Entertainment Essays

My name is Ushna Amin and I would like to put forward an idea about a new character for your TV sitcom the Simpsons. My character is a 10-year-old Japanese schoolboy. I have been watching your show for around 8 years and although it is a very good program I …

Documentary is a factual program that presents facts and information. There are few different types of documentaries such as expository, observational, fly on the wall, interactive, reflective, poetic and dramatised. There are debates within the documentaries. Are they telling the truth? Is it just the filmmakers’ opinion? Does the film …

Peter Kay’s ‘Phoenix nights’, set in Bolton in Lancashire tells a storey revolved around the ‘Phoenix club’, run by Brian Potter (played by Peter Kay). This sitcom has been said to be full off ‘witty dialogue, side-splitting one liners and intelligent observational humour’ (review form gingaroo) but also some would …

Documentary is a broad area within which there are a number of genres with their distinctive, characters type, story lines, key signs, and so on. This the definition of a documentary. For this assignment I have chosen to compare the following two documentaries, Big Brother and Treasure Island. There’re both …

The Simpsons is the most successful animated feature in television history. In this essay I will discuss some of the features of The Simpsons that make it so successful from the brilliant and intelligent Mini-narratives to the predictable but hilarious stereotypes. Although The Simpsons is entertaining it also has a …

“Good art that reaches thirty million people and makes them feel connected may have more to offer us now than great art that reaches three thousand and makes them feel more or less alone. In our time the standards for art have changed, expanded. The future belongs to Bart Simpson.” …

The British Culture has a long history in regulating pleasures associated with parties. A fear seems to exist of the unregulated body that dances and is intoxicated…It is therefore not surprising that the acid house parties; that heady mix of house ‘n’ E events in 1998, were followed by various …

Cuba is one of the most isolated nations in the world. This is not because of poor geography as the island sits ninety miles from the Floridian peninsula; it is due to the fact that its government controls virtually all consumer media. Cuba’s constitution states that “print and electronic media …

Victor Meldrew is the main character in a TV programme named ‘One Foot in the Grave’ which is a BBC made sitcom. The word sitcom is short for situation comedy. Sitcoms were founded in America, with the first one ‘I Love Lucy’ being a great success all over the world. …

A sitcom is a situational comedy television series. Sitcoms usually use comic devices to make them funny like puns, violence and exaggeration. They use satire, farce, parody, jokes, gags and slapstick to entertain the audience. Sitcoms usually last 30 minutes if shown on commercial TV and they involve chracters having …