In recent years, among all kinds of TV programs in China, legal programs have sprung up suddenly, which has an increasing influence on the propaganda work of the party and government, the TV market and society. Many legal programs such as CCTV's Legal Report and Social Jingwei, Beijing TV's Legal Progress, Shandong TV's Morality and Legal System, and Shanghai TV's Collection of Cases have become brand-name programs of their TV stations, and their ratings and audience satisfaction have hit record highs. Law and You, Me and He by Heilongjiang Satellite TV, Citizen and Law by Shanxi Satellite TV, Legal Time by Henan Satellite TV and Social Archives by Shaanxi Satellite TV were launched one after another, and they became the leaders of professional channels in a short time. CCTV also changed the original western channel into a social legal channel, which was operated by the international head office. The legal programs of Sichuan, Yunnan and Chongqing TV stations have also become strong programs in prime time. Since 1995, China Radio and Television Society has formally established the Legal Program Committee, and the legal program has its first professional organization, which confirms the legal status of legal programs as a special category of TV programs. In July 2002, the directors of legal programs in seven provinces and cities such as Henan, Shanxi, Heilongjiang, Shaanxi, Beijing, Qingdao and Changsha initiated the establishment of "Legal Channel Directors Forum" and "Seven Provinces and Cities Legal Program Cooperation Meeting", and conducted in-depth research and discussion on the current situation, policies and future development trends of legal TV programs. Through the window of TV, TV workers let the law enter the lives of millions of people, and let people get the popularization and improvement of legal knowledge through entertaining, convincing people with reason and convincing people with emotion. The rapid development of legal programs benefits from the environment of governing the country according to law and building a socialist country ruled by law, and it is also convenient for national television stations to grasp the opportunity and propaganda orientation, and push the development of legal programs into the fast lane in time. However, with the rapid development of legal programs, a series of theoretical problems such as how to make them develop healthily, efficiently and continuously with the times have not been fully studied. Therefore, this paper discusses the present situation, expanding space and existing problems of legal programs. According to the statistics of the Listening Center of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television in August 2000, 33 of the 45 satellite channels in China have set up legal programs. At present, legal programs have become the mainstream of China TV stations. Take the law as the criterion, record the wonderful moments of China's legal life with the lens, examine social life from the dual perspectives of law and morality, examine emotion and reason, emotion and law, right and wrong, show the social contradictions in China during the transition period, seek legal solutions and processes, and at the same time give a profound moral judgment to make it more intriguing and thought-provoking, create a strong legal atmosphere in the whole society, and arouse the public's awareness of self-discipline, behavior and law-abiding. In the process of promoting the construction of legal system, the concept of characteristic TV media in China has been enriched, and at the same time, the space of TV communication has been greatly expanded. Every TV station's legal column has its own characteristics. Taking several TV stations as examples, this paper analyzes the characteristics and present situation of column content. Cctv legal report:199965438+10.2, CCTV launched a brand-new legal program "legal report", which adopted the program style of case statement, public participation and expert comment. The purpose of the column is to popularize law, supervise law enforcement, promote legislation and do practical things for the people. On August 15, 2002, the expanded column launched a loud and pragmatic new slogan: recording the details of China's legal process, making the whole program more tortuous, more detailed in characterization and more detailed and profound in legal interpretation. There is a case in this column almost every day. Through case introduction and legal expert comments, legal knowledge is explained in simple terms, which provides a platform for ordinary people to learn and use easily. Sa Beining, the host, won the love and recognition of the people all over the country with his unique hosting style and rich legal knowledge, and won the ratings for this non-prime-time column. The legal time and space of Liaoning TV Station aims at "tracking legal hot spots and popularizing legal knowledge", and looks at hot events and social phenomena that people pay attention to from a legal perspective. This column is divided into seven sections: on-the-spot tracking: recording the process of an ongoing case by documentary means, highlighting a strong sense of the scene; Clear and unannounced visits: make clear and unannounced visits to illegal phenomena and investigate and deal with them jointly with relevant departments; Wanted category: select some unresolved cases with wanted criminals, convey on-the-spot analysis to the audience through TV means, let the audience participate, provide case clues and help the police solve the case; Case-based statement: take all kinds of cases as the starting point, tell stories in a narrative way, make sense appear in cases, interpret the connotation of law in contradictions and disputes, and achieve the purpose of popularizing the law; Follow-up investigation: through the follow-up investigation of some cases that have been unresolved for a long time or are not "transparent", the investigation results are objectively and fairly displayed; Warning category: with some thought-provoking and warning education cases, carry out all-round excavation, reveal the psychological course of crime through interviews with criminals, so as to achieve the purpose of warning people; Reply category: joint law enforcement departments investigate and understand the problems encountered by the audience, reply the results to the audience, solve the practical difficulties of the masses, and invite experts to analyze and discuss the programs that the masses pay close attention to and reflect strongly in the studio. Morality and Legal System of Shandong TV Station is the longest legal program in China. Since the establishment of 1986, it has won many national awards. In order to truly shoulder the social responsibility of popularizing the law and interpreting the law, TV legal programs must seek a newer survival situation and gain greater development space on the existing basis in by going up one flight of stairs. Based on this, this column has made great efforts in development. First of all, they have established a profound concept of communication, are good at grasping the most basic legal relationship in life, jump out of the misunderstanding of simply exposing the criminal process and expressing novel details, lead the report and discussion of the case to the display of the deep economic background, national cultural psychology and even the living conditions of social individuals, link the law with the macro-environment in the period of social change, find out the characteristics from similar cases, dig out the typical essence behind the case, and then put forward constructive opinions or suggestions in connection with the whole legal system construction. In this way, a process from "face" to "point" and then from "point" to "face" is realized, which makes the program more profound and stereoscopic. Secondly, the topic highlights humanistic care. Because law involves all aspects of people's lives, a mature legal program should also be fully oriented to society, and deeply observe and think about objects of different levels and different identity backgrounds, civil disputes and marginal legal issues. Thirdly, vividly dig out the case, through the essence behind the case, through the simple way of "telling stories", give the audience reference and thinking. From a case itself to the interpretation and publicity of jurisprudence, it has truly achieved "entertaining and entertaining". Henan TV Station's "Legal Moment" has its own special features with a brand-new concept and personalized style. Pay attention to the timeliness of news: In order to highlight the advantages of quickness and timeliness, we will report "Catch the First Crime Scene" exclusively every day to win the audience to the maximum extent and improve the ratings. Establish a sense of the overall situation: based on the whole province, facing the whole country, pay attention to the legal system dynamics outside the province with a global vision, and dig deep into the bill resources in the province. Breaking the conventional editing concept: instead of introducing cases and expert comments, we adopt the inverted pyramid thinking structure of "fragment presentation" Pay attention to the most influential legal phenomena and cases in the whole country, especially in Henan, the latest prescriptions and accurate and distinct legal perspectives. They broadcast with "close-up" information, choose correct legal views through the internet and important legal newspapers and periodicals, and take facts and opinions as the basis. For example, the corruption case of officials in a province not only introduces the case, but also interviews the parties by phone or sends a film crew to shoot on the spot. Try to use "fragmented presentation" to find the "latest" reporting point for cases with poor timeliness but high legal content, such as "murder case filed six months ago, which was successfully tried in court recently", starting with the trial and then reporting the case. This reporting mode is different from the traditional legal reporting mode, and the focus of reporting has shifted from the original "emphasizing process description" to the full presentation of the "cross-section" with the most legal content, reducing the rigid preaching elements. In terms of material selection, Chongqing TV Station's Clapping Story focuses on selecting cases with tortuous plots, winning with pictures and attracting the attention of the audience; In terms of narrative methods, we strive to "keep the door open", the narrative structure is progressive, suspenseful, interlocking and untied one by one, highlighting the narrative characteristics of TV special topics in panoramic reports, striving to master the first material of the case, reproducing some key and little-known details by deductive methods, and forming a new second point of view by combining processing; In terms of formal structure, documentary programs and talk shows are integrated. Documentary programs track cases, directly attack cases, tell legal stories, and paraphrase key details of conflicting and suspenseful cases, highlighting the vividness of the process to meet the audience's viewing needs. Then, on the basis of the audience's full understanding of the facts of the case and certain emotional accumulation, the ideological conflict and suspense parts are expanded and extended. Introduce key figures, authoritative legal persons and public figures in the case into the studio. While analyzing their inner world and paying attention to their fate, let them participate in the rational and legal analysis and discussion with the audience, which fully highlights the characteristics of documentary-style witness cases, story-telling methods to unite the audience, continuous arrangement of chapters, and wonderful dialogue in the studio to interpret topics.