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BROADCAST CRITIQUE - MIDNIGHT DINER: TOKYO STORIES

AHMAD ADLI BIN ROSLI 2018440664 MC243S4B BROADCAST CRITIQUE - MIDNIGHT DINER: TOKYO STORIES 1. What are the conventions that make up the genre? The conventions that make up the genre for Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories is about slice of life. Slice of life is about a realistic representation of everyday experience in film. The genre appears to be a slice of life, drama, romance, and comedy. The series revolves around stories of customers of a diner in Japan, with each episode telling different stories of their own everyday life. 2. If the program appears to be a hybrid genre, what are the conventions of the genres that have been combined to make it a hybrid? The program appears to be hybrid because of 2 different genres combined together. For example, the series also tells of a particular food or dish for each episode accompanied with different stories and challenges of the customer ordering the food. All of this create a hybrid genre. Meanwhile the Mast...

The Office UK (2001) - Broadcast Critics

The Office UK - 2001 The Office is a British television mockumentary sitcom first broadcast in the UK on BBC Two on 9 July 2001. Created, written, and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, and produced by Ash Atalla, the programme follows the day-to-day lives of office employees in the Slough branch of the fictional Wernham Hogg paper company. Gervais also stars in the series, playing the central character David Brent. Ricky Gervais' comedy The Office made its way stateside, where it premiered on BBC America. The Hollywood Reporter's original review is below. a sitcom without a laugh track, crass behavior, dark and "ghastly" realism and tragic humiliations broken by laugh-out-loud joke lines. The main character in The Office UK is David Brent who played by Ricky Gervais. He is the manager of Slough branch of Wernham Hogg paper merchants. In David Brent’s mind, he believed that he is the best boss as he is responsible but funny at the same...