tv documentaries

History of television documentaries

Television documentaries have been popular since the advent of television as a way of informing and collating data as well as a good basis of propaganda it became more commonplace in the latter part of the 20^th century and became a very popular way to convey information to the masses with programmes such as Watergate which detailed the Watergate scandal and then nature documentaries like the blue planet they are normally popular as they enable education, the blue planet being seen by over 12 million people which shows how popular they are. People also tend to watch documentaries as a way of light entertainment also for the fact of the BBC’s goals is to inform to educate and to entertain. For the BBC this is shown by the amount of people who watch the documentaries with tv programmes with documentaries such as educating Yorkshire it was the most watched programme on channel 4 for the entirety of the first season