"The audience is expected to accept the situation defined by the program format as credible, and to concede as "natural" the rules and conventions..." Eerily s

"The audience is expected to accept the situation defined by the program format as credible, and to concede as "natural" the rules and conventions..." Eerily similar to Michel Chion's and Gilles Deleuze's formulation of the audio-visual contract, that the audience; - agree to temporarily suspend disbelief - allow the sounds and images to synthesise through introspective rationalisation Like Mulder, we "want to believe"