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BBC Television Comedy Since the 2000s: Corporate Innovation and Changing National Identity

by Alex Symons
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781041296645
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
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  • Pages: 122
  • Original Price: GBP 67.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 386 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Media Studies

This book examines how BBC Television's embrace of new executive voices, digital technology, and independent production companies in the early 2000s gave rise to a new era of innovation in comedy, aesthetically and culturally.

Drawing on exclusive interviews with key industry figures, this book traces these corporate innovations, with a focus on the shift from traditional analogue pathways to digital platforms. The author explores how BBC Three's launch, alongside iPlayer streaming and YouTube integration, enabled a new generation of creators to develop aesthetically experimental series that expressed diverse British identities for younger audiences. Demonstrating how new corporate thinking and digital platforms democratized comedy creation, moving beyond establishment gatekeepers to showcase working-class, immigrant, and minority voices, this comprehensive analysis reveals how these changes made BBC comedy more inclusive and representative of contemporary British society while maintaining its public service mission.

This book will interest researchers and students in media and cultural studies, including television, digital media, comedy, celebrity, creative industries, and issues of identity and immigration.

Alex Symons is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at LIM College in New York City, USA. He earned his PhD from the University of Nottingham and is the author of the monographs Women Comedians in the Digital Age (2023) and Mel Brooks in the Cultural Industries (2012), as well as numerous chapters in edited collections and articles in journals, including the Journal of Popular Film and Television, the Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies, and Celebrity Studies. He is also an editorial board member for the Journal of Popular Culture.

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