What is TV Drama? THE DEFINITION

TV drama is a fictional peice of TV which can be either based on real events are very unlikely ones e.g. 'Life On Mars'. Typical TV drama or in a series but there are one-off episodes of TV drama such as 'Coming Down The Mountain' (a one part drama shown on the BBC). Storylines are normally carried out through the series so it is unlikely for a TV drama to have equilibrium-disruption-equilibrium like sitcom and the typical narrative structure of a film. They normally have an hour long episode and have around 20 episodes in a series.