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  BBC television drama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BBC television broadcasting ceased on September 1 1939, and the station remained off-air for the duration of the war, with the technicians and engineers needed for war efforts such as the RADAR programme, and the government afraid that the VHF transmission signals would act as a guiding beacon for German bombers targeting central London.
One of the major figures in commercial television drama of the late 1950s and early 1960s was Canadian producer Sydney Newman, the Head of Drama at ABC Television responsible for such programmes as Armchair Theatre and The Avengers.
Popular dramas such as Doctor Who and Z-Cars continued into the new decade, and were joined by costume dramas such as The Pallisers, The Onedin Line and Poldark, carrying on from the successes of The Forsyte Saga, which had been set in the past and been a major success in the late 1960s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BBC_television_drama   (5367 words)

  
 Television Drama, French-Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
While situation comedies and televised novels were marked by stage conventions, the historical and biographical miniseries together with serialised short stories received filmic treatments which subordinated dialogue to setting and heightened the spatial and temporal aspects of action.
In his televised novel "Les Girouettes" (1980-83), Jean Daigle presents a rural environment on the Richelieu River where a handicapped widow encounters a daughter who tries to establish order in a family threatened by a father's impetuosity and the demands of her 4 brothers: the plot is thin, if it does have interesting twists.
Tremblay's drama is heavily accented: its expression is often aggressive and violent, with an expression like that of the video clip which employs a rapid rhythm, and is suggestive and evocative rather than rhetorical and discursive.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?ArticleId=A0007907   (4521 words)

  
 Television Drama, English-Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
English-language television drama is fictional narrative material ranging from short illustrative sketches to original, full-length scripts.
Characteristics which have distinguished the best of Canadian TV drama are a tolerance of moral ambivalence, open-ended narrative structures, a willingness to experiment with the medium itself and an ironic vision of authoritarian values.
Television drama is the most expensive of all television staples.
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 Anthology Drama
Anthology drama was an early American television series format or genre in which each episode was a discrete story/play rather than a weekly return to the same setting, characters, and stars.
In the history of American television the anthology dramas that were broadcast live from New York are often considered the epitome of the genre and of television's "golden age" of the 1950s.
Television writers and original television dramas soon appeared, however, and writers as well as critics and audiences recognized the potential power of small-scale, intimate drama created for the new medium.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/A/htmlA/anthologydra/anthologydra.htm   (1034 words)

  
 CAIN: Lance Pettitt (2000) 'Television drama and the Troubles', from Screening Ireland: Film and television ...
Drama is not required to be balanced or impartial like news and may engage a wider audience through its dramatic rather than documentary conventions to afford ‘imaginative insights into the complexity of the situation'.
In an assessment of Troubles drama on television, the representation of loyalist paramilitaries, evangelist churches and Orange Order meetings is important to Parker, who observes of previous drama that ‘not only do you not see Protestant paramilitaries and their ideologies but you only see the IRA in stereotyped versions'.
It was introduced as a drama documentary, the action was date captioned 1982 and characters bore the names of real figures, but it used the full repertoire of TV drama conventions, visual cues and incidental music score to convey the covert war of surveillance, the paranoid foreboding and suspense surrounding Stalker’s investigation team.
cain.ulst.ac.uk /images/cinema/pettitt/pettitt00.htm   (10202 words)

  
 Television Drama
a course in the critical analysis of television
• to examine alternative methodologies for the critical analysis of television drama
• to reflect on the relationship between the shifting shapes of tv drama and the larger pattern of social experience
www.comms.dcu.ie /sheehanh/tv/pg-tvdrama.htm   (240 words)

  
 Centre for Television Drama Studies
The Centre for Television Drama Studies was established at the University of Reading in June 2000.
This project combines analytical and archival study of British television drama programming from Armchair Theatre to the coming of Channel 4 with textual, generic, institutional and cultural study of the professional context of British TV drama output in the period.
The project studies how the import of television fiction programmes from the USA into Britain in the 1970-2000 period affected the ways that British television drama was planned, made and received.
www.rdg.ac.uk /FD/Research/TVCentre.htm   (1270 words)

