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. 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

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

Manga that were adapted into TV drama

 * Absolute Boyfriend
 * Alice in Borderland
 * An Incurable Case of Love
 * A Story to Read When You First Fall in Love
 * Before We Knew It
 * Bloody Monday
 * Coffee & Vanilla
 * Favoritism of the Gods
 * Flower and The Beast
 * From 5 to 9
 * The Full-Time Wife Escapist
 * Good Morning Call
 * Hana-Kimi: For You in Full Blossom
 * Happy Marriage?!
 * Heartbroken Chocolatier
 * Hey Sensei, Don't You Know?
 * I'm Taking off Work Today.
 * In-house Marriage Honey
 * JIN
 * Junior High School Diary
 * Kakafukaka
 * The Leisure Club
 * Liar Game
 * Life
 * Light of the Firefly
 * Love and Fortune
 * Love Phantom
 * Marry Me!
 * Million Yen Women
 * 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
 * Please Love the Useless Me
 * Rinko Wants to Try
 * Rookies
 * Siren
 * Something's Wrong With Us
 * Sprout
 * Suppli
 * Switch Girl!!
 * Takane & Hana
 * Tramps Like Us
 * Voice Love
 * What Did You Eat Yesterday?
 * Yankee-kun and the White Cane Girl
 * You and I on the G-String