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Cambridge English for the Media   Cambridge University Press 2009     
www.cambridge.org/elt/englishforthemedia
UNIT 4 Television Teacher’s Notes

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Background information and useful web links
Television is of course a huge area, and each genre of TV programmes has its own 
characteristics in terms of 
how programmes are planned and made
. Broadly 
speaking, TV programmes may be divided into 
scripted 
and 
unscripted
 programmes. 
Scripted programmes include dramas, situation comedies, comedy shows, soap 
operas, documentaries, etc. Unscripted programmes include talk shows, game 
shows, reality shows, news, sport and current affairs, etc., and may be either live or 
recorded. Particularly popular shows may be 
syndicated, 
i.e. sold to broadcasters 
around the world, and in fact many broadcasters rely completely on such syndicated 
content (often subtitled or dubbed into another language), with little or no original 
programming of their own.
This unit focuses especially on a key genre of TV programmes,