STUDIO PRODUCTION: CELEBRITY JUICE (RESEARCH)

Celebrity Juice is a comedy panel show which consists of mainstream celebrities. The show was originally going to be a panel show where celebrities discuss that weeks news. However, after the popularity of the show's silly rounds and celebrities getting to be more relaxed and different to how they'd be in the medias eye. Each week it is now the two teams going head to head to win the most points.

The show is produced by a production company called 'Talkback' but is broadcasted on ITV2. The show has been running since 2008 and continues to be popular due to the wacky comical challenges, adult humour and the alter ego of Leigh Francis, Keith Lemon who really brings out the humour more with his flirting with team captain Holly Willoughby and bullying of other team captain Fearne Cotton. The show has had all sorts of different celebrities on the panel show from A list actors, to TV Actors, to professional singers and dancers, to full bands and presenters. The shows offers a variety of different guests, both from and outside the UK. Each week being different and never knowing what the challenges are going to be on the show.

Celebrity Juice works so well because of it's contributors. With them being mainstream celebrities who have a huge following and a wide audience, it's the perfect attraction and why the comedy works so well. It lets the audience see the celebrities in a different light to how they're seen in their normal spot lights in the media, whether that's as singers, actors, presenters, chiefs, etc.

Sadly, I can't see something like this working for our Studio Production. A chat show could work, it's also been done at the studios in a past Studio Production, but not with celebrities as we don't have the budget to get big names to be contributors. However, if we can get people who're really interesting it could help make a chat show interesting for Studio Production.

STUDIO PRODUCTION: TAKE ME OUT (RESEARCH)

Take Me Out is a dating game show broadcasted on ITV. The show is Presented by comedian Paddy McGuinness and has been airing since 2010.

Take Me Out involves 30 single women coming on the show to potentially find a date. The 30 women stand behind podiums, with their names on them, and then Paddy introduces the 'Single Man' who comes down a lift in the centre of the set, known as the 'Love Lift'. This is the first of the 5 rounds of the show. Take Me Out is a very male, heterosexual show. What I mean by this is that it's always a man, playing to win a date with a woman. It's never a man playing to win a date with a man, woman playing to win a date with a woman or someone who is bisexual playing to win a date with either a man or a woman. The show has been like this since it first aired in 2010. However, when the show was first aired it was not legal for gay marriage as this came about back in 2014.

However, the show is very popular and has been recommissioned for 10 series and has another series about to be aired. With the girls and boys throwing flirty comments and jokes around and Paddy giving funny lines like 'No Likey, No lighty' meaning if the girls don't like the boy they see, they turn their lights off. The show is consisted of 5 rounds.

STUDIO PRODUCTION: BRIEFING

With our next Unit being 'Studio Production' we've been given a short briefing on the unit.

Our brief is that, in pairs, we have to develop and pitch an idea for a 30 minute Studio Production which can be split into two parts, so 15 minutes each. I have paired up with Simon Lawrence.
We have been given the list of requirements which are needed for the pitch. We've also been informed to stay away from Game Shows if possible as for the last few years that has been the chosen genre of Studio Production for the course. We've been encouraged to go with something different that will give us a real challenge.

At the moment, I'm considering a band/talent show. Our tutor told me something like that has been done in the past but it is a good genre to go with and a very challenging one in the sense of sound and camera work.