University of Groningen Entertaining politics, seriously?! Schohaus, Birte

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A comparison of a quantitative analysis of the political items in five Dutch talk shows in the 2014/15 and 2015/16 seasons with interviews with journalists and political

They would be too broad, clear-cut definitions would be impossible and the introduction of hybrid television forms would have outdated the categorization in pure genres

For this research, semi-structured interviews with journalists and politicians and/or their spokesmen were combined with ethno- graphic research of the production processes of

Viewing politics as a stage play could renew people’s in- terest in politics, since it makes routines easier to understand and debates more interesting to follow, due to the fact

Chart 1: percentage of political topics in total amount of broadcasts Unsurprisingly, the daily talk shows with an accent on entertainment and soft news, DWDD and RTLLN, hosted

First, in order to map out the specific elements of two Dutch talk show formats, Pauw and Jinek (both are daily late night talk shows with a mix of hard news and entertaining

A talk show that focuses on news facts and current events uses journalists as media experts to get the back- ground information that politicians would not relate, or to add facts