Television Fandom in the Age of Narrowcasting: The Politics of Proximity in Regional Scripted Reality Dramas The Only Way Is Essex and Made in Chelsea
Television Fandom in the Age of Narrowcasting: The Politics of Proximity in Regional Scripted Reality Dramas The Only Way Is Essex and Made in Chelsea
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窄播时代的电视迷：地区脚本现实剧中的邻近政治唯一的出路是埃塞克斯和切尔西制造
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10.1057/9781137350374_3
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2015
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J. Hobbs
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C. Sandvoss;Kelly Youngs;J. Hobbs
从伦敦东部城市边缘的埃塞克斯郡的拉夫顿，到富裕的切尔西中心，再到首都中心西南的中央和地区线，只需一个小时，经过25站。然而，将这两个位于大伦敦广阔地区的社区联系在一起的不仅仅是痛苦的长途地铁：它们都成为了与地区脚本真人秀（RSRD）类型相关的地点，自2010年MTV在洛杉矶的《the Hills》（2006-2010）取得成功和引进之后，这种类型的真人秀在英国越来越受欢迎。Loughton，以及邻近的Buckhurst Hill和Brentwood，是2010年10月首播的ITV2电视剧《the Only Way Is Essex》（TOWIE）的取景地。肯辛顿和切尔西的皇家自治市，以及伦敦市中心的其他地方，是E4的切尔西制造（MiC）的所在地，在2011年5月，在TOWIE最初的成功之后，首次出现在英国的屏幕上。这两部电视剧，与他们的Spiritus公司，MTV的《真实世界》和《希尔斯》，以及许多真人秀电视的传统一样，都是一种混合类型的一部分，与电视连续剧的纪录片传统，特别是青少年和高中连续剧，以及肥皂剧和肥皂剧一样。这些节目的演员阵容主要是20多岁的年轻人，偶尔会加入他们的家庭成员，比如父母、祖父母、兄弟姐妹或堂兄弟姐妹。
It takes exactly one hour — and 25 stops — to travel from the edges of London’s eastern urban sprawl in Loughton, Essex, to the heart of affluent Chelsea to the south west of the capital’s centre on the Central and District lines. What connects these two neighbourhoods in the vast reaches of Greater London, however, is more than a painfully long tube ride: they have both become locations associated with the genre of regional scripted reality drama (RSRD) that has enjoyed growing popularity in the UK since 2010 in the wake of the success and import of MTV’s Los Angeles based The Hills (2006–2010). Loughton, alongside its neighbouring areas of Buckhurst Hill and Brentwood, serves as the setting for ITV2’s The Only Way Is Essex (TOWIE), which premiered in October 2010. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in turn, alongside further central London locations, is home to E4’s Made in Chelsea (MiC), first seen on UK screens in May 2011 on the heels of TOWIE’s original success. Both shows, in line with their Spiritus rector, MTV’s The Real World and The Hills — and in the tradition of much reality television — are part of a hybrid genre category that draws alongside documentary traditions on television drama and in particular serial teen and high-school drama, as well as soap operas and telenovelas. The shows feature a cast that largely compromises twentysomethings with the occasional addition of younger and older members of their families, such as parents, grandparents, siblings or cousins.