Doctor Who: Audience and Industries blog tasks

 Audience and Industry: blog tasks:

Audience

1) Who is the target audience for Doctor Who? Has it changed since 1963?

2) What audience pleasures are offered by Doctor Who - An Unearthly Child? Apply Blumler 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:

Personal Relationships:

Diversion (Escapism):

Surveillance (Information / Facts):

3) What additional Uses and Gratifications would this episode provide to a modern 2020 audience?

entertainment and diversion and partially information.

4) Thinking of the 3 Vs audience pleasures (Visceral, Vicarious and Voyeuristic pleasures), which of these can be applied to An Unearthly Child?

Voyeuristic as it can be their escape from reality

5) What kind of online fan culture does Doctor Who have? Give examples.
Fandom Name is WHOVIANS
Industries

1) What was the television industry like in 1963? How many channels were there?

2 bbc and itv

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

They used videotapes then

3) Why is Doctor Who such an important franchise for the BBC? 

It was one of the biggest franchises

4) What other programmes/spin-offs are part of the wider Doctor Who franchise?

5) Why does the Doctor Who franchise have so much merchandise available? Give examples. 

Sarah Jane adventures and K9