TV drama

Dramatic programming in the UK, or television drama and television drama series in the United States, or teledrama in Sri Lanka, is television program content that is scripted and (normally) fictional along the lines of a traditional drama. This excludes, for example, documentaries, sports television, television news, reality show, game shows, stand-up comedy, and variety shows. Also, by convention, the term is not generally used for situation comedy or soap opera.

In the context of anime, the term is usually used to refer to live-action television shows.

Most dramatic television programming falls within other standard categories such as miniseries, made-for-TV movies or certain rather circumscribed dramatic genres. One major category of dramatic programing, particularly in the Japan, South Korea, and the United States, is Crime Drama.

Some examples of BBC dramatic programming would be Spooks, Killing Eve, Happy Valley, Peaky Blinders, and Sherlock.

Some examples of US television drama series are Breaking Bad, The Wire, The X-Files, Sons of Anarchy, Lost, ER, Twin Peaks, and Mad Men.