Monday

Genre in Television Programming


  • from french/origin latin word for kind/class 
  • all have awareness of genre
  • we rely on. helps us categorise and classify
  • pick up from things we've read/ seen or been told
  • become highly conditioned to expect certain things 
  • create stereotype
  • become highly critical/reject or distrust anything that doesn't follow this norm , if it fails to follow the genre conventions
  • genre:
  • kids
  • comedy
  • drama
  • entertainment
  • factual
  • films 
  • learning
  • lifestyle
  • music
  • news
  • sport
  • religion
  1. sub genre - e.g food is sub genre of lifestyle
  2. hybrid - e.g a children's factual program 
  • genre drama - sub genre:
  1. medical drama
  2. crime drama
  3. fantasy drama
  4. teen drama
  5. science fiction drama
  6. comedy drama
  7. continuing dramas - Eastenders
  8. Period/ Historical Dramas
  • one-off
  • Series - Episodes
  • Serial - continuing - Holby City
Verisimilitude - a creation of a "real" world in which you can believe in.

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