Task 3

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The creators of the television series Doctor Who have made the show to attract a certain group of people. Firstly, the target audience are people that are into films/TV shows that are the genre of: science-fiction, action and drama as this is the genre of the show. The age range of the audience is 12 to 50 year olds. The show is aimed to attract young people so that the show can be seen as cool and trendy however, older people may want to watch it as they may of watched the series back when it started when they were young. There isn't a specific gender that mainly watches the show as anyone can be into the genres and the two main characters in the show are often to be male and female. On varies different websites there are merchandise from the show, such as figures of the characters, that people can buy. This means that the audience spending power can be fairly average as it doesn't cost a lot for the merchandise. Doctor Who is a BBC show so the audience have to have a TV licence in order to watch it which costs £157.50 per year or they can watch some of the series on Netflix which is £8.99 per month.

TV shows portraying characters with disabilities

Many TV shows have characters with disabilities which helps to show awareness and acceptance. This gives people with disabilities to have the opportunity to be an actor/actress as many years ago there wasnt as much opportunity for them but now as people are becoming more and more accepting, there are more opportunity's for an acting role in a film/tv show. However, characters that have disabilities doesn't always necessarily mean the actor/actress has a disability.

One TV show that has a disability character but the actor doesn't have a disability is Sheldon Cooper, who is acted by Jim Parsons, in The Big Bang Theory. In this sitcom, it doesn't actually tell the audience that Sheldon has a disability but the character does show many symptoms of Asperger syndrome. Throughout the 12 series of this TV show, Sheldon struggles with reading peoples emotions and understanding why people feel sad, angry or happy. However as the series goes on, Sheldon learns how to understand peoples emotions more which connects the audience with him as he grows. Another show with disabled characters is Glee. There are two characters with disabilities, one being the character Artie Abrams who was in a car accident and is in a wheelchair, and another being the character Becky Jackson who has Down syndrome. Artie Abrams is acted by Kevin McHale who in fact is not disabled. However Lauren Potter, who plays Becky Jackson, is disabled and her character is a cheerleader in the school. Stereotypically, films/TV shows have cheerleaders that are classed as 'pretty' and 'slim' but in recent years the media has been teaching people that 'everyone is beautiful in their own way' so the actress Lauren Potter is just as much accepted to be a cheerleader than anybody else.

How we are introduced to the new Doctor Who character

To gain knowledge of how I should write my script for the new Doctor Who character, I watched a few episodes of when a new doctor is introduced in the series. While watching this I realised the opening scene tends to be a action scene where a lot is happening. This draws the audience in as it will make them feel excited straight away. When a new doctor is introduced in the show, the doctor is familiarising themselves to the new body they are in which leads the dialogue to include the Doctor talking about how they feel. In this series it shows the Doctor and his companion trying to stop aliens harming the world. As it is shown from the Doctor's prospective, it makes the audience want them to succeed. The Doctor is a very unusual character as he/she is only half human so he/she is very different to people. This makes the Doctor very likable as he/she comes across funny to the audience with his/hers funny one liners and the Doctor often share a lot of banter with their companion.

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