Television genres

nonfictional motion picture

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genre of fiction

genre of television/radio drama

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type of broadcast show centered around conversation

right|250px|thumb|Vida Alves and Walter Forster on [[Sua Vida Me Pertence (Rede Tupi, Brazil, 1951), the first telenovela in television history]] A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word is a portmanteau of tele (for "television") and novela (meaning "novel"). Similar drama genres around the world include dizi (Turkey), serial (India), teleserye (Philippines), lakorn (Thailand), '' (Italy), téléroman (Canada, specifically Quebec), K-drama (South Korea), J-drama (Japan), C-drama (China) and '' (Indonesia).

genre of television programming that documents unscripted situations and actual occurrences

genre of theatre, film, and television

type of radio and television program where contestants compete for prizes

block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for television programming

thumb|upright=1.1|Lobby card for David Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986), an example of neo-noir. Neo-noir is a film genre from the 1970s, in the era of New Hollywood, which is primarily associated with the subversion and visual style of classic film noir tropes, adapting the themes of 1940s and 1950s American film noir for contemporary audiences, often with vibrant colors and high-contrast, more graphic depictions of violence or sexuality, thematic motifs, and nonlinear narrative or editing.

genre of fiction

drama fiction work of art set in, or reminiscent of, an earlier time period

A mockumentary (a portmanteau of mock and documentary) is a type of film or television programme depicting fictional events, but presented as a documentary. Mockumentaries are often used to analyse or comment on current events and issues in a satirical way by using a fictional setting, or to parody the documentary form itself. One of the most well known examples of the modern time is The Office. The term originated in the 1960s but was popularised in the mid-1990s when This Is Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner used it in interviews to describe that film.

'''''' ( , ) is a genre of Chinese fiction and low fantasy concerning the adventures of martial artists in ancient China. Although is traditionally a form of historical fantasy literature, its popularity has caused it to be adapted for such diverse art forms as Chinese opera, manhua, television dramas, films, donghua, and video games. It forms part of popular culture in many Chinese-speaking communities around the world. Although they are commonly described as a subgenre of martial arts movies, according to Hong Kong film director, producer, and movie writer Ronny Yu, wuxia movies are not to b

television genre characterized by a series of specialty acts such as music, dance, comedy, magic, acrobatics and ventriloquism

Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television and film which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events. It is described as a hybrid of documentary and drama and "a fact-based representation of real event".

episodic form of series of animated works

radio or television series that presents a different story and a different set of characters in each episode

television drama program where events center around a medical environment

type of camera used to make film or video recordings of people without the people recorded noticing

television programs designed for, and marketed to children

type of morning television show

type of comedic talk show, airing late at night

television genre involving food preparation

genre of film, television and theatre

science fiction subgenre which uses the themes and tropes of Westerns within science fiction stories

magazine about current events

structured series of questions and answers led by journalist

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Thai television genre

series of short comedy scenes or vignettes

television station which consists of television programming focused on a single genre

genre combining drama with psychological elements

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use of television programs in the field of distance education

subgenre of the sitcom that is animated rather than live action

subgenre of Chinese fantasy fiction

television channel whose programming is aimed at a general audience

genre of television programming

block of television programming occurring during the late evening and overnight hours

continuing plot in radio and television that unfolds in a sequential episode-by-episode fashion

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theatrical genre

genre of television programming

block of television programming taking place during the late-morning and afternoon on weekdays

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literary and cinematic genre of horror

fiction genre

Ethnofiction is a subfield of ethnography which produces works that introduce art, in the form of storytelling, "thick descriptions and conversational narratives", and even first-person autobiographical accounts, into academic works.

television genre

radio and television programming sub-genre of either legal dramas or reality legal programming

genre of television programming often based on fantasy fiction works

Hong Kong and Cantonese language cultural TV genre

sub-genre of comedic television programs