P1: Audience pleasures

Peaky Blinders

Release - 12 September 2013
Seasons - 5
Episode length - 55 - 59 minutes
Production company - BBC Studios
                                  - Caryn Mandabach Productions
                                  - Tiger Aspect Productions
                                  - Screen Yorkshire
Broadcaster - BBC Two (Series 1 - 4)
                      - BBC One  (Series 5)      
Budget - Between £1 million and £1.5 Million

Audience Pleasures:

- Audience Relationships
  - Relationships between family
  - Relationships between crime and law
  - Relationships between North and South
  - Relationships between working class and government/state

- Personal Identity
  - People will identify with working class
  - People will identify with strong female characters
  - People will identify with dominant aggressive males

- Diversion
  - People will be able to divert away from there everyday lives through peaky blinders
  - Violent nature that people may not be used to
  - Deep character development, to allow the audience to feel apart of the plot

-Surveillance
 - Peaky Blinders is a transgressive drama that allows others to gain an insight into a world different       to their own
 - Peaky Blinders offers surveillence as people may never of had an insight into violence and gang         culture


Breaking Bad

Release - 20th January 2008
Seasons - 5
Episode Length - Between 43 - 59 Minutes
Production Company - High Bridge Entertainment
                                 - Gran Via Productions
                                 - Sony Pictures Television
Distributor - Sony Pictures Television
Budget - £2.3 Million

Audience Pleasures:

- Audience Relationships
  - Relationships between family
  - Relationships between crime and law
  - Relationships between family and drugs
  - Relationships between money , family and drugs
  - Relationships between drugs and young romance

- Personal Identity
  - People will identify with financial struggle
  - People will identify with illness and what they may be going through or have been through.
  - People will identify with maybe a surprise financial gain, that they don't know how to deal with

- Diversion
 - Diversion factors such as heavy drug use and production are prominent in the series.
 - Diversion factor such as violence to help divert the audience attention from their everyday life.
 - Immersive plot that attracts viewers away from normal life

-Surveillance
 - Transgressive plot which gives an insight into the drug culture which normal everyday working           class people may not have ever experienced.
 - Gives an insight into violence and gang culture
 - Provides an insight into a 'undercover' world of crime and drugs


Game Of Thrones

Release - 17 April 2011
Seasons - 8 Seasons
Episode Length - Average length of 68 minutes
Production Companies - Home Box Office (HBO)
                                        - Television 360
                                        - Grok! Studio
                                        - Generator Entertainment
                                        - Bighead Littlehead
Distributor - Warner Bros. Televison
Budget - $15 Million

Audience Pleasures: 

- Audience Relationships
 - Relationships between family
 - Relationships between north and south
 - Relationships between family and feud

- Personal Identity
 - People will identify with string female leads and actors
 - People will identify with conflict within their countries (North vs South)
 - People will identify with male dominated world

- Diversion
 - Diversion is shown through intense violence
 - Diversion is shown through a fantasy world and characters
 - Diversion is shown through an immersive plot which drags viewers away from their everyday life

- Surveillance
 - Surveillance is shown in GoT through a class system
 - Surveillance is shown through living in a fantasy world compared to a normal world