Abstract
Annette Hill's Restyling Factual TV will be an influential book both in the sphere of television studies and beyond. It engages with the contemporary ‘restyling’ of factual television – a process which has seen hybridity emerge as the ‘distinctive feature of factuality’ (p. 212). As Hill explains: Restyling Factual Television is about understanding genres in relation to each other and in relation to popular audiences. It takes as a starting point the idea that factual television is being restyled, that various kinds of news, current affairs, documentary and popular factual genres are part of a turbulent time in broadcasting. … Popular factual genres are not self-contained, stable and knowable, they migrate, mutate and replicate. Significantly, they cross over into existing factual genres, with the cross-pollination of styles increasing the pace of change in news, current affairs or documentary (p. 2).
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