Recently I’ve been thinking about how much artists cater to their audiences. As the audience is everything, everyone really plays on that idea, uses it to their advantage, use it to make money – it’s all business. TV uses their audiences, obviously. My sister and my mum are watching TV as I write this and the former, in a thirteen year old fashion is squealing about how she has waited three seasons for these two characters to get together. She then proceeded by watching their much awaited steamy get together, and when I asked her if it was up to her expectations she looked at me, grinned, then looked back at the screen grimacing every so often. She has literally grown into an eighteen year old in front of my eyes. Coming back to my main point, it goes to show how active audiences are these days while watching TV shows. These producers, directors, everyone involved know what they’re doing. They deliberately don’t let two characters get together so this happens to viewers across the country. Yes, the audience controls ratings, but the producers control the audience’s emotions and that is television. This is what I love about it, being able to produce something that thrusts such a plethora of emotions onto a vulnerable and antagonised mind. This is television. This is media.