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A TV genre is a way of classifying TV programs by format or type of content. Some genres will be shared with other media (such as science fiction); others are specific to television (sitcom, reality TV).
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| x Situation comedy | Cheers |
A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. Today, sitcoms are found almost exclusively on television as one of its dominant narrative forms. Sitcoms usually consist of recurring...
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| Everybody Hates Chris | |||
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| x Reality television |
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MythBusters |
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors. Although the genre has...
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| Backyard Blitz | |||
| The Crocodile Hunter | |||
| Candid Camera | |||
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| x Teen drama | My So-Called Life |
A teen drama is a type of dramatic television series in which the focus is on teenage characters. The genre was relatively non-existent for the first 45 years of television; it came into prominence in the early 1990s. Previously, most series with a...
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| The Tribe | |||
| Instant Star | |||
| Freaks and Geeks | |||
| Degrassi: The Next Generation | |||
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| x News | Thames Valley Tonight |
News is the communication of information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third party or mass audience.
One theory is that news was developed as a special use of the plural form of new in the...
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| CNN Newsroom | |||
| Squawk on the Street | |||
| Fox & Friends | |||
| America's Newsroom | |||
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| x Science fiction |
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Heroes |
Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that aren't necessarily accepted by mainstream science. such as extra-terrestrial life forms, alien worlds, and time travel, often...
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| The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne | |||
| Firefly | |||
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| x Comic science fiction | Mystery Science Theater 3000 |
Comic science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that exploits the genre's conventions for comic effect. Comic science fiction often mocks or satirizes standard SF conventions like alien invasion of earth, interstellar travel, or futuristic...
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| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | |||
| Red Dwarf | |||
| Invader Zim | |||
| Futurama | |||
| x Thriller |
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Monsters |
Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, television, and gaming that includes numerous and often overlapping sub-genres. Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more...
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| Time Bomb 9/11 | |||
| Asian Treasures | |||
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| Losing Gemma | |||
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| x Cooking show | Turn Up the Heat with G. Garvin |
A TV cooking show is a television program that presents the preparation of food, in a kitchen on the studio set. The host of the show, usually a celebrity chef, prepares one or more dishes over the course of the show, taking the viewing audience...
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| 30 Minute Meals | |||
| Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares | |||
| Makuha Ka sa Tikim | |||
| The F-Word | |||
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| x Mockumentary | The Office |
Mockumentary (also known as a mock documentary) is a genre of film and television in which fictitious events are presented in a non-fiction or documentary format; the term can also refer to an individual work within the genre. Such works are often...
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| Operation Good Guys | |||
| The Last Dragon | |||
| Os Aspones | |||
| All Aussie Adventures | |||
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| x Soap opera |
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EastEnders |
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on television or radio. The name "soap opera" stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap...
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| Beverly Hills, 90210 | |||
| Undressed | |||
| The Edge of Night | |||
| Melrose Place | |||
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| x Adventure |
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Supertrain |
Adventure films are a genre of film.
The adventure film reached its peak of popularity in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood, when films such as Captain Blood, The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Mark of Zorro were regularly made with major stars, notably...
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| Emergency +4 | |||
| Blood Ties | |||
| Xena: Warrior Princess | |||
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| x Children's television series | Dora the Explorer |
Children's television series are television programmes designed for, and marketed to children, normally broadcast during the morning and afternoon. They can sometimes run in the early evening, for the children that go to school. The purpose of the...
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| Bagpuss | |||
| Four Feather Falls | |||
| Gumby | |||
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| x Spy-fi | The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. |
Spy-fi is a genre of spy fiction that includes elements of science fiction or fantasy. It often uses a secret agent (solo or in a team) or superspy whose mission is a showcase of science fiction elements such as technology and ideas used for...
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| Alias | |||
| The Avengers | |||
| Barbary Coast | |||
| The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | |||
| x Fantasy |
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Roar |
Fantasy literature is fantasy in written form. Historically speaking, the majority of fantasy works have been literature. Since the 1950s however, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, television programs, graphic...
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| Get a Life | |||
| Super Inggo | |||
| Storm of the Century | |||
| The Last Dragon | |||
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| x Comedy-drama | Boston Legal |
Comedy-drama, also called dramedy or seriocomedy, is a style of television, theatre and film in which there is an equal or nearly equal balance of humor and serious content.
Traditional western theatre, beginning with the ancient Greeks, was...
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| Sports Night | |||
| Moonlighting | |||
| Northern Exposure | |||
| Auf Wiedersehen, Pet | |||
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| x Documentary |
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Doctor Who Confidential |
Documentary film is a broad category of visual expressions that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality. Although "documentary film" originally referred to movies shot on film stock, it has subsequently expanded to...
