Coronation Street Episodes

Older Episodes
The older episodes had more of white people than any other race because there wasn't as much races in the realistic than just mainly white people. In this era there was more of working class people because of the sort of money people were earning in that era wasn't good which caused people to be put in the group of working class people. The people were older such as middled aged people because in the episodes there wasn't very young people which cause the audience to be a older age group because there was only old people in the episodes. The woman weren't treated as well as they are now because it was shown in a man's point of view which was good but it would be seen as sexism now because everyone is equal. In this era the main situation which would cause conflict between people would be that a man and woman would live together but they wouldn't be married which would have caused conflict.

A episode that is a bit newer
The episodes that were newer were more questioning of the genders seeing who's position was more important and was more in charge or equal. In this era the men were more dominate in the society because the men were to be said as the more able and hard working gender because they said that the men were the workers while the women had to stay at home while they did all the cleaning and that.

Newer episodes

The era of this was more accepting because they had people that for example came out from being gay and weren't scared of what people thought and that they could be equal to every because they were homosexual. The stereotypical view on homosexuals are that they want everything clean and are just like big children because they seem like they are just childish and always wanting to have fun which isn't correct because some homosexuals are the opposite. There was a lot of active and passive reception to people with coronation street because people either watched the programme or had it just playing in background.

Newest episode
In the newest episodes they have changed from scenes that have only had white people in them because of the era they were in a era where there was more white people in the community but it has has a change in ethnic diversity and is more of a multi-cultural society now because the show have changed it to be more realistic and because in England and the cities of England there are many different cultures, so because coronation street want more people to watch it then they have changed it to be more realistic so that it appeals to everyone. The era of the episodes also show that women are more dependent and can do what they want because in this era of the society men and women are equal unlike 50 years ago.

Multinational Eastenders

Task One
1. The countries that watch eastenders aboard that are main viewers are Canada, India and Switzerland.
2. There are many countries that watch eastenders because they go around the world with loads of countries.
3. I didn't expect to see these results because after seeing these I thought to myself that because eastenders is a British show I would think that it would be watched by only British people but I think that it is a very good thing that they get broad casted around the world because the publicity will be very high.
4. The surprises of this would be knowing that eastenders gets broad casted in India is amazing that it get broad casted on the other side of the world.

Task Two
1. I think it is shown in other countries because they want their publicity to go up because they probably think that they need to increase their publicity which would help them overall as a programme because they will show that people would want to watch their programme which would also get them profit from people watching them.
2. Anyone watches the programmes because it is a programme that is made for anyone to watch that can relate to peoples normal day lives.
3. They watch it to see how people in England might live because the programme is made to show how the English culture live and act every living day.

Task Three
1. The ways that eastenders are shown around are by them making actual channels that eastenders would be shown around the world because it would be cheaper than actually paying other channels to broad cast their episodes.
2. They would watch the episodes on special channels that are made for the countries that want to watch it such as BBC1, they sometimes also watch programmes on channels that would show channel one in England being on a countries transfer channel.
3. The episodes would be shown on BBC iplayer as well because it is a catch up website.
4. Technology helps eastenders being broad casted around the world because the internet needs technology for it to show episodes of eastenders all over Britain and also the world.
5. Some countries would show subtitles on eastenders in another country because they might not know the English language which would need them to have subtitles.

Cultural Changes

Question 1

British culture has changed quite a lot in the last quarter of the century because years ago there was many white people around and when you said British because you would normally see a family that have mixed from the countries England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland which made a white British background and this was the only ethnicity you would have seen. These days there has been a major increase in forgein cultures coming in Great Britain which has made British vary so much from not just having an all white background. They have British that are mixed from white and black, white and Turkish an similar backgrounds. These have changed the way people seeing each other by that everyone is British that lives in Great Britain and no-one will be discriminated by what ethnicity background you have.

Question 2

Britain is a multi-cultural society and we can see this from Coronation street because many years before when the show first got aired and show to the public there wasn't any other ethnicity than white because when the show was made which was in 1960 there wasn't many other ethnicity's than just white, so they didn't have any other cultural backgrounds, just white. We can now see that from the episodes that are present there are many different cultures that are involved in the episodes because these days they need to be realistic to the present day and because there are many different cultures in the episodes they have made it realistic so that people won't feel discriminated against.

This clips shows when the show was recently new and had a white cast and didn't have multi-cultural actors in it.

This clip shows more of a recent show in 2004 where Dev and Sunita get married and shows the way of how their culture get married and shows a multi-cultural event on a programme where before there would only have been white cast members.

Question 3

The British soaps have changed to more of a multi-cultural society because they have put more multi-cultural people in to make it more realistic. This has then made it more appealing to the audience because they would feel that it's more like real life then a fake representation of life.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBLaD3A2jic&feature=fvst this is a clip on youtube which shows a clip of coronation street in the 1960s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvniGV8ftik this shows a clip of coronation street that is more realistic because the clip is from this year.

Question 4

Youth culture has had an impact on British soaps because in the 1960s they didn't have as much youth characters which would have made less youth watch the programme because it wouldn't relate to them but because there was more adults which related to the adults which made the figures of adults watching more of this programme then youths. The picture on the right shows the casting of Coronation street in the 1960s where there are no youth characters which is the cause of more adults watching the programme. The result of less youth watching the programmes was a big impact on the directors decision by involving more youth characters in the cast of the shows. The impact of them adding more youth characters in the programmes has made the show's publicity increase a lot because they had youth and older generations watch the programmes. The picture below on the left shows the cast of Coronation street 2011 which has children, teenagers and adults in their cast which has help the publicity of Coronation street increase.

Question 5

Another cultural change that had a impact on British soap operas was that different cultural restaurants and shops came to Great Britain and caused the soap to also bring them into their episodes. In the days before more forgein shops and restaurants came there was only take aways such as fish and chip shops and they has full English breakfast cafes but these days there are much more forgein foods that are now around such as kebab shops, Indian and Chinese restaurant which is realistic because there are many shops and restaurants around these days. They bring in these so that it shows that more cultures have come into Great Britain which is good because it shows that different cultures have come into Britain and showing that they can fit in and people would enjoy the food.

The picture on the top is a picture of a kebab shop that is coronation street which is a different cultured shop with the traditional kebab meat and on the bottom is a cafe that is a traditional English cafe because they do the full-English breakfast which is a traditional English food.