Chris Evans launched "The Terry and Gaby Show" on Five in 2003, in an attempt to compete with ITV's "This Morning". In
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Sam Iles
GCSE Media Studies Assignment
Chris Evans launched “The Terry and Gaby Show” on Five in 2003, in an attempt to compete with ITV’s “This Morning”. In less than a year it had been axed.
Looking in detail at an episode from each show, identify the codes and conventions of the daytime TV genre, and suggest why “The Terry and Gaby Show” failed to dent the popularity of “This Morning”.
After looking at each of the episodes I found that the presenters in each one were quite the same. In both of the shows they have a man and a woman presenter and in both of the shows they seem very chatty and friendly. I think that in TAGS the presenters (Terry and Gaby) are better known and also have been in lots of different shows working together in the past. I think this shows that they should be able to work together very well and this should help the show, but as they know each other well it could make them more relaxed and so this could spoil it slightly as they talk to each other rather than the audience. In both of the shows the presenters are smiley and happy which is good because this should help people be more relaxed watching the show. It also makes it more personal to the people watching. For TAGS I think the presenters are more well known and more famous they are well known for some of the shows they have been in and this could make people more likely to watch it. In TM the presenters talk to the audience more rather than talking to each other, which will definitely help the show but the presenters of TM (Fern and Philip) are not as well known and not as famous so people might rather see TAGS. I think that the presenters have nothing to do with TAGS being axed. I feel that the conventions for daytime TV presenters are that they have to be chatty, happy and friendly. Terry and Gaby are well known for being in lots of shows but most of the shows they are in are similar. In all of the shows they are in they are smiley happy and chatty which is the same in TAGS. This is probably why they were chosen for the show in the first place.