  
 HERE'S TELEVISION: THE HISTORY OF THE BBC | A TELETRONIC CLASSIC TV HISTORY ARTICLE
There were no television sets on the market, but a hobbies magazine told you how to make one for yourself, and a few people had achieved the extraordinary feat.
Furthermore television was "wireless telegraphy," of which the BBC had valuable and monopolistic operational rights under its licence.
It was this committee, dealing with television on a technical basis, which recommended that a public service of television be started by the BBC, from a station in London.
www.teletronic.co.uk /herestv.htm   (2359 words)

  
 glbtq >> arts >> American Television, Drama
Recently, however, television dramatic series such as NBC's ER and subscriber network Showtime's Queer As Folk have seen a noticeable rise in prominent and recurring queer characters.
As Edward Alwood has explained, from 1968 to 1974 homosexuals on television were recognizable in programs such as Kojak, M*A*S*H, Police Woman, and Hawaii Five-O because of their routine representation as limp-wristed, effeminate drag queens who walked with a swish and talked in a high-pitched voice.
With the emergence of AIDS on the national scene, the television landscape altered significantly.
www.glbtq.com /arts/am_tv_drama.html   (753 words)

  
 Television Shows - Drama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Drama with ethnic New York detectives battling street crime throughout Manhattan.
Fan page for the short-lived drama about a man whose life is suddenly turned upside down by his vengeful twin.
An unofficial fan page for the legal drama with show news, character profiles, episode guide,actor bios, pics and multimedia.
www.daviestrek.com /tv/drama.html   (2909 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: DVD,  DVD,  Categories,  Television & Documentary,  Drama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Welcome to the world of Sugar Rush II, of KIM, no longer a fifteen year old homophobic gay virgin, but a seventeen year old horny queer ready to unleash her libido on Brighton’s lesbian scene… that is when she’s not revising for her A Levels, saving SUGAR from her probation officer,...
Depending on where you get your recommendations, you'll see Teachers described as a comedy, a drama, an irresponsible depiction of the teaching profession and a (fairly) sympathetic reminder of how teachers are expected to be morally unimpeachable despite being ordinary human beings like the rest of...
The drama portrays ‘The Virgin Queen’ in her later years, exposing the conflict...
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/501966   (895 words)

  
 Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission - Television Drama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The NIFTC runs a number of funding schemes for television drama through a variety of funds.
The NIFTC's Lottery contribution to a feature film or television drama production budget can be no more than 50% of the total cost of the production.
The NIFTC will invest between £150,000 and £600,000 or 25% of overall project costs in a live action or animated feature film or a live action or animated television drama single, series or serial where the production has a strong cultural relevance to Northern Ireland.
www.niftc.co.uk /page.asp?id=90   (253 words)

  
 Windows - Television - Drama
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This theme is based on the popular television show.
freethemes.ip.pt /television_drama_ttype.html   (394 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | Brady objects to TV murders drama
Granada has said that its programme, a factual drama, is the result of two years of intensive research with detectives who worked on the original murder investigation.
But Brady says he fears the programme will be based on the "uninformed evidence of peripheral individuals" and he challenges evidence given in court in 1966 about how the police actually solved the case.
Brady questions whether the planned drama is in the public interest, and claims it "ignores the effect on relatives of the victims".
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4202402.stm   (713 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Reviews | The Deal proves unfair to Blair
The Deal is a Channel 4 drama about the alleged pact made between Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor Gordon Brown on the leadership of the Labour Party.
To criticise it as historically inaccurate is perhaps ill-judged as it was billed as a drama with merely a basing in fact, rather than a dry political documentary.
As drama, it worked very well and both leading performances were gripping.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/reviews/3142846.stm   (2001 words)

  
 Television Drama Sploogee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Encyclopedia Encyclopedia BBC television drama 1 Experimental broadcasting and the 1930s2 The return of television and the 1950s3 The golden age of BBC...
Literature 329: The One-Hour Television Drama Literature in History: studying various examples of the nearly omnipresent form of entertainment in Earth's twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Television Crime Drama Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - Tuesday, March 28, 2006 Tuesday 28 March 2006 10.30am-3pm Next to 'soaps' and 'docs', 'cops' are the mainstay of television drama in Britain.
www.sploogee.com /tv/Television+Drama   (1675 words)

