No Offence
No Offence is a British television police procedural drama on Channel 4, created by Paul Abbott. It follows a team of detectives from Friday Street police station, a division of the Manchester Metropolitan Police.
No Offence provides a wide range of representational areas to explore; gender, place, class, ethnicity, race etc.Negative and positive use – or subversion – of stereotypes, particularly around the representation of women and the police.Representation of issues – series 1 deals with the disappearance and murder of children with Down’s Syndrome and raises questions about attitudes to and treatment of people with disabilities.
The production, distribution and circulation of No Offence shows how audiences can be reached, both on a national and global scale, through different media technologies and platforms, moving from the national to transnational through broadcast and digital technologies
No Offence was broadcast on Channel 4, can still be accessed on All4, it was also broadcast in France.
The Killing
The Killing is a Danish police drama television series created by Søren Sveistrup. It was first broadcast on the Danish national television channel DR1 on 7 January 2007, and has since been transmitted in many other countries worldwide.
The Killing provides a range of representational areas to explore, including gender roles, family structures and the political class. It can be argued that these are innovative representations which have been influential in the development of the genre. Part of The Killing’s original appeal was in its representation of Danish culture to a UK audience.
The Killing was the catalyst for the wider distribution of foreign language crime programming on UK television, its unexpected success influencing BBC4’s scheduling but also that of other UK channels. The Killing was produced the Danish national public service broadcaster DR, providing the opportunity to study PSB in a different national context.
To what extent do television producers attempt to target audiences national and global audiences through subject matter and distribution?
subject matter. cultural links such as feminism and the representation of down syndrome in no offence
Curran and Seaton mention good points to consider with how a media product is distributed, especially in tv. such as the time its brand casted can all factor in for what audiences the network is aiming for subject matter. cultural links such as feminism and the representation of down syndrome in no offence
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No Offence launched with 2.5 million viewers, Channel 4’s biggest midweek drama launch for more than three years. In France, the first episode of No Offence aired on 29 February 2016 on France 2 and was watched by 5.46 million viewers, 20.4% of the TV audience.
horizontal intergration-DR1 (DR Et) is the flagship television channel of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR). It became Denmark’s first television station when it began broadcasting in 1951 – at first only for an hour a day three times a week. owned by DR (formerly Danmarks Radio),officially the Danish Broadcasting Corporation in English, is a Danish public-service radio and televisionbroadcasting company.
the killing was produced by channel 4 owned by Channel Four Television Corporation which then is owned by the UK Government Investments
media concentration/convertgients-(Concentration of media ownership (also known as media consolidation or media convergence) is a process whereby progressively fewer individuals or organizations control increasing shares of the mass media.)