This week join Jonathan, Andrew, and Steve as we take a deep dive in the 1980s TV program Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. We also provide context for the US audience relationship to watching the wealthy on TV both before and after Lifestyles. We also discuss the rise of gourmet culture, how entertainment media frames issues of class, and why the 1980s were not coincidental for Lifestyles rise to success.
Here is a link to Diana Kendall’s Framing Class: link
Here is a link to Larry Samuel’s Rich: link
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- Murrow’s Person to Person
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- Robin Leach as he appeared during Lifestyles TV run
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- The standard logo from Lifestyles heyday
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- The Onion’s sarcastic reaction to the new plethora of game shows after Regis Philbin’s success with Millionaire.
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- Lil Wayne shows off what’s in his refrigerator for MTV’s spiritual successor to Lifestyles, Cribs.
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- Early 2000s version of US fascination of watching the wealthy on TV.
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- One of many examples of gourmet culture in the US. Bloomberg’s tongue-in-cheek look at gourmet dog food.
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- a typical shoot for programming on Wealth TV.
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- Behind the scenes as Wealth TV broadcasts a boxing match.
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