Car Share - Audience Pleasures

• Transgressive humour - Adult jokes such as 'butchers meat' and 'dogging'

• Predictability - Audience know how a character will react and find it funny

• Snowballing - Jokes get bigger & bigger as the episode progresses

• Exaggeration - Over exaggerated moments, story lines and reactions makes it seem mre interesting.

• Juxtaposition - Among characters to make story line funnier 

• Same setting- Makes audience know whats going to happen, more aware of surroundings which makes them more feel included.

Episode One - The show gets us involved with the show in order for us to learn how the characters act and teaches us their characteristics. Also, their is the snowballing joke about how urine was spilt.

Episode Two - In this episode their is the snowballing joke about 'dogging' and then you meet Ken, Kayleigh's next door neighbour, adding laughter and amusement

Episode Three - In this episode you meet Ray, who works with them as a fish monger. The comedy  comes through the smell of laughter and how they are start making remarks about him in Japanese, until they find out he speaks fluent Japanese. The Transgressive humour of 'fat shit' adds comedy to the audience

 Situation Comedy - Car Share

The show is written by Peter Kay, Sian Golbson, Paul Coleman and Tim Reid, and has won numerous awards, including Best Comedy Show at the 2016 National Television Awards.

Codes and conventions of sit com:

• Family- General characters of sitcoms in order to allow a wider age variety .

• Audience - Relates to audience.

• Realism - Realistic storylines but it exaggerated through humor, adds empathy.

• Timings - Length of programme and how often- on at 9:30 due to transgressive humor.

• Sets - Often have one place that is seen as the main set and used most frequently.

• Stereotypes - Recognisable characteristics, reletable to audience, makes them feel in the moment.

• Simple narrative - Balanced narrative, then loss of stability, then a resolution.

• Cast - Regular characters and uncommon characters to make audience relate- adds humor.

• Canned laughter - Prompts the audience to laugh.

Car Share is aired on BBC1 at 9:30pm on a Friday. The first episode had 6.85million viewers, along with another 2.5million that watched on BBC iPlayer.

The type of audience pleasures you need to write about in the exam include:

• narrative pleasures such as those of narrative resolution, 
• character identification, snowballing narrative, suspense, comedy, and so on
• pleasures of recognition, familiarity and anticipation
• pleasures of difference-within-repetition
• performance unpredictability and spontaneity
• transgressive pleasures
• specific pleasures associated with performers or personalities.

 Walliams & Friend Research

• Who commissioned the programme?

          Shane Allen and Gregor Sharp

• Who produced it?

          BBC

• What audience is it aimed at? Why

It is linked to an older audience due to the transgressive humor that is used as older people would be able to understand and would find it more appealing. Also, the transgreesive humor isn't suitable for younger viewers.

• Why is it on at that time and on that channel? Link to 'type' of comedy and target audience. Is it on after the watershed? Why?

It is on at 9:30pm in order to gain the most amount of viewers, as its target audience are older people and if it was aired earlier then the target audience are more likely to be unavailable. Also it is a time where the older audience would be in bed, so it would be an ideal show to watch at that time. It's on BBC as it is a mainstream channel and has a high standard f comedies, and they are very well known for their comedy. It is on after the watershed due to the certain humor that is used and is inappropriate for younger viewers.

• Which category is Walliams & Friend in the Audience Demographic?

I would say that the show falls under the categories B and C1.
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