Passive and Active Audiences

Passive Audiences
Some examples of Series with Passive audiences are ones such as Eastenders, Coronation Street and Hollyoaks.
Passive means that the audience do not have any influence on the structure of the show, they can not change it.
Such as Eastenders it is filmed 6weeks in front, this is the way they have organised it so it is of a good structure and it works in time for more scripts to be written.

Advantage: Having a fixed structure helps make production easier, there is no conflict with viewers giving their opinions, some viewers may want one things while the other half would prefer to see something else.

Disadvantage: People may not be as loyal to the show as things in that one episode might not be as interesting to them, the topics being acted out are not some that relate to the person, where as if they had a choice that would be watching what they wanted. Also it could be irrelevant to what the viewers are wanting to see.

Active Audiences
Some examples of programmes that have active audiences are ones such as Seven Days, Big Brother and X Factor where the audience depict the way the show runs, they have a say on the how the show will plan out whether it be phoning in to vote someone out or having an opinion by commenting on a website they are still involved. They can change the way the show is and it gives them a chance to enjoy it more because they have chosen the outcome.

Advantage: Audiences get to choose what they see making them want to watch it more, as its things that they want. It is also a chance for the company to make money of the viewers through phoning and texting, most of the time this money is used to give out prices or actually fund the show.
Another advantage is that the viewers will feel ownership as if they have created this it is something that they will invest in because they have had their own say in it.

Disadvantage: Audiences sometimes do not have the best ideas when it comes to making a programme they will sometimes manipulate the situation to see a lot more drama, making arguments between contestants.
it also limits the structure and control of the programmes, once the viewers are allowed to dictate to the planning on the show they will expect that all the time, if this is then suddenly slowed down or stopped they will loose all the viewers.

There has been a media stir with the fact that a certain X Factor finalist should not be there, is name is Wagner and he can not sing, there has been reports on this that there are certain Facebook group that have launched a campaign to keep him in despite him having no talent.
People are trying to keep him in , they think without him the show would become too tense and after all it is a entertainment show.
Tony Cowell wrote that "I was with Simon when Rage Against the Machine went head-to-head with The X Factor for Christmas number one. He didn't lose any sleep over it".

It is seemed to be that even though you can watch this show an be a passive audience as well as an active by voting and deciding who you want to be gone, there is some people out there that want to interact with the show by deliberately changing the point of it all, if they keep voting for Wagner then he will get through and other good acts will be voted out, this is not the aim of the show, the aim is to find a bunch of talented people and make them fight it out for the  winner.

 There has been many Facebook groups made to support the X Factor finalist who has not been saved for the 6th time from being voted off the show, on the other hand there have been a lot of Facebook groups been made to suggest that he needs to go.
with this happening and him getting saved every week the shows viewers are causing up raw as good contestants are leaving the show and they think its not fair , but enough people must be voting for him to get through.