Governing the Living Room — from Morality to Ethics

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Sharmaine (S, 11, P): I watch CBBC. When that’s finished I watch Neighbours. Then by six, ‘cause it finishes at six, I watch Home and Away and then about half an hour on to an hour then Emmerdale’s on so also I watch that. (…) Everybody’s talking about EastEnders as well, (…) everybody’s like ‘oh yeah did you see EastEnders last night’ and all that. (…) ‘Cause I’ve grown — I’ve grown up with like, going downstairs, watching EastEnders, cause my mum, my mum absolutely loves it. My mum loves Emmerdale. And she used to turn it on to Coronation Street when that was on, for us. So we would watch that. And we’d also watch like erm silly things like The Simpsons and that …