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This critical review will focus on the Moran article, 'The Pie and the Crust' which puts under consideration the context of widespread television program formatting.
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This critical review will focus on the Moran article, 'The Pie and the Crust' which puts under consideration the context of widespread television program formatting. Hence, it would be valuable at first then to define formatting in the television sense and state that a format is simply a plan for the organization and arrangement of a specified production. This plan or format does not have to be followed rigidly, although the basic concept is usually taken and modified to suit cultural requirements. Moran sees format as "...a loose and expanding set of program possibilities" which enforces the notion that formatting is not just a simple process of licensing a format and screening the program. Moran's main arguments seem to fall under four main categories; economical, cultural, social and political. That is to suggest that television formatting relates to the four categories in significant ways, economically formatting occurs due to simple financing...
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