Gilmore Girls

Television shows have been a big part of our culture for several decades now. The progression on how these shows have affected our lives is something I’ve come to wonder about. Whether a good or bad thing, I personally don't go a day without some form of television interaction. The medias which we are able to access a tv series have become much more vast than the limitation of only a TV set. Many teens to young adults, including myself, stream series from tablets, pc’s and also cell phones now, which has completely changed the interaction standard, let alone what it is people take from the experience. People may not intentionally try to take something from watching 11 episodes of Gilmore Girls in one sitting, but it just comes to show how times

To begin with there was the introduction of color in the 1950’s. Families were completely entranced when they saw their usual black and white programs transform into every hue and shade of the rainbow. TV color started in the 1920’s and did not develop into a wide range of television use until the early 1940’s (10 TV Moments 2011). It was however used in the 1939 movie classic The Wizard of Oz. To exaggerate the use of color in the film the first half of the movie was filmed in black and white, then transformed into color. This was to portray the entire color transformation for television media. The director even change the original story write for Dorothy's silver slippers to become ruby slippers to make the use of color all the more exciting. Then entered Walt Disney. He created The Wonderful World of Color in October 1954, an appropriate name for such a

I Love Lucy was one of the more successful dramas they debuted during this time and aired from 1951- 1957 (History of Television 1997). Another format that was introduced in the mid- 1950’s was The big money quiz shows. The $64,000 Question quickly grew to the top of the charts, but it did not last. After the first woman to win a $64,000 prize it got out that the show was “controlled”. The producers of the show didn't want the women to win the prize, so the questions suddenly changed to be out of the women's range of knowledge, nonetheless she still answered them correctly. It was these sort of occurrences that created the great quiz show scandal of the 1950’s (Television's