Audience And Industry: Blog Task

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 1) Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Do you think it has changed since 1963?

The programme's broad appeal attracts audiences of children and families as well as science fiction fans

2) What audience pleasures are offered by Doctor Who - An Unearthly Child? 
Apply Blumer 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: curiosity about space

Personal Relationships: worried about teacher

Diversion (Escapism):time travel

Surveillance (Information / Facts):space

3) What additional Uses and Gratifications would this episode provide to a modern 2020s audience?
The Uses and Gratifications this episode provides is Surveillance as it tells us about TV in 1960s.
4) Thinking of the 3 Vs audience pleasures (Visceral, Vicarious and Voyeuristic pleasures), which of these can be applied to An Unearthly Child?
 Voyeuristic pleasures as the audience is not used to see a space travelling police box and it intrigues them.
5) What kind of online fan culture does Doctor Who have? Give examples.
The Doctor Who fans also known as Whovians have meet up and interviews with their favourite actors in events such as Comicon. The BBC also sells merchandise for the fans


Industries

1) What was the television industry like in 1963? How many channels were there?
There were only 2 channels BBC and ITV

2) How does An Unearthly Child reflect the level of technology in the TV industry in 1963?


3) Why is Doctor Who such an important franchise for the BBC? 
IT brings families and generations together it provides the profit to make more shows and keep providing the fans with what they want.


4) What other programmes/spin-offs are part of the wider Doctor Who franchise?
The BBC has maximised the popularity of the Doctor Who franchise by creating a series of spin-offs that build on the same universe or characters as the original show for example k9

5) Why does the Doctor Who franchise have so much merchandise available? Give examples. 
It  provides the BBC to increase the show's production budget significantly

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