Andrea Esser
Biographic Data
| ID | 3047300 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Esser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Esser |
| SIGNATURE | ESSER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Roehampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7453-8570 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Global platforms, new media generations and Anglo-American hegemony: An exploration of young audience viewing and language preferences in four European countries
This article examines British screen content consumption among young audiences aged 16–34 in four European countries: Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy. It suggests a reconsideration of content flow theories that maintain ‘home advantage’ for domestic content, followed by shows from culturally or linguistically proximate countries. The research reveals a shift among younger viewers towards a re-asserted Anglo-American hegemony, driven b…
Young Danish audiences and British screen content: A critical reflection on transnational consumption, geo-linguistic regions, and cultural proximity
Drawing on survey and interview data from a pilot study undertaken online in Denmark (March–July 2020), this article provides exploratory insights about how young audiences in Denmark (aged 16–34, with a background in higher education) engage with British television and film as viewing shifts from broadcast television to online on-demand services. First, drawing on survey data, we concentrate on consumption habits and genre preferences regarding …
The TV format trade and the world media system: Change and continuity
TV format sector consolidation and its impact on the configuration and ‘stickiness’ of the UK entertainment production market
This article is concerned with the consolidation of European TV format production companies during the first two decades of the twenty-first century and its likely impact on the configuration and long-term sustainability of the world’s leading format production market, the United Kingdom. Theoretically and methodologically influenced by various approaches – critical political economy, meso-level television industries research and scholarship conc…
Form, platform and the formation of transnational audiences: A case study of how Danish TV drama series captured television viewers in the United Kingdom
This article combines analysis of form, platform and audiences for a holistic understanding of how Danish series entered the global trade in TV fiction. Building on existing research on form and production values, it adds a wide-ranging empirical case study, exploring the specific local conditions that led to the introduction of Danish series in the United Kingdom in 2011 and subsequent growth in UK audiences for Danish and other subtitled TV ser…
Applying the Concept of the Good: The Final End and the Highest Good in Kant’s Third Critique
The Duality of Banal Transnationalism and Banal Nationalism: Television Audiences and the Musical Talent Competition Genre
The use of international television formats by public service broadcasters in Australia, Denmark and Germany
Today, the use of internationally licensed television formats, developed in one market and sold for local adaptation, is a widespread practice amongst commercial broadcasters around the world. But how has this trend impacted on public service broadcasting? Public service stipulations include the provision of content that informs and educates, helps imagine the nation, enriches the lives and culture of its citizens and provides an inclusive public…
Format is King”: Television Formats and Commercialisation
In 2005, one of four subheadings of an article on trends in entertainment programming published in the RTL Group's Television 2005 Yearbook read "Format is king" (IP, 2005). It was aptly chosen. Throughout the first decade of the twenty-first century, formatted shows such as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Idols and America's Next Top Model, developed in one market and sold internationally for local adaptation, proved highly popular with audience…
The format business: Franchising television content
The new millennium has seen the franchising of television content escalate. The trade in so-called TV formats, like Big Brother or The X Factor, sold internationally for local adaptation, has multiplied. This article aims to illuminate the development of the format trade and the reasons for its acceleration and globalization in the early twenty-first century. It will be argued that franchising has come to play and will continue to play a prominen…
European Media: Structures, Policies and Identity
Television Formats: Primetime Staple, Global Market
The last decade has witnessed the growth of TV formats such as Big Brother or The X Factor, developed in one market and sold internationally for local adaptation. This article reveals the scale and significance formatted television content has attained, drawing on a case study analysis of US schedules from the 2007–2008 broadcast season. The high share of formatted programming found in primetime schedules (an average of 33% of broadcast hours) be…
Audiovisual Content in Europe: Transnationalization and Approximation
This article is concerned with the development of television in Europe in the context of commercialization and the complex global–local nexus defining contemporary cultural spheres. It is argued that since the mid 1980s the trajectory of European television, notwithstanding local particularities, has been defined by an underlying trend towards transnationalization and approximation. The aim of this article is to demonstrate that this also include…
Television Formats: Primetime Staple, Global Market
The last decade has witnessed the growth of TV formats such as Big Brother or The X Factor, developed in one market and sold internationally for local adaptation. This article reveals the scale and significance formatted television content has attained, drawing on a case study analysis of US schedules from the 2007–2008 broadcast season. The high share of formatted programming found in primetime schedules (an average of 33% of broadcast hours) be…
The format business: Franchising television content
The new millennium has seen the franchising of television content escalate. The trade in so-called TV formats, like Big Brother or The X Factor, sold internationally for local adaptation, has multiplied. This article aims to illuminate the development of the format trade and the reasons for its acceleration and globalization in the early twenty-first century. It will be argued that franchising has come to play and will continue to play a prominen…
Audiovisual Content in Europe: Transnationalization and Approximation
This article is concerned with the development of television in Europe in the context of commercialization and the complex global–local nexus defining contemporary cultural spheres. It is argued that since the mid 1980s the trajectory of European television, notwithstanding local particularities, has been defined by an underlying trend towards transnationalization and approximation. The aim of this article is to demonstrate that this also include…
European Media: Structures, Policies and Identity
