INPUT / … / … / Beyond Entertainment

Entertainment usually has no subtext. Or should entertainment from a public broadcaster always contain a hidden agenda? Public broadcasters tend to tick many boxes of their remit order when they make a programme –educate, inform, entertain… sometimes the audience is not really impressed by this. It feels like on has to buy the “wolf in a sheep skin”. Public broadcasters always have to be in the position to be able to justify their programmes –and their spending to their audience. But is entertainment not a worthy value that public broadcasters are fit to fulfil? Does the crime scene story have to portray the diverse society as it should look ideally? Does the soap opera have to teach its audience what the dangers of for instance alcohol are? Sometimes TV making is about pleasing the audience and having fun whilst doing it. Your audience will thank you if you make programmes like the ones we have in this session.