The different ways in which audiences respond to Mad Men - need to finish

The hit television series Mad Men has been clever in the ways in which it targets it's audience and gains audience response. Since airing in *, / Mad Men has received many audience responses which have encouraged and introduced many more audience members.
As Mad Men is a show that targets a niche and active audience, it's audience have responded to the programme in several different ways.
One aspect of Mad Men that has

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Audience Respone to Lost

Lost is an American drama series that aired for the first time in the US on the 22nd September 2004. It has been nominated for a variety of different awards including 54 Primetime Emmy awards, winning 11, 48 Saturn awards, winning 13, 33 Teen Choice Awards, 12 Golden Reel awards, winning 5, 8 Satellite awards, winning 1, 7 Golden Globe Awards, winning 1, 6 Writers Guild of America awards, winning 1, 5 Directors Guild or America awards, 2 NAACP Image wards, winning 1, 2 Screen Actors Guild Awards, winning 1 and a BAFTA award. 

Amongst the wins for the series are a Primetime Emmy award for 'Outstanding Drama Series', a Golden Globe award for 'Best Television Series - Drama', a Screen Actors Guild Award for 'Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series' and a Peabody award.

The series has an ensemble cast and several different Lost actors have received acting award nominations. Terry O'Quinn and Michael Emerson are the only actors to win Emmy Awards while Matthew Fox has been nominated for eighteen individual awards (winning three), the most of any cast members, Evangeline Lilly is second with fifteen nominations. "Pilot" is the most nominated single episode of the series, receiving nominations for fifteen different awards, winning six, including four Emmy Awards. "Through The Looking Glass" is the second most nominated episode, with nine. "The End" received the most Emmy nominations for a single episode with eight, winning one. Lost has been nominated for over 200 awards and has won 57.

intended target audience of Lost

The television series Lost a wide range of conventions which attract its targeted mainstream audience. A mainstream audience is one that appeals and interests a wide range of viewers, form different ages, genders, classes and ethnicities.

One of the main conventions which help give Lost such a wide mainstream audience is the ensemble cast that it presents. An ensemble cast means that the majority of the cast are assigned roughly equal amounts of screen time, making each of their character roles equally as important as one another. Ensemble casts also include many different varieties of characters, from different ages, genders, classes and ethnicities, meaning that the majority of Lost's mainstream audience can identify with at least one of the characters. 

Another convention that attracts a wide, mainstream audience is the way Lost combines escapism and relatable plots. Being set on a mystical island, and set away from everyday environments, Lost can gratify the audience with escapism by diverting them from reality and problems, enabling a preferred reading.  However, the non linear narrative, flash backs and flash forwards provide relatable issues and plots that will provide alternative gratifications such as enforcing personal identity. Combining these two mainstream narrative conventions causes Lost to reach to an even wider audience as some viewers may enjoy the feeling of escapism, where others may want to able to familiarise themselves with the more realistic plots such as flash backs of characters lives previous to the plane crash they were involved in.

One major convention that Lost includes, which helps reach out to a wide, mainstream audience is the enigma codes placed in the storyline. Enigma codes control what the audience see or know. They produce questions in the audiences mind and then proceed to solve, whilst gaining the attention and interest of the audience. In the series 1, episode 2 of Lost, there are many enigma codes placed in the text that question the storyline, such as a pair of handcuffs being found, a letter being read by Sawyer and secret mentioned. However only one enigma code is answered in this episode, causing a mainstream audience to want to continue to watch Lost in the hoe that these questions will soon be answered. These enigma codes, along with the carefully constructed use of the score to control audiences emotions are a large part of how Lost targets a mainstream audience.