Dramatic programming
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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 for situation comedy or soap opera. The term is used more in the British Commonwealth countries than the United States.
Most dramatic programming for TV falls within other standard categories such as miniseries, made-for-TV movies or certain rather circumscribed dramatic genres.
Some examples of BBC dramatic programming would be the oft-rebroadcast miniseries The Six Wives of Henry VIII or the ongoing Masterpiece Theater.