Genre

Genre

Soap opera- Soap opera is a television genre that features a drama series which focuses on the lives of different characters emotional relationships and how the cope with everyday life problems acted out in the soap opera. An example of a soap opera is Coronation Street.

Crime drama- Crime drama is also a television genre except a crime drama focuses on a main hero/character that is investigating or is going to commit the crime. Crime drama usually involves some sort of criminal activity such as bank robberies, murders and assault, for example Dexter is a crime drama.

Hospital drama- Hospital drama is a genre that involves events which happen within a hospital, this can involve surgery, life and even death of family members, an example of a hospital drama is Scrubs.

Lifestyle- Life style genre is a television show about how people live weather that be a rich life style like the house wives of Orange county or a poor life style like the people who live on benefit street, or even a party life style like people from the only ways Essex. Life style genres usually cover economic level, social class, job, attitudes, habit’s and standards.

Makeover- Makeover genres are self explanatory where people get a new look, they usually start off with someone who wants to improve themselves in looks and by the end of the show they will be looking beautiful/handsome. An example of this show is 10 years younger.

Consumer- Consumer genre is a television show that try to sell you their products which they are advertising on TV, for example the shopping channel offer a wide range of shows where you can shop from and shows such as watch dogs which provides you with information on a product and helps you reconsider before purchasing the product or services, another example would be the gadget show who tell you about products which you will then go out and buy.

Sitcoms- Sitcoms are comedy shows that involves a comedian telling the live audience jokes to make them laugh. For example Russell Howard is a sitcom show where he makes jokes about society.

Chat shows- A chat show is a genre where people talk about a specific topic that may intrest the viewer, as the show goes on the people on the show will give out their own opinions and talk to one another. An example of a chat show is loose women.

Reality- reality is a show that is based on the real world and real time with live events, for example Celebrity Big brother is a reality show.

Comedy- Comedy genre is a show/film that is bound to make you laugh with jokes and funny events, for example Happy Gilmore is classic comedy film.

TV series- A TV series is a bunch of different programs that link together into a series, one after the other and usually follow a story line, an example of a TV series is the walking dead.

Serial single drama- Serial single drama is a broadcast which is only shown once and doesn’t follow the story of the drama show, it can be based on a true event. For example Ghost adventures record a live event and only show the event once and do not continue with the same location.