Is Television Talk Show Therapy for Participants or Entertainment for the Audience?

United Kingdom has said to become a cosmopolitan country since globalization has taken over and it is also said to have a unique culture which includes some features of the cultures of East and West, yet differs from them. Talk shows are a phenomenon of mass culture, which emerged in the 20th century and occupies a place large enough for meaningful, time parameters. That their significance in popular culture due to several causes. They fill TV time, due to the large number of channels. Extremely high social importance, as they allow certain ideological orientations, and thereby to influence the minds of viewers. Talk shows allow you to bring the value of communication and behavior; visual images are transferred to everyday life (Davis, p. 476).

The talk shows have different genres and are said to deal with different aspect of media. It tends to offer an opportunity to unwind and relax and at the same time broaden the horizons by enlightening about new ideas about concepts, opinions which breaks the monotonous routine. It also tends to resolve problems that one is not comfortable talking about hence works as a form of therapy. Another feature of talk shows is that they are very good means of attracting and retaining an audience channels.

Types of Talk shows and their purpose

The talk show frequently base their structure on the basic use of a genre or two: Talk-shows are based primarily on interviewing. It is not only an interview, but a combination with other entertainment contents linked with the interview. This allows the program to give variety and maintain pace of attention to what is said and other transitions as well. The number of interviews can vary depending on configuration and duration of the program. As a program of information and entertainment presenter seeks appeal and popularity or uniqueness of the interviewee and the subject addressed, it is a depth-oriented interview, of curiosity, and controversy.

Talk-shows are also based primarily on gender and conversational debate. Unlike the previous mode, in this case involves several persons whom the presenter tries to get information through the debate, the clash of ideas or opinions and actions held by the contestants. The interviewer is not mere controller of topics, schedule and questions but seeks confrontation and encourages them to talk about, other interventions to reduce their and everyone they encounter dialectically. The show comes from the discussion of the confrontation. The variety of it depends on the scope of the genre that is used: conversation, debate or face to face conversation. The conference seeks to provide versions or different ideas about a topic; maintains a calm approach and offers less spectacular, is seeking actors of facts or those who hold versions, ideas or opinions or at least different in their presentations provide insights that are dissenting, but not necessarily opposites. They try to provide diversity of views, rather than confrontation or opposition of each other. A program that tries to ...