Entertainment Management: Death A Comet Broadcasting Student Report

This report analyzes the broadcasting idea 'Death on A Comet' by Discovery Canada, focusing on a show about Kepler's planet and space exploration. Targeting viewers aged 18-49, the program aims to provide knowledge about space and the possibility of life on other planets. The report highlights the growing popularity of science television shows and their potential to inspire viewers, especially young adults, to pursue scientific fields. The proposed show will uniquely cover NASA's Kepler mission, showcasing discoveries through a 30-minute broadcast with a script written by a science writer. The report emphasizes the immense interest in discovering habitable Earth-sized planets and the scientific motivation behind the Kepler mission, which could attract a large and loyal audience eager to learn about the universe and potential life beyond Earth. The report concludes that the show has the potential to attract young learners and spark interest in space exploration.

Entertainment Management:
Death A Comet
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Introduction
Broadcasting ideas published by Discovery Canada are multiple but most interesting concerns
Death on A Comet. The show will be showcasing Kepler’s planet where various mission has
gone to explore life. This will interest typical viewer between 18 and 49 years of age. This
program will reveal high knowledge and insights regarding various space exploration, to
understand if there is presence of life on other planets (1). Through this program viewers will be
thrilled with extraordinary experience of viewing space. It will be a story telling effort
commissioned with great take-away for viewers. There will be a scientific pitch associated with
the program that will be explored through various session.
Show Broadcasting Idea
Today’s children belong to the television age, where they learn and adapt a lot from television
shows. Television can inspire and motivate children as well as young adults in a better way. No
matter how inspirational school teachers might be, but television shows can fascinate as viewers
are more glued to them. Viewers for science shows have increased in the recent past decade with
a number of interesting television shows coin up. Television shows have often convinced various
people to take up research or go into studying astronomical subjects. Most interesting aspect
regarding science television shows are their depiction which is much better compared to actually
conducting research. There is a plethora of scientist-turned- broadcaster, who have come into the
field and are now showcasing various scientific shows.
Talk about various science fiction especially about life outside the Earth as always fascinated
humans. Even those without much interest in science watches such shows to understand the
possibility where humans might step into next. Science television shows are already a huge
success and parents of children prefer them watching science shows compared to cartoon. There
has been a high preference of parents these days, making their children watch science shows .
Watching Kepler’s planets will be a new show that has never been showcased in channels in the
world. It will attract viewers interests to happenings around the universe. The show will just
require a voice that will demonstrate various happenings around the space as seen through the
telescope (2). This show will be unique in nature as till date no other shows has covered this
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mission of NASA. The script of this broadcast will be written by science writer, who has
adequate knowledge of space and can use various terms. Creative team will just include voice
modulator. The show should be 30 minutes broadcast so as to retain interest of its viewers. It will
be minimum 20 episodes for the first season that will show various discoveries that are done by
Kepler’s mission. This show will broadcast century old quest for world that are similar to Earth
and humanly inhabitable (3). There is intense excitement and popular ineterst around discovering
hundreds of planets orbiting various stars in the universe.
The Kepler’s mission was specifically designed by team members of NASA for surveying our
Milky Way for discovering Earth sized planets that can be habitable. The mission explores
diversity and structure of varied planetary systems that are surveyed by shadow they cast while
orbiting, their star. Size and masses, shapes and density of planets are examined using telescopic
photographs (4). This show is bound to generate immense interests as it analyses data by taking
photographs and sending to Earth back as it is an unmanned mission. The scientific motivation
behind this mission is so huge that it is bound to create a long list of fan following. Viewers will
be thrilled for the very purpose to see if the next episode planet found by Kepler mission has
found any existence of life (5).
Conclusion
This show is bound to create an audience and loyal viewers. The scientific data explored through
this show will attract a host of young learners of science and attract their interests to happenings
associated outside our solar system. This type of program is new and unique to the entire
experience of watching the universe and outer space from the perspective of a telescope.
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