T.V Drama and Me

T.V Drama.Do i like it? I guess it depends what you constitute as a T.V Drama. Today at school we got a powerpoint slide featuring pictures of shows like The Inbetweeners,Skins,Eastenders and Glee and i really did think what is a T.V Drama.

Don't get me wrong i love The Inbetweeners,Skins and Eastenders but for me personally i never have thought of any of them as T.V Drama. The Inbetweeners to me i quite clearly a comedy show. Not a sitcom or panel show but hardly a drama. Eastenders might be called a "T.V Drama" but we all know its a soap and to me thats a different genre. I guess Skins is a T.V Drama but even Skins seems a world apart from the shows i classed as T.V Drama.

Shows like Foyles War, E.R, Mad Men, The Wire and Lost have defined for me personally what a T.V Drama was in the last decade but i suppose now its an umbrella term which can describe pretty much everything from Band of Brothers to Dr Who and of course within in this huge Genre you have the T.V I absolutely hate.Sex and the City,Ugly Betty and Glee to name but a few. So all that being said I think that my relationship with T.V Drama is as normal as you could find with any teenager but within that Genre of T.V are many many sub-genres like Sci-Fi, Detective,Comedy etc. that you will find I have a huge interest in. Considering though that you have a Gossip Girl for every Spooks...Yep I like it just about on the whole.

My Media Identity

Its hard to explain "My media identity" because much of our collective relationship with media we're not even aware of. Every time we use the internet, look through a magazine or go see a movie we are immersing ourselves in the media. We just can't get away from it. Its not like some people are immune from its pull to every kind of person in the world there is one form of the media that appeals to them.

If that seems pessimistic at all then i apologise. Personally i'm in love with many forms of the media especially the film industry and entertainment magazines such as Empire and Uncut. and then to others i owe my information of the world such as the newspapers and all the news that stems from the internet. Also with the internet comes entertainment. To be honest though is that really any different to any other normal human being? to my mind my relationship with the media is really the same as your average joe only in cases like film and music i take my intrests a little further than other people. These days everyone lives their lives through the Media some more than others.