Representation and Gender in Sitcoms

This is an excellent link for analysing sitcoms using the key criteria - representation and gender. Ben Paulley's pages help students understand how they need to tackle the questions in the example.

http://www.benpaulley.co.uk/sections/teaching/as_media/handouts/gender%20and%20Television%20Sitcom%20bp.doc

Sitcom: What It Is, How It Works

By R.F. Taflinger from 1996. Taflinger's examples are US comedies but the same analysis can be applied to UK ones.

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~taflinge/sitexam.html

Taflinger's main page for sitcoms
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~taflinge/sitcom.html