Form, platform and the formation of transnational audiences: A case study of how Danish TV drama series captured television viewers in the United Kingdom
This article combines analysis of form, platform and audiences for a holistic understanding of how Danish series entered the global trade in TV fiction. Building on existing research on form and production values, it adds a wide-ranging empirical case study, exploring the specific local conditions that led to the introduction of Danish series in the United Kingdom in 2011 and subsequent growth in UK audiences for Danish and other subtitled TV ser…
TV format sector consolidation and its impact on the configuration and ‘stickiness’ of the UK entertainment production market
This article is concerned with the consolidation of European TV format production companies during the first two decades of the twenty-first century and its likely impact on the configuration and long-term sustainability of the world’s leading format production market, the United Kingdom. Theoretically and methodologically influenced by various approaches – critical political economy, meso-level television industries research and scholarship conc…
The use of international television formats by public service broadcasters in Australia, Denmark and Germany
Today, the use of internationally licensed television formats, developed in one market and sold for local adaptation, is a widespread practice amongst commercial broadcasters around the world. But how has this trend impacted on public service broadcasting? Public service stipulations include the provision of content that informs and educates, helps imagine the nation, enriches the lives and culture of its citizens and provides an inclusive public…
The TV format trade and the world media system: Change and continuity
Audiovisual Content in Europe: Transnationalization and Approximation
This article is concerned with the development of television in Europe in the context of commercialization and the complex global–local nexus defining contemporary cultural spheres. It is argued that since the mid 1980s the trajectory of European television, notwithstanding local particularities, has been defined by an underlying trend towards transnationalization and approximation. The aim of this article is to demonstrate that this also include…
Television Formats: Primetime Staple, Global Market
The last decade has witnessed the growth of TV formats such as Big Brother or The X Factor, developed in one market and sold internationally for local adaptation. This article reveals the scale and significance formatted television content has attained, drawing on a case study analysis of US schedules from the 2007–2008 broadcast season. The high share of formatted programming found in primetime schedules (an average of 33% of broadcast hours) be…
European Media: Structures, Policies and Identity
Format is King”: Television Formats and Commercialisation
In 2005, one of four subheadings of an article on trends in entertainment programming published in the RTL Group's Television 2005 Yearbook read "Format is king" (IP, 2005). It was aptly chosen. Throughout the first decade of the twenty-first century, formatted shows such as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Idols and America's Next Top Model, developed in one market and sold internationally for local adaptation, proved highly popular with audience…
The format business: Franchising television content
The new millennium has seen the franchising of television content escalate. The trade in so-called TV formats, like Big Brother or The X Factor, sold internationally for local adaptation, has multiplied. This article aims to illuminate the development of the format trade and the reasons for its acceleration and globalization in the early twenty-first century. It will be argued that franchising has come to play and will continue to play a prominen…
The use of international television formats by public service broadcasters in Australia, Denmark and Germany
Today, the use of internationally licensed television formats, developed in one market and sold for local adaptation, is a widespread practice amongst commercial broadcasters around the world. But how has this trend impacted on public service broadcasting? Public service stipulations include the provision of content that informs and educates, helps imagine the nation, enriches the lives and culture of its citizens and provides an inclusive public…
Applying the Concept of the Good: The Final End and the Highest Good in Kant’s Third Critique
The Duality of Banal Transnationalism and Banal Nationalism: Television Audiences and the Musical Talent Competition Genre
The TV format trade and the world media system: Change and continuity
TV format sector consolidation and its impact on the configuration and ‘stickiness’ of the UK entertainment production market
This article is concerned with the consolidation of European TV format production companies during the first two decades of the twenty-first century and its likely impact on the configuration and long-term sustainability of the world’s leading format production market, the United Kingdom. Theoretically and methodologically influenced by various approaches – critical political economy, meso-level television industries research and scholarship conc…
Form, platform and the formation of transnational audiences: A case study of how Danish TV drama series captured television viewers in the United Kingdom
This article combines analysis of form, platform and audiences for a holistic understanding of how Danish series entered the global trade in TV fiction. Building on existing research on form and production values, it adds a wide-ranging empirical case study, exploring the specific local conditions that led to the introduction of Danish series in the United Kingdom in 2011 and subsequent growth in UK audiences for Danish and other subtitled TV ser…
Young Danish audiences and British screen content: A critical reflection on transnational consumption, geo-linguistic regions, and cultural proximity
Drawing on survey and interview data from a pilot study undertaken online in Denmark (March–July 2020), this article provides exploratory insights about how young audiences in Denmark (aged 16–34, with a background in higher education) engage with British television and film as viewing shifts from broadcast television to online on-demand services. First, drawing on survey data, we concentrate on consumption habits and genre preferences regarding …
Global platforms, new media generations and Anglo-American hegemony: An exploration of young audience viewing and language preferences in four European countries
This article examines British screen content consumption among young audiences aged 16–34 in four European countries: Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy. It suggests a reconsideration of content flow theories that maintain ‘home advantage’ for domestic content, followed by shows from culturally or linguistically proximate countries. The research reveals a shift among younger viewers towards a re-asserted Anglo-American hegemony, driven b…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Media Studies and Communication (7 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (6 works) · Advertising (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Entertainment (5 works) · Law (4 works)