TV shows and Quizzes
TV shows are the most popular watched programmes after the news, because their main purpose is to entertain.
In majority of the cases a special topic is discussed in TV show. That is why there are TV shows of different topical specializations. Some of them change the topic of discussion every new programme. In majority of cases to increase their audience, they invite different experts. If it is political programme then politicians and diplomats, if it is a sports programme than they invite a coach or a sportsman. They are widely watched all over the world and have good rating.
These programmes give a great amount of useful information, well, if it is the intellectual show. The most popular are Talk shows and reality shows.
But sometimes these programmes turn into the boring discussion of these or that problems and in a few minutes people just loose the interest to watch it and simply change the channel.
The main aim is to entertain that is why sometimes TV shows don't have a high intellectual level or a cultural one. They do everything to provoke the emotions and not always good ones. They can make people cry, irritate, laugh, sympathize, feel sorry, etc. But people still watch it and day by day its rating increases as well as its profits. Show men become famous all over the world and become idols for many teenagers.
And of course one of the best ways to make the TV show popular is to invite the TV star, then the audience increases into several times.
You can see thousands of them in different channels, but all of them have similar features and help people to relax.
Quizzes are watched all over the world and they are one of the most famous programmes on television. This kind of programme is one of the new genres that has been elaborated by television to increase the audience.
As a rule quizzes need the participants and the presenter. Usually the participants are ordinary people who watch TV sets and want to take part in such kind of a programme.
Quizzes are based on the intellectual games. Participants are asked different questions on different fields of knowledge and according to the rules of the quizzes they may loose or win some prizes.
According to the researches, quizzes are so popular because they make people participate indirectly in the programme. In such a way people can test their own knowledge and even participate in the quiz later.
Quizzes help people to get new knowledge and to raise their cultural and intellectual level.
The only problem is that sometimes the quality of these quizzes is pour and you hear only stupid questions that may be answered by a child. Or they can be too difficult and in that case people just switch the channel. According to the psychologists quizzes should have 70 % of questions that can be answered by the average citizen and only 30 % of the questions that are really difficult and require special knowledge in this or that field.
Still quizzes continue to develop and to obtain more and more popularity.