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• Television CSPs are studied through media language, representation, audiences, industries and context.
• Crime dramas use conventions such as investigation, conflict, enigmas and recurring character roles.
• Television series combine episodic narratives with longer narrative arcs.
• Neale argues genres rely on repetition and difference.
• Mise-en-scène communicates meanings about place, character and society.
• Cinematography, editing and sound shape tone and audience alignment.
• Opening episodes establish characters, conflicts and enigmas.
• Television narratives may follow disruption and repair structures.
• Binary oppositions help organise narrative meanings.
• Representations of place and identity are constructed rather than neutral.
• Television representations can reinforce or challenge gender conventions.
• Hall explains representation through construction and power.
• Van Zoonen and bell hooks provide frameworks for analysing gender and intersectionality.
• Broadcasters and production companies influence television products.
• Funding, scheduling and platforms affect television production and distribution.
• UK television operates within public service and regulatory contexts.
• Global distribution allows products to reach international audiences.
• Hesmondhalgh argues cultural industries use strategies to reduce risk.
• Audience targeting uses demographic and psychographic information.
• Marketing and branding help attract audiences.

• Compare television CSPs using the theoretical framework.
• Identify and analyse crime-drama conventions.
• Apply Neale's genre theory.
• Analyse mise-en-scène in television drama.
• Analyse cinematography, editing and sound.
• Analyse narrative structure and enigmas.
• Apply Todorov's narrative theory.
• Identify binary oppositions in television narratives.
• Analyse representations of place and identity.
• Analyse representations of gender.
• Apply Hall's representation theory.
• Apply Van Zoonen and bell hooks to television texts.
• Analyse how media language constructs meaning.
• Explain institutional influences on television production.
• Analyse the impact of PSB and regulation.
• Analyse global distribution strategies.
• Apply Hesmondhalgh's theory of cultural industries.
• Identify risk-reduction strategies used by television industries.
• Construct audience profiles using evidence.
• Compare audience targeting and marketing strategies.