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To whom is the text addressed? What is the target audience? I would say that the target audsience of a serial like Bad Girls is mainly women. Starting form the age of about 17 targeting onwards to an odler audience too.
What assumptions about the audience’s characteristics are implicit within the text? First being the whole serial itslef is based around a womens prison. So this can be implicit that the target audience is mainly women.

What assumptions about the audience are implicit in the text’s scheduling or positioning? Bad Girls comes on every thursday at 9.00pm. Women back from work may watch it and also teenagers.
In what conditions is the audience likely to receive the text? ITV every thursday, viewers that do not have additional packages such as sky and cable can also watch it.
What do you know or can you assume about the likely size and constituency of the audience? Likely size of audience is large, also because it is only on once a week makes it more interesting to watch as it only comes one once in the week.
How do you, as an audience member, read and evaluate the text? To what extent is your reading and evaluation influenced by your age, gender, background etc? Because we are still quite young we do not get to see or hear about the things that happen in female prisons, therefore makes it more interesting. This programme gets down to things they could happen and also things that are so rare that may happen in prison that we dont even get hear about in the media. And also being female ourselves its good to see how different females think and deal with things.