A Format and Procedure Analysis of Television Game Show: A Case of the Research into a Meaning Construction of Match-Making in the TV Game Show Take Me Out Thailand

Abstract

                    Take Me Out Thailand is a match making game show that has been created to imitate the real world match making through the format and the process of the program. The show format will give the contestants the opportunity to gradually learn the information of the participants little by little to help make decisions. The information provided to the contestants will be more in depth as the show progress. However, when comparing the model to the real world according to A. Schutz's concept, this concept can only imitate the beginning of the relationship of the pair selection. Due to the process of providing negative information in the real world, there is a rare opportunity this will occur in the show. In the real world, there is a chance that the partner will cut off the relationship immediately. Therefore creating the meaning of the partner selection in the Take Me Out Thailand program is not reached at the level of finding "spouse" in the real world But can be used as a guideline for finding "worthy" under the ideology of the middle class only.