I will be looking at Globalization, politics and cultural theory, using these various theories it will hopefully lead me to discover how American shows are successful in the United Kingdom.
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Chapter One In this chapter I will be looking at Globalization, politics and cultural theory, using these various theories it will hopefully lead me to discover how American shows are successful in the United Kingdom. American sitcoms have been a constant success in this country with such successful imports such as Friends, Seinfeld and Frasier, but what is the reason for there success in this country, looking at globalization, culture and politics I hope to discover why this is. First I will be looking at what globalization is and how this affects the way different programs from around the world are received, I will look at the differences in culture between not just the UK and America but various other countries that there shows are exported to. What is globalization in television? Since the 1980s there has been a steady rise in the transnational television in terms of that more than ever people own television...


