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)
Pokemon (spinoff TV drama Pocket ni Bouken wo Tsumekonde)^[1]

Manga that were adapted into anime and TV drama[]

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Manga that were adapted into TV drama[]