Abstract

In recent years, the introduced franchises have been increasingly prosperous on Chinese Mainland TV channels. As it's known to all, different from our Chinese ones, those introduced franchises are mostly based on their original social life and cultural background, therefore, whether it is worth our effort to use the experience of foreign successful TV shows for reference and buy the copyright, whether those introduced franchises can achieve commercial success in China, and how to continue to bring the commercial value have become the concerned problem in the whole TV media industry. China's Got Talent broadcast by Dragon TV is undoubtedly a typical case of those introduced ones. However, instead of gaining the sustainable success as its original model Britain's Got Talent, the success and popularity of China’s Got Talent is transient, in spite of producing a sensational effect at the very start. As for this, the author will start his paper with different fate in China's and Britain's Got Talent, combine the phenomenon and the essence together based on the cultural dimensions theory by Geert Hofstede, and focus on the show's production and broadcasting features, in order to show the similarities and differences between the two and analyze the influence of globalization, localization, and cross culturalization on TV media industry and social life. What's more, after a thorough exploration of China's Got Talent's big success in the beginning and its sudden massive failure then, the author will also put forward the related constructive suggestions, in which he will emphasize the importance of understanding plebification, facticity, and suspense in TV talent shows’ producing and broadcasting. What’s more, the author would also like to explore a more proper way of applying plebification, facticity, and suspense in TV media. By doing so, the author believe that it can create good condition for TV shows’ long-term development, serve the communication and progress of between Chinese and foreign TV shows' production and broadcasting under the globalization background, as well as serve to the understanding and communication between the Chinese and Western cultures.

Key words: TV culture plebification facticity suspense

Contents

Abstract

摘要

Introduction-1

1 Plebification-2

1.1 The Plebification in China’s Got Talent’s Success-3

1.2 The Cultural Basis behind Plebification-3

1.3 The Plebification in China’s Got Talent’s Failure-6

1.4 The Cultural Basis behind the Program’s Failure-8

2 Facticity-9

2.1 The Facticity in China’s Got Talent’s Success-10

2.2 The Cultural Basis behind Facticity-10

2.3 The Facticity in China’s Got Talent’s Failure-11

2.4 The Cultural Basis in the Program’s Failure-12

3 Suspense-12

3.1 The Reflections of Suspense in China’s Got Talent’s Success-13

3.2 The Cultural Basis behind Suspense in China’s Got Talent’s Success-13

3.3 The Reflections of Suspense in China’s Got Talent’s Failure-15

3.4 The Cultural Basis of Suspense in China’s Got Talent’s Failure-15

Conclusion-16

Bibliography-17

Acknowledgments-19