Television genres Television genres Anthology drama is a popular form of early television programming that brought live dramatic theater to television; influenced by stage plays, anthologies offered new teleplays, casts, directors, writers, and sets from week to week. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anthology drama"
The British Broadcasting Corporation has been a producer and broadcaster of television drama since even before it had an officially established television broadcasting network in the United Kingdom. As with any major broadcast network, drama forms an important part of its schedule, with many of the BBC's top-rated programmes being from this genre. ...more on Wikipedia about "BBC television drama"
Fantaserye or telefantasya is a genre of Philippine television show with fantastic themes like birdmen or superheroes. A recent boom in the genre began with ABS-CBN’s series Marina, about mermaids, to which rival station GMA Network responsed with a fantasy spoof named Marinara. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fantaserye"
A makeover is a term applied to changing one's appearance, usually through cosmetics. Makeovers can range from something as simple as a new haircut, to the extreme of cosmetic surgery. ...more on Wikipedia about "Makeover"
Paranormal Television as a genre of popular television broadcasting coul be taken to include both fictional representations of the paranormal, as for example The Ghosts of Motley Hall, Ghostbusters and the associated cartoon series, Scooby Doo or Rentaghost but in this article we are primarily concerned with purportedly factual investigations and their depiction in mainstream and satellite and cable broadcasting. ...more on Wikipedia about "Paranormal television"
Reality television is a genre of television programming which presents unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual (if sometimes contrived) events, and features "ordinary" people over professional actors. Although the genre has existed in some form or another since the early years of television, the current explosion of popularity dates from circa 2000 (particularly from Expedition Robinson). ...more on Wikipedia about "Reality television"
Writer Terry Nation had been one of the formative influences on Doctor Whos popularity, creating the legendary Dalek race for the show's second serial in 1963, and thus assuring much of its early popularity and later longevity. For the rest of the 1960s Nation had concentrated on writing for ITV film series such as The Baron and The Avengers, but in the early 1970s he returned to science fiction, contributing Dalek stories to Doctor Who again from 1973 to 1975 and in 1975 creating his own science-fiction show, Survivors. ...more on Wikipedia about "Science fiction on television"
A science fiction Western is a work of fiction which has elements of both the science fiction and Western genres. Science fiction elements are transported to the American West, in a steampunk fashion. ...more on Wikipedia about "Science fiction Western"
Space Western is a genre of science fiction that transposes themes of American western books and film to a backdrop of futuristic space frontiers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Space western"
Limited budgets and goofy writing hampered many early action series. The 1950s The Adventures of Superman series starring George Reeves - an extension of the popular movie serials - featured very limited and unconvincing special effects but was hugely popular. ...more on Wikipedia about "Superhero live-action television series"
A téléroman ("telenovel") is a French language dramatic television series, similar to a soap opera or a Spanish language telenovela, in Quebec. ...more on Wikipedia about "Téléroman"
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