cuffs characters

 Left to right, name the officers (1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)

1=Donna , 2=Lino , 3=Jake ,4=Joe Muffat ,5=Ryan Draper  ,6= Carl , 7=Chief super intendent Vickers, 8= Felix  

9 Who is this? PC Misha 

10 Name the owner of the corner shop

-Muhammed

11 Name the racist thug

-Benson 

12 Name the drug addict

-Nathan 

13 Name the mother whose child is taken by her ex husband

-Sian Quirk

- Cinnamon toothpaste  

paper 1 exam feedback

How far does Cuffs adapt police drama conventions to fit its family audience at 8 p.m. on BBC1?

• state what conventions you could expect from most TV police drama
  
• analyse the programme's use of genre conventions, making sure that you cover the whole episode (not just the extract played in the exam). This means explaining all the crimes that occur in the episode and everything that the police have to deal with that may be upsetting for viewers.
  
• explain who the audience is for Cuffs
• explain how far the programme adapted conventions
  
• draw conclusions about how far the extract adapts the conventions of police drama to fit its scheduling and audience

Family friendly shows are shown between the period before 9pm and after 5.30am when programmes containing material unsuitable for children cannot be shown, this includes sexual content, violence, graphic or distributing imagery and swearing. This means that the programme Cuffs have to be very careful for their content, which might be seen to reduce the realism of the programme as police officers have to avoid swearing. Cuffs adapt police drama conventions to fit family audiences by not showing any graphic scenes of hostility throughout the episode of Cuffs, and don't show any nudity. This brings younger audiences because they will not be too frightened or disturbed on what they are seeing. By not showing aggressive and threatening scenes throughout the episode but still having the factor of action and crime allows all audiences to watch as well as older audiences because they wont get bored. This helps Cuffs to get the most views they could possibly have. For example their is a boy in a corner shop that gets stabbed but the audience doesn't actually see him getting stabbed but we see the boy laying in the floor with blood around his head. By showing the audience this much of the crime, means that the younger audience wouldn't get uncomfortable but their is still that element of excitement and intenseness for the older views so that they don't turn off the episode. 

The audience for Cuffs would probably be between 14+ because the programme is suitable for everyone as their content is exciting but not aggression heavy like some other crime tv programmes. The regulators of BBC, BBC1, S4C, Channel 4 and other broadcasters if Ofcom who control what is allowed to be produced, at what time and on what channel. BBC1 keep to their regulations by involving no threatening scenes or harsh violence.  Cuffs is broadcasted at 8pm, I think this is the right time they should streaming due to it being later in the evening you meaning less chance of what is shown to be affecting the audience. 

Therefore I conclude that, Cuffs adapts its programme to be suitable for the before 9pm audience.