UK Drama Research and Analyse

The UK television dramas are apart of the biggest TV genre's to run on. UK dramas air around the whole of the world. These shows usually run on the 3 main broadcasting networks in the UK; ITV, BBC and Channel 4.

Some examples of these would be: 

• Doctor Who
• Sherlock
• Downton Abbey 
• Happy Valley 
• Granchester
• Skins 
• Poldark 
• Misfits
• Merlin 
• Being human 

Format

Drama shows usually run in series shown after a few months or even a year (in the sense of Sherlock 2 or even 3 years) break from being on ours screens. Its is normally shown on telle durning the winter periods of the year so mainly at the start and they end; they also mainly have christmas special episodes where the characters have a completely different plot line to what is usual within their series just for the soul purpose of fitting into christmas. Examples of these are: Doctor Who, Sherlock, Downton Abbey, Merlin.  They would usually broadcast at this time because it is more likely that people are going to be in the house on the couch in front of the TV and can't watch a heavy drama. There is usually a continuos story that runs through all of the series with the same characters going through something which is usually a tragic event until the whole programme comes to a close. In Skins it is a bit different. It follows 3 groups of friends going through the two years at the same college; as one group graduates the next group come in for their time. These are known as the different generations in skins. 

Appeals

Some may use drama in different ways. Some may use it for personal identity from the subplots within the show. Like in Doctor who the person watching couldn't really identify with the fact that he is a thousand year old alien whose face changes and travels through time and space. However, they could identify with the struggles that he faces and the emotion that him or his companion feels. They could  also identify with the character in skins more as it is a realism series. Information is another one of the uses & gratifications that someone could use dramas for, especially when watching period dramas like Downton Abbey and Poldark. They would get information from these shows