US and UK TV

4 Novembro 2015, 12:00 • David Alan Prescott

Mentioning of some aspects of the reality of TV today. From the invention of "light entertainment" programmes in the 1960s to today's splintering of televisual reality. Exposition of some linguistic changes mad necessary by this constantly changing reality. Reference to the film Quiz Show (1994) directed by Robert Redford, detailing "An idealistic young lawyer working for a Congressional subcommittee in the late 1950s discovers that TV quiz shows are being fixed. His investigation focuses on two contestants on the show "Twenty-One": Herbert Stempel, a brash working-class Jew from Queens, and Charles Van Doren, the patrician scion of one of America's leading literary families. Based on a true story."

This led to a legal dispute in which it was juridically established that "television is not truth, and does not need to be".
Occasional anecdotal references from my own experiences about the fact that "live" programmes are often filmed some time before.