Genre in Television Programming

The word Genre comes from the French word- Kind of class

If you haven't been somewhere you can can what its like from what you've seen through the media- Eg Luxury Hotel.

You stereotype certain people such as a Secretary you'd think a woman, shirt, blazer and a skirt. 

There are many types of genre such as:

• Children's
• Comedy 
• Drama and soap
• Entertainment 
• Factual 
• Films
• Learning 
• Lifestyle and leisure 
• Music
• News and current affairs 
• Religions and ethics 
• Sport 

Sub Genre: There they are broken down in to e.g.

Lifestyle and leisure- Cooking, DIY, Homes under the hammer 

Drama- Period drama, Crime drama

Factual- Reality shows

Hybid: Then there is a cross over of Genre such as

Horrible History's- Children's, Comedy, Learning 
Tom and Jerry- Children's, Comedy

Drama examples:

Medical- Holby City, Casualty 

Crime/ legal- NCIS, Silent Witness, X Files, Broadchurch  

Period/ Costume- White Queen, Downton Abbey, The Tudors, Dracula

Science Fiction- Doctor Who 

Soap- Eastenders, Coronation Street

Comedy Drama- Mad Dogs

Teen- Misfits, Waterloo Road, Inbetweeners, Grange Hill