Added: 01/13/2006 |
TV scheduleHow can anyone watch TV without having any idea about it's schedule? Of course you can come home from work, snatch something for dinner in the kitchen, fall on the coach in the living-room and start switching channels without any purpose, then your eye will probably catch something interesting on the one of them and you'll stick on it still not knowing what you're watching. Some people use this manner of TV-viewing all the times.
Others have another approach to TV viewing. Probably they all their contacts with TV are limited by cleaning the dust off from the TV-screen once a week.
But the most people do prefer to consult TV schedule in order to choose something worth viewing.
There're TV Guides that contain the very full and detailed TV-schedule. There you will read what in on TV, when is it on TV, what's the topic of the program, what's the movie about, who's the director and the actors. Probably the only thing these TV schedules won't tell you is what going to be in the news.
Some TV Guides include expanded reviews on the 'films of the week', or article telling all the secret of some TV-shows, particularly loved by viewers.
TV-schedule is the primary reason one buys a TV-Guide although those TV magazine usually contain lots of information of all kinds. All the articles are of course have entertaining character, exploiting the topics of stars' private lives: who's married, who's cheated on who, who's divorced and etc. All the scandals and sensations are number one guests in these TV Guide magazines. Over beloved genre is the stars' life stories, interviews and so on.
All the show-bis topics are very natural neighbors of the TV schedule but not the only one. In the back pages of TV Guides you can usually read some horoscopes, sometimes even culinary recipes and all other stuff of that kind. Every TV magazine has it's own rubric system in which the entertaining genres of all kinds co-exist just perfectly.
For free you can get acquainted with TV schedule in the Web, but most viewer prefer to have a paper TV guide always near at hand (really near so that you won't have to leave the coach to read it).
How do they make that schedule on the TV channels?
Well the main principle is one and the same for most of national channels in the world.
The morning starts with the news issue, which is repeated a few time during the morning show. That morning show is supposed to be entertaining and isn't supposed to mention any problems, serious topics, any material that may require to many attention or brain tense from the viewer. Then they usually repeat some of evening series of the soap operas or other serial TV-movies. On some channel you may even watch the yesterday evening movie. Morning, afternoon is the time for some old, plenty times shown movies, kids programs, cartoons and afternoon news issue of course.
The daytime is the time for housewives who have seen their husbands out for work and kids for school and now free to watch TV while doing some housework. In daytime and early evening TV channels broadcast soap operas, melodramas and TV-shows named something like 'what a girl wants'.
Evening is the prime time, when the most full issues of evening are shown, some talk shows discussing social and political problems, movie premier, blockbusters, comedies, thrillers, award winning movies and etc (most movies are shown in the weekends). Later at night you may find in the TV schedule some sports competitions, adult movies, art-house and not mass movies, talk-shows on some specific topics, night issues of news, musical programs ant etc.
All the one topic orientated channels have the less distinctive TV schedule. For example 'Animal Planet' shows animals from dawn do dusk.
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