Exporting TV programmes is big business. Today, lots of countries create TV shows and ____ them to other countries. In Britain, this is a ____ industry, and the country exports lots of ____ TV shows to many different countries. Talent shows like The X Factor, dramas like Skins and sitcoms like Mr Bean all started ____ in Britain, but are now popular all over the world. But the USA still ____ the way and a lot of the world’s most popular programmes come from the States.CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a ____ drama about forensic detectives. In 2011, a survey – which measured ____ in 65 different countries – found the show had 63 million ____ worldwide. This made it the most-watched TV show on the ____! In fact, the show is so popular it is having an ____ on forensic science in the real world. The number of people studying the ____ at university is higher than ever before and lots of people are ____ it as a career. But the world of CSI is very different to the real world of forensic science. On CSI, the forensic scientists do all the work. The same character ____ the evidence, analyses it in the lab and even questions the ____. This helps to create a gripping plot, and an ____ script combined with special effects can make it ____, but it is very unrealistic.In the real world, one person doesn’t have to do everything. Forensic scientists ____ in different areas. This group, for example, are examining the crime ____. To do this they must wear special suits and they mustn’t touch the ____ until they have photographs of everything in the room. They then take the evidence to the ____ where another group of scientists study the objects and try to find DNA evidence. None of these forensic scientists have to ____ suspects and they don’t have to prosecute ____. Their job is to collect and ____ the evidence. Thanks to programmes like CSI, people know a lot more about ____ science, but not everything is ____. After all, people make these TV shows to entertain, not always to ____. And it’s usually this entertainment ____ that makes TV exports so popular. The more ____ a programme is, the more countries ____ the world will want to buy it. Today, many TV exports like CSI and The X Factor enjoy ____ success, and people from lots of different countries and ____ can watch the same TV shows. So whether we’re in the USA, Britain or Dubai, we can all share the same ____.

3 The CSI effect (Script)

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