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| Threads | |||
| The Blue Planet | |||
| Canada: A People's History | |||
| Weird TV | |||
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| x Japanese television drama | Orange Days |
Japanese dramas (テレビドラマ, terebi dorama, television drama), also called dorama (ドラマ), are a staple of Japanese television and are broadcast daily. All major TV networks in Japan produce a variety of drama series including romance, comedies, detective...
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| Water Boys 2005 Natsu | |||
| Watashitachi no Kyokasho | |||
| Majo no Jouken | |||
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| x Medical drama | House |
A medical drama is a television drama in which events center upon a hospital, an ambulance staff, or any medical environment. While not as popular as legal/crime drama, it is still easily identifiable occupational based drama.
In the United States,...
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| The Royal Today | |||
| Private Practice | |||
| Holby City | |||
| Medical Center | |||
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| x Television drama series | Heroes |
Television drama series is a genre that deals with generally non-epic situations in a serious, dramatic manner. It has recently regained popularity in many countries of the world.
Drama series are distributed among these subgenres:
Drama
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| x Talk show | The Oprah Winfrey Show |
A talk show (American and Australian English) or chat show (British) is a television or radio program where one person or group of people come together to discuss various topics put forth by a talk show host. Sometimes, talk shows feature a panel of...
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| The Roseanne Show | |||
| Ricki Lake | |||
| Late Night with David Letterman | |||
| Late Show with David Letterman | |||
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| x Action genre | Superjail |
The word action has more than one meaning in fiction. Action is one of the fiction-writing modes authors use to present fiction. The term is also used to describe a subset of creative works emphasizing action rather than other aspects of...
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| Manimal | |||
| A.T.O.M. | |||
| Smallville | |||
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| x Variety show | The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour |
A variety show or variety entertainment is an entertainment made up of a variety of acts, especially musical performances and comedy skits, and normally introduced by a compère or host. The variety format made its way from Victorian era stage to...
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| Saturday Night Live | |||
| Viva Variety | |||
| Susie | |||
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| x Live television |
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All American New Year |
Live television refers to television broadcast in real time. Today it is used mostly for programs such as Today, CBS This Morning, and local television news. However, from the early days of television until about 1958, it was used heavily, except...
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| Live Roulette TV | |||
| Live TV Bingo | |||
| BrainTeaser | |||
| The Up-Late Game Show | |||
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| x Interactive television |
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Talang 2007 |
Interactive television (generally known as iTV) describes a number of techniques that allow viewers to interact with television content as they view it.
Interactive television represents a continuum from low interactivity (TV on/off, volume,...
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| So You Think You Can Dance | |||
| So You Think You Can Dance | |||
| Celebrity Duets | |||
| Indian Idol | |||
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| x News broadcasting |
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Fox Report |
News broadcasting is the broadcasting of various news events and other information via television or radio. The content is usually either produced locally in a newsroom, or by a broadcast network. It may also include such additional material as...
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| MSNBC Live with Dan Abrams | |||
| Countdown with Keith Olbermann | |||
| Daily 10 | |||
| The National | |||
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| x Western |
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Four Feather Falls |
The Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States (known...
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| The Lone Ranger | |||
| Gunsmoke | |||
| Bonanza | |||
| The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. | |||
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| x Miniseries | Brideshead Revisited |
A miniseries (also mini-series), in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a pre-planned limited number of episodes. The exact number is open to interpretation; however, they are usually limited to fewer than a whole...
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| From Here to Eternity | |||
| The Six Wives of Henry VIII | |||
| Elizabeth R | |||
| Band of Brothers | |||
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| x News program |
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Countdown with Keith Olbermann |
A news program, news programme, news show, or newscast is a regularly scheduled radio or television program that reports current events. News is typically reported in a series of individual stories that are presented by one or more anchors. A news...
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| Balita Ngayon | |||
| GMA Balita | |||
| GMA Network News | |||
| The Daily Buzz | |||
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| x Late night television | The Colbert Report |
In the United States, late night television is the block of television programming airing after 11:00 pm and usually through 2:00 am. Traditionally, this type of programming airs after the late local news and features a particular genre of...
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| The Charlotte Church Show | |||
| The Daily Show | |||
| x Fantaserye | Atlantika |
Fantaserye or Telefantasya is a genre of Philippine television which mixes soap opera, fantasy, myth, magic and enchantment. The episodes are usually 30 minutes long, and has a daily slot in the evening primetime row.
The term fantaserye is often...
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| Mga Mata ni Anghelita | |||
| Captain Barbell | |||
| Encantadia | |||
| Darna | |||
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| x Wuxia | Romance of the Three Kingdoms |
Wuxia or Wǔxiá (simplified Chinese: 武侠; traditional Chinese: 武俠 Wǔxiá, Mandarin: [ùɕjǎ]; Cantonese Pinyin: Mou5 Hap6: Taiwanese/Hokkien: Bu Kiap) is a broad genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists set in ancient China....
