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This article examines how production design functions as a mechanism of cultural adaptation in transnational television formats through a case study of MasterChef Spain . It argues that innovation emerges not only through technological or narrative change, but through the spatial reconfiguration of televisual experience. Through comparative analysis with the UK, US and Australian editions, the article demonstrates how MasterChef Spain reshapes the global format according to the expressive and ensemble-oriented conventions of Spanish television and theatrical traditions. Production design therefore emerges as a central site through which global formats are culturally re-signified and affectively anchored.
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Critical Studies in Television publishes articles that draw together divergent disciplines and different ways of thinking, to promote and advance television as a distinct academic discipline. It welcomes contributions on any aspect of television—production studies and institutional histories, audience and reception studies, theoretical approaches, conceptual paradigms and pedagogical questions. It continues to invite analyses of the compositional principles and aesthetics of texts, as well as contextual matters relating to both contemporary and past productions. CST also features book reviews, dossiers and debates. The journal is scholarly but accessible, dedicated to generating new knowledge and fostering a dynamic intellectual platform for television studies.