How far does Cuffs adapt police drama genre to fit its family audience at 8pm on BBC1? [15]

Cuffs adapts to its showing times in many ways so that the younger viewers do not see unsuitable things for there age, this is the watershed.

One of the ways is how there is minimal violence and when there is we do not see any gory pictures. This is done as we do not want younger viewers knowing lots about violence. They may also not like the sight of graphic photos. However, this does not change the conventions of a the police genre as there is still plenty of action out of the movie as we see police chases and them dealing with the public under pressure, this still creates tense moments which engages the viewer.

Another way that Cuffs adapts to its timing is the language used. In Cuffs we rarely ever hear bad language, this is for obvious reasons such as we don`t want to encourage young children into using bad language. Once again the producers find a solution to this so we can still see the characters emotions this is done by changing the tone in the different peoples voices, an example is to express anger; instead of swearing they may have a louder tone this could also be followed up by an outburst of possible violence e.g slamming a door or breaking an object.

Furthermore there is no scenes of nudity or sex, this also is because of the time of the showing. However alternatives are made like how instead we can see how to characters share a bond by the emotions shown when the two characters are shown and if they are both normally on camera together it suggests to us that they have a strong connection.

To conclude Cuffs adapts a fair amount to the showing time, however it finds other ways to make the viewer interested, but also stay in the police movie genre