Lee, DJ orcid.org/0000-0002-9186-2401 and Corner, J (2017) After Dark: Channel 4’s innovation in television talk. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 14 (4). pp. 445-463. ISSN 1743-4521
Abstract
This paper explores the significance of the late night British discussion programme After Dark (Channel 4, 1987-1997) in terms of the production contexts of the time and its distinctive form and structure as television. After Dark emerged during a period of significant transition in the political economy of British broadcasting, with a major factors being the creation of Channel 4. As part of its extension of the possibilities of television as a cultural form, Channel 4 attempted to break the prevailing temporal frame of television output and this was most evident in the open-ended nature of After Dark’s transmission, with the programme running into the early hours of the morning with no fixed end-point. Critical attention to it serves among other things to place in sharper perspective the variety of alignments possible between the discourses television produces and those in play more broadly across the different spaces of the political and social. In particular, it highlights the distinctive forms of speech and deliberation (and therefore the distinctive modes of viewing and listening) informing the programme’s design.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017, Edinburgh University Press. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Edinburgh University Press in Journal of British Cinema and Television. The Version of Record is available online at: http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/jbctv.2017.0388 |
Keywords: | talk television; Channel 4; television production; innovation; political debate |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 28 Oct 2016 10:09 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jan 2018 08:52 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.3366/jbctv.2017.0388 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:106636 |