Return of the Talking Heads: Entering the Third Wave of Television News Dramaturgy 

• Kenneth Reinecke Hansen ^[1] ; Peter Bro ^[1] ; Ralf Andersson ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Southerm Denmark
• Localización: Nordicom review: Nordic research on media & communication, ISSN 1403-1108, Vol. 37, Nº. 1, 2016, págs. 43-56
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1515/nor-2016-0008
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  • The present article suggests that the brief history of Western television news dramaturgy can be expounded as three major waves: from the early days of the talking heads in the studio, over the narrativization of the field report to a (re-)current studio- and field-based talking heads format. In order to analyze the latest development entering the third wave, we propose a theoretically based dramaturgical model for the television news item. The analysis concludes that, with the current ‘return’ of the talking heads format, the pre-produced and pre-packaged bulletin program about past events is dissolving and transforming into an evaluative present- and future-oriented update format that resembles the 24-hour news- only channels. Production time merges with broadcast time so that the uncertainty of live spreads to the dramaturgy.