Television Narratives in the Making: The Approximation of Factual and Entertainment Narration.

The article discusses the production of live television formats, as they have developed in Europe the last 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 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 suppose to account for these narrative patterns. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]