  
 Investment Guidelines - Children's Television Drama
Projects must be eligible for a "C" classification under the Government's "C" Drama guidelines in order to apply to the FFC.
Due to the expected high level of demand on the FFC's children's drama funds in 2006/07, the FFC will allocate these funds in two tranches: approximately 60 per cent (excluding the Distinctively Australian Children's Drama Fund) will be available in July and the remaining 40 per cent in December.
Therefore, the FFC will apply up to $1.5 million of its children's drama funds for 2006/07 to support the production of a lower-budget children's drama project with no requirement for an international pre-sale.
www.ffc.gov.au /investment/ffc_content_investment_children.asp   (866 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Television Drama: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Arguing that TV drama is a key site for exploring the usefulness of contemporary theories of identity, culture and representation, it offers a framework which links this analysis to theoretical concepts explored elsewhere in cultural, media and film studies over recent years.
Each chapter provides a critical account of a specific theoretical approach, outlining its history and scope, and demonstrating its application across a range of TV dramas, ending with a close reading of particular examples.
Organized around the themes of identity and subjectivity, the book encompasses a wide range of approaches and texts, from sitcom, to docudrama, to sci fi, and is an ideal resource for undergraduate students of media studies, cultural studies, communication studies, and television and film studies.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0333968883   (294 words)

  
 On Television: Drama, Drama, Drama
I’m so addicted to both of them…i know while Laguna was airing, me and my roommate would be on my bed at 9:58 every monday night waiting for it to come on, and THEN we would go out and party!
Posted on December 22, 2005 08:41 AM by one tr294.
Filed in On Television under one tree hill.
television.blogcarnival.com /archives/2005/12/free_writing_7.html   (173 words)

  
 British Television Drama: A History
This book illuminates the varied history of British television drama in one volume for the first time--from its beginnings on the BBC in the '30s and '40s to its position at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
The book concludes with an assessment of the changes in British TV drama over its eventful history, especially examining the accusation that there has been a decline in the production of radical and progressive drama in the last twenty years.
He is currently researching regional British television drama at Manchester Metropolitan University.
www.ucpress.edu /books/bfi/pages/PROD0272.html   (164 words)

  
 Television Drama: Agency, Audience and Myth - John Tulloch - Mobipocket eBook
This book is the first specifically about television drama from within a cultural studies perspective and as such examines the active agency of both viewers and media practitioners.
The author examines dominant and counter-myths as they circulate in popular culture, discussing soap opera, science fiction, sitcom, cop series and ''authored'' drama among its examples.
The overall aim of the book is to examine television representation as part of a historically positioned and differentiated social formation in which knowledgeable actors work in every institutional arena (whether media industry, academia or domestic household) to make their meanings.
www.ebookmall.com /ebook/95921-ebook.htm   (674 words)

  
 TF30620 - TELEVISION DRAMA
- To critically apply theoretical models of television theory to the television dramas studied.
The lectures, seminars and screening will study the history and development of British television drama.
This module builds upon the method used in the Part I television module and analyses the non-verbal structure of television writing.
www.aber.ac.uk /modules/2003/TF30620.html   (315 words)

  
 Zia Film - Television Drama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
It is a battle that will make him stand out forever, not just as an American hero, but also as a target for the "blind hate" of the Klan.
(Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones) -- This Emmy Award winning production is a television adaptation of Tennessee Williams Pulitzer Prize winning play.
A classic American drama set on a Southern plantation, this powerful story delves into family conflict on all levels.
www.ziafilm.com /data/directories/toc-tvdrama.htm   (213 words)

  
 FOX Broadcasting Company: 24
Congratulations on the show's 12 Emmy nominations -- the most of any television series!
Including Best Drama Series, Kiefer Sutherland for Best Lead Actor, Gregory Itzin for Best Supporting Actor and Jean Smart for Best Supporting Actress.
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www.fox.com /24   (94 words)

  
 TELEVISION DRAMA.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Ideas Merchant Film and Television are experienced documentary and factual film makers.
Now we are moving into the production of television drama.
A journalist suffers the consequences of a war she thought ended 350 years ago!
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/IDEAS_MERCHANT/tvdrama1.htm   (130 words)

  
 TF30620 - TELEVISION DRAMA
The main development of the module when compared with Part I lies not only in the quality of analysis required but more importantly, in the more comprehensive focus on individual 'authors' such as Potter and Bleasdale.
Brandt, George (ed.) (1993) British Television Drama in the 1980's - CUP
Tulloch, John (1990) Television Drama, agency, audience and myth - Routledge
www.aber.ac.uk /modules/current/TF30620.html   (600 words)

  
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 Irish Televsion Drama: A Society and Its Stories by Helena Sheehan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Chapter 2: Television as a Medium of Drama
Part 2: The Evolution of Irish Television Drama
DCU course in Social History and TV Drama
www.comms.dcu.ie /sheehanh/itvd.htm   (101 words)

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