Wednesday 15 December 2010

What is TV Drama?

The genre of TV drama is very large, and splits into all different aspects of it.
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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