What is a TV Drama ?

Television dramas can be defined as programmes which follows a certain style, such as following the same characters through out the show, so the audience can relate to them and feel they know them. They are usually in familiar backdrops such as hospitals and streets to make it seem realistic even thought it is usually filmed in sets, this is called versimilitude. The stories told in the programee are also very important as a storyline can run through a whole season of a programme or only for one episode. TV dramas can be put into different categories depending on the type of characteristics used on that programme.
Some of these catergories include:

- skins, shamless and inbetweeners.
As they all have a similar teenage audience, about young people in Britain.
-24, lost and heros
This has a different audience with a wider range of people, they are all also american dramas, shown like short movies, with losts of different stories in each edipode.
-Eastenders, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks.
These are all British soaps following the lives of people in different settings around Britain.