Published Online: Feb 07, 2017
Page range: 37 - 53
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0137
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© 2009 Göran Bolin, published by De Gruyter Open
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The article discusses the production of live television formats, as they have developed in Europe during the past decade. The analytical examples are taken from entertainment as well as factual television, and from public service as well as commercial contexts. In the article, it is argued that there has been an approximation between the textual features and generic and narrative structures of entertainment and factual live television, and a model is presented that is supposed to account for these narrative patterns.