TV drama is a genre of fictionalized action produced for television that aims to emotionally engage audiences through compelling characters and storylines. Popular TV dramas in the UK include soap operas like EastEnders and Coronation Street that attract millions of viewers per episode. The opening credits of dramas like The Wire and True Blood use micro-level elements to convey information about the genre, location, themes, and world of the show to audiences.

2. Drama is a Greek word meaning 'action' The audience for TV Drama grow attached emotionally to fictional characters; they empathise or relate to certain characters TV Drama is "fictionalised action in narrative form produced for TV". It is filmed, acted and edited in a way that will appeal to a specific target audience.

3. Popular TV Dramas Eastenders: hovers around 8 million per episode Coronation Street: between 8.6 & 8.9 million per episode

4. TV Drama covers everything from Soaps, cop dramas, hospital dramas, docu-dramas to classic literary adaptations TV Drama also employs many different narrative structures. TV Dramas vary in terms of their style, editing and mise-en-scene

8. What links all of these forms of TV Drama is the way they use characters to tell a story. The continuing popularity of TV Drama and its importance to broadcasters seems to be rooted in people's fascination with, and emotional involvement in, characters and stories

9. TV Drama is vital to TV. Although expensive to produce when it is good it reaches large, frequently global audiences. The Wire has only recently been shown on terrestrial TV, however all five seasons of the HBO show are in the Amazon top 20 sellers. Internet forums, blogs, print media and You Tube all helped to make The Wire a huge hit in the UK.

10. In a digitally converging environment, new platforms are providing new forms of TV Drama. Dubplate Drama My Space Interactive Dramas like ' Dubplate Drama' involve the audience and allow the audience to influence the narrative progression

11. Mobisodes are TV Dramas for your mobile; Lost offered fans a series of thirteen video clips ranging in length from one to four minutes that aired during the hiatus between the 3rd and 4th seasons.

12. New media technology has allowed new means of distribution for TV Drama.