Benefit Street

Benefit Street:
Audience:
The audience for benefit street would be mainly people ages between aged from 18+ because that is when you become and adult and start to get a job and then start to pay tax. It would also be watched by a lot of people who are in the A or B socio economic grouping because they are the people that have the better paid job and therefore pay more money in taxes. They will watch the show to see how their taxes are being spent and also to see how people in the E socio economic grouping live day to day.

Uses and Gratifications:
People might watch the show for;
Entertainment: they watch because they are interested to see how people at the lower end of society are living and the things that they do in their daily lives. They might watch it because people of a higher socio economic status find it relaxing and escape from reality because the show is so different to their normal lives.
Information: people might watch the show to get informed about how the benefit system works and how people are able to live off the money that they get given from benefits and see what their quality of life is like.
Social Integration: they might watch the show because it is a popular, controversial show that a lot of people are talking about and so they tune it to see why people are talking about it so much and so they can then join in on conversations and debates that people are having about the show.