Tools
ToolsD'Arcy, Geraint (2026) In front of a live studio audience: production design and liveness in celebrity chat shows. Critical Studies in Television. ISSN 1749-6020
Preview |
PDF (d-arcy-2026-in-front-of-a-live-studio-audience-production-design-and-liveness-in-celebrity-chat-shows)
- Published Version
Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial. Download (1MB) | Preview |
Abstract
This paper analyses the spatial and aesthetic use of a live studio audience as an element of design in celebrity chat shows. It establishes an aesthetic framework of un-scripted television formats using Richard Levin’s 1961 book Television by Design, identifying abstraction and stylisation as fundamental to shaping the audience and performance spaces of contemporary chat show formats. With close analysis of Wogan (1983-1991) and The Graham Norton Show (2007-2026), the categories of space, the inclusion of a studio audience, their performative functions, and their live aesthetics are established as an integral element to the design of the show format in an era of fragmented, on-demand content.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2026. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | set design,space,theatricality,cultural studies,communication ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3316 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Media, Language and Communication Studies |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Comics Studies Research Group Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Media Equality |
| Related URLs: | |
| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 11 May 2026 14:17 |
| Last Modified: | 14 May 2026 15:06 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/102949 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/17496020261449050 |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |