Q.3 How far does Cuffs adapt police drama conventions to fit its family audience at 8 p.m. on BBC1?
In your answer you must
- 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.
Cuffs adapts police drama conventions to fit its family audience at 8pm on BBC1
