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The article discusses the production of live television formats, as they have developed in Europe during the past decade. The analytical examples are taken from entertainment as well as factual television, and from public service as well as commercial contexts. In the article, it is argued that there has been an approximation between the textual features and generic and narrative structures of entertainment and factual live television, and a model is presented that is supposed to account for these narrative patterns.

The article presents the authors' insights on film studies in Sweden. The authors say that early research on Swedish film in 1950 lacked connections to the academic system and during 1960s, Swedish Film School and Svenska Filminstitute was founded in which film studies were institutionalized as an academic discipline. They state that in 1990, changes have taken place as Jan Olsson has been appointed and film studies become a separate Department of Cinema Arts.