One characteristic of TV Sitcoms was the targeting of the main audience demographic. The genres of soap operas, talk shows, and afternoon news programs were created because there is a large population of woman and mothers who watch television during the daytime. The sitcoms geared toward young families with children usually appear on television around dinner time, when the whole family is most likely to be together. The sitcoms were also character based, instead of story driven.
For example I Love Lucy is a sitcom that follows a young couple, but each episode has its own situational conflict and resolution. Such as the episode we saw in class about how Lucy finds a way to be in Ricky's commercial. She goes through several obstacles with the product she is supposed to sell, but by the end of the episode everything is better. The content of the show I Love Lucy was suitable for children and adults to enjoy. While the show Heroes functioned more on the progression of what happens next in a long complicated journey, where the resolution does not come until the end of the season, instead of the end of one episode. This show dealt with more adult issues, and premiered in the evening when older people would be tuned in.
As I mentioned before the show Heroes was a prime time show that was geared at an older audience. This show was not a sitcom because it did not follow all of the sitcom rules. Each episode of Heroes was a step toward the overall goal of the characters. Throughout the entire first season we get to know the characters but all the characters choices revolved around saving the world. By the season finale we finally get the satisfaction of the resolving the bigger problem.
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