What is the biggest trend in TV dramas?

What is the biggest trend in TV dramas?

Pamela Douglas (Screenwriter) gives expert video advice on: What are the lastest trends in TV dramas?; Why are more screenwriters writing for television? and more...

We're in a time of change. In the genre area or in the franchise area, you only need to look at westerns and how they were eons ago, where there were certain very specific expectations of what the rules of a western story would be, and compare that to Deadwood, to see how far you can go with the reinterpretation of a traditional form. That's really what we're seeing in most of television today: certain categories are still being used - detective, medical, family, high school, to a lesser extent journalism, political shows - but we're seeing them all reinterpreted.