TV drama
Scripted television series
A TV drama is a television series featuring ongoing storylines, character development, and emotional or serious themes—distinguished from sitcoms, reality shows, and episodic procedurals.
The term covers everything from prestige cable series to daytime soap operas: She's been bingeing that new TV drama everyone's talking about.
- soap operaSerialized melodramatic broadcast drama
- pilot episodeFirst episode testing viability
- actingTemporarily holding position
- anthologyCollected literary works volume
- serializedReleased in sequential parts
crime · character development · Golden Globes · procedural · cinematography · casting · cliffhanger endings · episodic · prime time · streaming platforms · streaming service · Emmy Awards · emotional resonance · network television · Nielsen ratings · showrunners · limited series · mini-series
- dramaacting, playwright, character study, acting class, character development
- TV dramaepisode, series, season, serial, pilot episode
- literature and televisionadaptation, screenplay, teleplay, novel, script
- TV actingensemble cast, cameos, recurring roles, supporting roles, pilot episodes
- TV terminologylive broadcast, screenwriting, TV ratings, primetime, streaming series
- TV moviesTV movie, TV movies, telefilms, made-for-TV, telefilm
TV dramasitcom
Episodic TV comedy series
comedy series · sketch comedy · variety show · stand-up special · game show
TV dramadocumentary
Factual film about reality
reality TV · reality show · news program · docuseries · documentary series
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