Doctor Who: Audience and Industry

 Doctor Who: Audience and Industry

Audience


1) Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Do you think it has changed since 1963?
Teenagers and young adults, they are starting to target more of a younger audience.

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.

INFORMATION/SURVEILLANCE: Doctor Who offers its audience an education about space travel,                                                                science and history, his theories he was trying to explain to Ian

PERSONAL IDENTITY: Teenagers relate to Susan

DIVERSION/ENTERTAINMENT:  Science Fiction is a classic genre for escapism, links to space race

PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS: Audience wants too follow Susan's journey 
Personal Identity:


3) What additional Uses and Gratifications would this episode provide to a modern 2020s                  audience?
Educational for a modern audience on what TV was like in the 1960s.

4) Thinking of the 3 Vs audience pleasures (Visceral, Vicarious and Voyeuristic pleasures), which      of these can be applied to An Unearthly Child?
Visceral: finding the TARDIS
Vicarious: time or space travel
Voyeuristic: inside of TARDIS

5) What kind of online fan culture does Doctor Who have? Give examples.
The ‘Whoniverse’, made up of podcasts, spin-offs

Industries


1) What was the television industry like in 1963? How many channels were there?
There were only two TV channels in the UK in 1963: BBC and ITV. 

2) How does An Unearthly Child reflect the level of technology in the TV industry in 1963?
Videotape had only been in use for seven years when An Unearthly Child was made. It allowed the BBC to create the space and time travel effects we can see in the episode which were considered amazing at the time.

3) Why is Doctor Who such an important franchise for the BBC? 
Doctor Who is one of the most iconic franchises that the BBC has. It has been shown all over the world through BBC Worldwide and generates huge income for the BBC.

4) What other programmes/spin-offs are part of the wider Doctor Who franchise?
K9
Sarah Jane Adventures
Torchwood
Class

5) Why does the Doctor Who franchise have so much merchandise available? Give examples. 
To raise the income of the show, as the target audience: whovians, will want to buy the merch, which is things such as t-shirts, mugs, and sometimes objects from the show.

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