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| Seven Swords of Mount Heaven | |||
| The Return of the Condor Heroes | |||
| Duke of Mount Deer 2000 | |||
| The Legend of the Condor Heroes | |||
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| x Current affairs | On the Record |
Current affairs is a genre of broadcast journalism where the emphasis is on detailed analysis and discussion of news stories that have recently occurred or are ongoing at the time of broadcast.
This differs from regular news broadcasts where the...
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| Sunday Live | |||
| The 7.30 Report | |||
| A Current Affair | |||
| Today Tonight | |||
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| x Saturday morning cartoon | Teacher's Pet |
A Saturday morning cartoon is the colloquial term for the animated television programming which was typically scheduled on Saturday mornings on the major American television networks from the 1960s to the 1990s. In the United States, the generally...
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| ABC Weekend Special | |||
| Shirt Tales | |||
| The Plucky Duck Show | |||
| Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater | |||
| x Speculative fiction |
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Alien Planet |
Speculative fiction is a fiction genre speculating about worlds that are unlike the real world in various important ways. In these contexts, it generally overlaps one or more of the following: science fiction, fantasy fiction, horror fiction,...
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| The Future is Wild | |||
| Life After People | |||
| Aftermath: Population Zero | |||
| Natural History of an Alien | |||
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| x Spy | La Femme Nikita |
The spy film genre deals with the subject of fictional espionage, either in a realistic way or as a basis for fantasy. Many novels in the spy fiction genre have been adapted as films, although in many cases (such as James Bond) the overall tone is...
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| Spooks | |||
| Spooks: Liberty | |||
| I Spy | |||
| Alias | |||
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| x Television syndication |
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Martha |
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows to multiple individual stations, without going through a broadcast network. It is common in countries where television is scheduled by networks with...
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| x Fishing television series | Fishing with John |
Fishing television series Are a genre of television programs revolving around recreational and sport fishing. Shows usually share similar format and features with hunting television shows, and could be considered a sub-genre of Sports Television....
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| Bill Dance Outdoors | |||
| x Show | Pop Idol |
Show can refer to:
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| Us Girls | |||
| It'll be Alright on the Night | |||
| StarStruck | |||
| Joe and James: Reunited | |||
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| x Broadcasting of sports events |
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The Ultimate Fighter |
The broadcasting of sports events is the coverage of sports on television, radio and other broadcasting media. It usually involves one or more commentators describing the events as they happen.
The first radio broadcast of a baseball game was on 5...
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| The World Game | |||
| Fight Girls | |||
| TapouT | |||
| Puppy Bowl | |||
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| x Dramatic programming | Lost |
Dramatic programming is television content that is scripted and (normally) fictional. This excludes, for example, sports, news, reality and game shows, stand-up comedy and variety shows. Also, by convention, the term is not generally usually used...
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| Them | |||
| Rescue 77 | |||
| Dirty Sexy Money | |||
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| x Fan film |
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Star Trek: New Voyages |
A fan film is a film or video inspired by a film, television program, comic book or a similar source, created by fans rather than by the source's copyright holders or creators. Fan filmmakers have traditionally been amateurs, but some of the more...
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| Star Trek: Hidden Frontier | |||
| Star Trek: Odyssey | |||
| Star Trek: The Helena Chronicles | |||
| Star Trek: The Continuing Mission | |||
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| x Television comedy | King of the Hill |
Television comedy had a presence from the earliest days of broadcasting. Among the earliest BBC programmes in the 1930s was Starlight, which offered a series of guests from the music hall era — singers and comedians amongst them. Similarly, many...
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| Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge | |||
| Danger! 50,000 Volts! | |||
| Daily Tips for Modern Living | |||
| The Edwin J. Hill Social Club | |||
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| x Anthology television series |
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The Great Adventure |
An anthology series is a radio or television series that presents a different story and a different set of characters in each episode. Several series employed a permanent troupe of character actors who would appear in a new drama each week. Some...
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| Saga of Western Man | |||
| Beasts | |||
| The Bugs Bunny Show | |||
| Climax! | |||
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| x Music television | CD USA |
Music television is a type of television programming which focuses predominantly on playing music videos from bands, usually on dedicated television channels broadcasting on satellite or cable. Examples are VIVA, MTV, MuchMusic, and Fuse TV.
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| JBTV | |||
| Music Station | |||
| Fearless Music | |||
| FNS Music Festival | |||
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| x Dancing music |
Dance music is music composed, played, or both, specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either the whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement.
Dance music works usually bear the name of the corresponding dance,...
