| Taking a broad view in Taiwan present TV culture these years, making sense of our society via the television fare has become increasingly difficult, if not impossible. The loss of connection between social reality and its supposed representation has been most acutely felt on current-affairs talk shows. The content of current Taiwan call-in TV talk shows, presumed to facilitate public debate on issues of general concerns, served only to flame up political confrontations and social division. As public dissatisfaction gradually reflected itself via audience ratings, the once hot "genre" seemed to lose its charm on creen. And competing in the fierce television market at present, spelling pastes each scene type analogy the programme text, in addition the actors taunt the exaggerating imitation performance, is deeply liked by the audiences.In 2004, from the past to today, in the programme the fixed harmony imitates character' classical lines, the standard hand signal, even performing the formula with to lay out the bridge section, in its audience's fantasy, the share, recreated and the biography disperses, which extended is imitating the phenomenon along the harmony programme to spread.Because a trend of postmodern pastiche on television, making the medium all the more boundary-blurring than ever. It is therefore the purpose of this essay to explore this trend through a case study of the programme. It first deals with the origin and function of current-affair talk-shows, so as to explain why traditional call-in talk shows started to lose their audiences. The drawing on postmodern theory, it examines the programming strategies of Everybody Speaks Nonsense. Finally it attempts some alternative observation, hoping to clarify the confusing media phenomenon of all-in talk shows, which is unique of Taiwan. |
