Audience task: Antiques Roadshow..

Antiques Roadshow Audience Task..

This programme 'Antiques Roadshow' is appealing to an older target audience, probably those over 60 years old. This programme is intended to appeal to an older target audience, because the types of antiques and history involved in this programme is appealing to an older audience as its a gentle, slow programme that's easy to understand and older people are more likely to be these type of collectors and therefore are more inclined to watch the TV show.

This programme is mediated and constructed into little clips of the most interesting antiques and the ones that are disappointing. Its constructed to show the best and worst clips of the people that go on the show, to keep the programme interesting and short in parts to show a few people on each episode. The programme is very formal and is very factual and full of history and information, keeping it appealing to those older viewers of the audience.

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.