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| x Animated cartoon |
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The Simpsons |
An animated cartoon is a short, hand-drawn (or made with computers to look similar to something hand-drawn) film for the cinema, television or computer screen, featuring some kind of story or plot (even if it is a very short one). This is distinct...
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| King of the Hill | |||
| Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends | |||
| Invader Zim | |||
| Family Guy | |||
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| x Science fiction Western | The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers |
A science fiction Western is a work of fiction which has elements of science fiction in a Western setting. It is different from a Space Western, which is a frontier story indicative of American Westerns, except transposed to a backdrop of space...
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| Legend | |||
| Bravestarr | |||
| x Educational television | Captain Z-Ro |
Educational television is the use of television programs in the field of education. It may be in the form of individual programs or a dedicated television channel.
Many children's television series are educational, ranging from dedicated learning...
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| Sesame Street | |||
| The Electric Company | |||
| Schoolhouse Rock! | |||
| Watch Mr. Wizard | |||
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| x Paranormal television | Maggi & Me |
Paranormal television is a genre of popular television broadcasting. Its scope comprises purportedly factual investigations of paranormal phenomena, rather than the openly fictional representations found in such shows as The Ghosts of Motley Hall...
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| The Unbelievable | |||
| Most Haunted | |||
| Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction | |||
| Derek Acorah's Ghost Towns | |||
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| x Docu-soap | Frauentausch |
A Docu-soap is a kind of format for a reality television program. The shows are characterized by the focusing on the interpersonal drama between the participants rather than the subject of the show itself.
In many reality television shows, the...
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| Chef School | |||
| Musical! Die Show | |||
| Charterfeber | |||
| x Evening News | News 5 |
Evening News may refer to:
In television news:
In newspapers:
In other uses:
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| Pièces à Conviction | |||
| x Panel game | Snacka om nyheter |
A panel game is a game show, particularly popular in the United Kingdom, in which a panel of celebrities compete — either in teams or individually. It is usually chaired by another celebrity. The genre has a lengthy history on both radio and...
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| This is the Law | |||
| Have I Got News for You | |||
| Never Mind the Buzzcocks | |||
| Shooting Stars | |||
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| x Telenovela |
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Sonho Meu |
A telenovela (also spelled telenovella) is a limited-run television serial melodrama popular in the Americas, comprising a great part of its production budget. The word combines tele, short for television, and novela, a word that Latin literary...
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| Apuesta por un Amor | |||
| Rubí | |||
| Muchachitas como tu | |||
| Lola...Erase Una Vez | |||
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| x Musical |
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Viva Laughlin |
The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative. The songs are usually used to advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but some musical films (e.g.Down Argentine Way) simply...
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| Flight of the Conchords | |||
| Pangarap Na Bituin | |||
| Bituin | |||
| Kokey | |||
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| x True crime | North Mission Road |
True crime is a non-fiction literary genre in which the author examines an actual crime and details the actions of real people.
The crimes most commonly include murder, but true crime works have also touched on other legal cases. Depending on the...
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| Forensic Files | |||
| The FBI Files | |||
| The New Detectives | |||
| Snapped | |||
| x Docudrama | Space Race |
A docudrama is a dramatization of actual historical events. As a neologism, the term is often confused with docufiction.
Docudramas tend to demonstrate some or most of the following characteristics:
Docudramas, then, are distinct both from the main...
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| The Day Britain Stopped | |||
| Til' Death Do Us Part | |||
| Prehistoric Park | |||
| A Haunting | |||
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| x Computer-generated imagery |
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Dragon Booster |
Computer-generated imagery (also known as CGI) is the application of the field of computer graphics or, more specifically, 3D computer graphics to special effects in films, television programs, commercials, simulators and simulation generally, and...
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| Xcalibur | |||
| Lucy: Daughter of the Devil | |||
| Jane and The Dragon | |||
| Skyland | |||
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| x Poker on television | Late Night Poker |
Poker television programs have been extremely popular in the last several years, especially in North America and Europe. This has especially become the case since the invention of the "pocket cam" in 1997 (and its first use in the United States in...
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| National Heads-Up Poker Championship | |||
| Poker After Dark | |||
| High Stakes Poker | |||
| x Space western | Firefly |
Space Western is a subgenre of science fiction, primarily grounded in film and television, that transposes themes of American Western books and film to a backdrop of futuristic space frontiers; it is the complement of the science fiction Western,...
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| Silverhawks | |||
| x Crime fiction |
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Rosemary & Thyme |
A crime film, in the most general sense, is a film that involves various aspects crime and the criminal justice system. Stylistically, it can fall under many different genres, most commonly drama, thriller, Mystery film and film noir. Films focused...
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| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | |||
| Banacek | |||
| Phoenix | |||
| Hawaii Five-O | |||
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