TY - BOOK AU - Moran,Albert TI - TV formats worldwide: localizing global programs SN - 9781841503066 (pbk.) AV - PN1992.5 .T8 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - Bristol, UK, Chicago, IL PB - Intellect KW - Television programs KW - Television broadcasting KW - Reality television programs KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; 'Descent and modification'; Albert Moran --; Rethinking the local-global nexus through multiple modernities; the case of Arab reality television; Marwan M. Kraidy --; When TV formats are translated; Albert Moran --; Imagining the national; gatekeepers and the adaptation of global franchises in Argentina; Silvio Waisbord and Sonia Jalfin --; Trading in TV entertainment; an analysis; Katja Lantzsch, Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen and Andreas Will --; The rise of the business entertainment format on British television; Raymond Boyle --; Collaborative reproduction of attraction and performance; the case of the reality show Idol; Yngver Njus --; Auditioning for Idol; the audience dimension of format franchising; Doris Baltruschat --; Adapting global television to regional realities; traversing the Middle East experience; Amos Owen Thomas --; How national media systems shape the localization of formats; a transnational case study of The block and Nerds FC in Australia and Denmark; Pia Majbrit Jensen --; Transcultural localization strategies of global TV formats; The office and Stromberg; Edward Larkey --; Tearing up television news across borders; format transfer of news parody shows between Italy and Bulgaria; Gabriele Cosentino, Waddick Doyle and Dimitrina Todorova --; Defining the local; a comparative study of news in Northern Ireland; Sujatha Sosale and Charles Munro --; Independent television production, TV formats and media diversity in China; Michael Keane and Bonnie Liu --; A place in the sun; global seriality and the revival of domestic television drama in Italy; Milly Buonanno --; Idol in a small country; New Zealand idol as the commoditization of cosmopolitan intimacy; Barry King --; From global to glocal; Australianizing the makeover format; Tania Lewis ER -