Friday Night Dinner
Friday Night Dinner is a British television sitcom written
by Robert Popper and starring Tamsin Grieg, Paul Ritter, Simon Bird, Tom Rosenthal and Mark Heap. The comedy is focused on the regular dinner experience of a British Jewish family on each Friday night and is aimed at 18-35 year old men because it displays almost sentimental family comedy through the eyes of two sons. The first series originally aired from 25 February 2011 on Channel 4. Friday Night Dinner dinner in the Goodman family, reflecting writer and producer Robert Popper's own secular Jewish upbringing. The program offers narrative pleasures by introducing a confined story that resets every week, which leaves the viewer with a feeling of closure and satisfaction. The show also depicts a familiar setting for most people; an awkward or disastrous occasion with family. This taps into the sentimentality felt by older generations.
Bad Education
Bad Education was created by and stars Jack Whitehall as young teacher Alfie Wickers at
the fictional Abbey Grove School. The headmaster, played by Mathew Horne, works
alongside him. the series is aimed at 15-25 year old's because of it's immature, cultural comedy and irresponsible character. The series
launch it broke BBC Three's record for the highest-rated first episode of a
comedy. The second series premiered on BBC iPlayer as part of BBC Three's plans to
premiere all its scripted comedy programmes online. This experiment proved
successful, as the first episode of the second series received 1.5 million
requests. The third and final series of Bad
Education began transmission in September 2014, and concluded in October. Like Friday Night Dinner, Bad Education tells a confined story that resets each week. It also offers character archetypes which stereotype certain types of people; for example the unpopular, unlucky, unattractive kid and the unintelligent, loud, unintelligent bully. Each episode follows a similar structure: the character's