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Journal Article
The Quiz Show
2009
Overview
[...]Holmes explains that concerns over on-air lotteries that sought to 'buy the audience' were indeed debated in the US in the early days of the quiz show while the BBC often played down the 'educational appeals and cultural uplift' associated with some US programmes for fear of coming across as elitist and paternalistic (pp. 37, 43). Discussing the control exercised by producers of the aforementioned 1950s series regarding the casting of on-screen 'characters' and the creation of a tense and anxious performance in order to produce a dramatic narrative, Holmes goes on to explain how the tensions between ordinary/extraordinary and authenticity/performance have become even more heightened as reality TV has 'developed an appetite for the type of \"ordinary\" people that can guarantee something close to a semi-professional performance' (p. 118). Yet, while the novelty of appearing on television appears to have been replaced by a savvy attitude about what is expected of participants, Holmes reminds us that there has always been a tendency to choose 'ordinary' people to appear on such programming precisely because they are 'extraordinary' in some way. [...]the 'concept of \"performance\" need not be seen as inauthentic, dishonest or calculated ...
