Grand Designs

This is the first academic book to examine the long running hit series 'Grand Designs', which occupies a significant place in the popular imagination internationally. 0The authors apply an empirically grounded, critical perspective to the study of television to reveal how people use the program in their everyday lives. The emphasis on everyday uses and meanings combines creatively with understanding the program theoretically, textually and in terms of its production structures. This position challenges framings of the popular lifestyle and factual television genre that has been dominated by a…