Examples of dramas are:
- Corination Street
- Eastenders
- Emmerdale
- Neighbours
- Doctors
- Holby City
- One Tree Hill
- The Bill
- The Accused
Examples of TV dramas which features a combination of both drama and other genre are:
- Misfits - comedy, drama
- Doctor Who - sci-fi, drama
- Skins - comedy, drama
- Being Human - fantasty, sci-fi, drama
- Ugly Betty - comedy, romance, drama
- Desperate Housewives -comedy, romance, drama
- Sarah Jane Adventures - sci-fi. childrens drama
- Holby City - hospital drama
- The Tutors - historic, costume drama
The word genre bascially means a 'kind' or 'type' of something, such as drama, sci-fi, comedy, romance, horror etc. TV programmes often use this to categorise shows into things they have in common with each other. These genres can break down into sub-genres, such as a drama can break down into a crime drama. Drama is the most popular genre and they first began in the 1950s on ITV when it started broadcasting. Genre can be broken down into sub-genres also; costume drama's, childrens dramas, soaps, crime, hosital, and historic.
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