Friends: the sitcom in the 1990s — Eduqas GCSE Media Studies C680
Eduqas GCSE Media Studies · C680
Friends: the sitcom in the 1990s
Sitcom
What you need to know
Friends, Season 1, Episode 1 (1994): an American sitcom about six friends in New York, made by Warner Bros. for NBC and shown in the UK on Channel 4, studied through a ten-minute extract chosen in class.
Media language: a conventional sitcom, with studio sets, a studio audience's laughter, an ensemble cast and storylines resolved within the episode.
Representation: a narrow picture of the diversity of US society, and gender roles that are slightly more challenging for their time.
Industry, audiences and contexts: a British broadcaster buying an American series, the 1990s context, and how audiences now watch and judge the series differently.
Refer to specific scenes in your own words, quoting no more than a few words of dialogue.
