TV drama

TV drama, or television drama and television drama series in the United States, known as Dramatic programming in the UK, 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, but there is no clear distinction.

In the context of anime, the term is usually used to refer to live-action television shows, but not live-action theatrical films or movies. Also, many manga are adapted into TV drama series.

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.

Anime that were adapted into TV drama

 * Cowboy Bebop
 * Saint Girls Square Academy
 * Hell Girl
 * Higurashi When They Cry
 * Yatterman (spinoff TV drama Doronjo)

Manga that were adapted into anime and TV drama

 * Bad Boys
 * Boys Over Flowers
 * Detective School Q
 * ERASED
 * From Today, It's My Turn!!
 * Future Diary
 * Gangster Teacher
 * Given
 * Great Teacher Onizuka
 * Honey and Clover
 * Horimiya
 * Kakegurui: Compulsive Gambler
 * The Kindaichi Case Files
 * Laid-Back Camp
 * Nobunaga Concerto
 * Nodame Cantabile
 * O Maidens in Your Savage Season
 * Ouran High School Host Club
 * ''Playful Kiss
 * Police in a Pod
 * Princess Jellyfish
 * Prison School
 * ''Rent-A-Girlfriend (July 2022)
 * Scum's Wish
 * The Way of the Househusband
 * xxxHolic
 * Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches

Manga that were adapted into TV drama

 * Absolute Boyfriend
 * Are You Ready? Hey You Girl! 
 * Ashi-Girl
 * As Much As Possible, I Love You
 * Alice in Borderland
 * Ally of Justice
 * An Incurable Case of Love
 * Approach of Death
 * A Story to Read When You First Fall in Love
 * Before We Knew It
 * Bloody Monday
 * Coffee & Vanilla
 * Do Not Say Mystery
 * The Drops of God
 * Everyone's Getting Married
 * Favoritism of the Gods
 * Five
 * Flower and The Beast
 * From 5 to 9
 * The Full-Time Wife Escapist
 * Goldfish Wife
 * Good Morning Call
 * Hammer Session!
 * Hana-Kimi: For You in Full Blossom
 * Happy Marriage?!
 * Heartbroken Chocolatier
 * Hey Sensei, Don't You Know?
 * I Give My First Love to You
 * I'm Taking off Work Today.
 * I Won't Runaway Anyway
 * In-house Marriage Honey
 *  Neither Male Nor Female
 * JIN
 * Junior High School Diary
 * Kakafukaka
 * Kounodori
 * The Leisure Club
 * The Liar and His Lover
 * Liar Game
 * Life
 * Light of the Firefly
 * Limit
 * Love and Fortune
 * Love Phantom
 * Love's Reach
 * Mairunovich
 * Marry Me!
 * Million Yen Women
 * Misaki Number One!!
 * Missions of Love
 * Mr. Delinquent and Miss Glasses
 * My Brother Loves Me Too Much
 * My Girl
 * My Little Lover
 * My Love Mix-Up!
 * One Room of Happiness
 * Only Just Married
 * Otomen
 * Ouroboros - I'm near to judging the police -
 * Perfect Crime
 * Perfect World
 * Please Love the Useless Me
 * Popular Indie Creator Nekoyashiki is Making His Yearning for Approval Worse
 * Promise Cinderella
 * Rinko Wants to Try
 * Rookies
 * Second Edition Occurrence!
 * Siren
 * Something's Wrong With Us
 * Sprout
 * Stepmother and Daughter's Blues
 * Sumika Sumire
 * Suppli
 * Switch Girl!!
 * Takane & Hana
 * This Guy is the Biggest Mistake in My Life
 * Tokyo Tarareba Girls
 * Tramps Like Us
 * Veterinarian Dolittle
 * Voice Love
 * What Did You Eat Yesterday?
 * Yankee-kun and the White Cane Girl
 * You and I on the G-String