What is a TV 'drama'?

What is a TV 'drama'?

Pamela Douglas (Screenwriter) gives expert video advice on: What is a TV 'drama'?; What are the various types of dramas?; What is a 'season' for a drama? and more...

A TV drama series is made up of hour long episodes, and delivers a franchise of storytelling which usually falls into one of a few categories: medical, detective, family, sometimes high school. There are other genres that include kinds of science fiction, and family drama is also something else that's very widely defined.