a very serious show, the audience find it entertaining and like certain characters in it.

The programme is constructed by editing the best bits of what they have filmed, the programme is cleverly constructed and is only full of the interesting parts of the people lives, such as the arguments, parties and holidays that they go on. These edited clips are mediated also, because they make you like certain people in the programme more than others, the arguments are shown in a way and edited that you see one side, mediated to make you like one person more and think of the other as a bad guy.