The International Journal of Digital Television has published a special issue on Television Formats.
A variety of topics from the field of Television Format research are covered in the contributions by Jean K. Chalaby and Andrea Esser, Joe F. Khalil, Martin N. Ndlela, Michael Keane and Joy Danjing Zhang, Wenna Zeng and Colin Sparks, Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed and Ethel Pis Diez, Paul Torre, and Tom Evens and Andrei Richter.
All special issue articles can be found here: