1. Crime and Justice TV dramas
Court room drama:
Law and order
Law and order special victims unit
Law and order criminal intent
Law and order UK
Garrow’s law: tales from the old bailey (also a period
drama and doco-drama)

2. Period drama:
Ashes to ashes
Life on mars
Heartbeat
Inspector George gently
Miss Marple
Foyle’s war

3. CSI
CSI Miami
CSI New York
NCIS
Criminal minds
Waking the dead
Prison break
Homicide: life on the
streets
24
The bill
24
The wire
Morse
A torch of frost
The Avengers
Alias
Bones
The closer
Cold case
Crossing Jordan
Cracker
Dexter
flash forward
K-Vile
Monk
Numb3rs
Quincy, M.E
Silent witness
The shield
Starsky and Hutch
Millennium
Wallander

4. Veronica mars
Wire in the blood
Prime suspect
The cops
Dixon of dock green
Sherlock homes
Criminal justice
Popular with the audience because
- Crime is up to date, can deal with contemporary
fears;
- Exciting; dangerous
- Murder; what makes murderers tick? E.g. Dexter
- Good normally triumphs over evil
- Crime drama are often very moralistic, the
audience see criminal behaviour punished, this
often reassurance that criminal justice works. But
the TV series The Wire does not offer this
reassurance; it exposes corruption in criminal
justice system.
- Audiences are active; they predict narrative
resolution
- They are sociable, people talk about then, set up
fan blogs est.
Popular with the industry because:
- Popular with audience
- They can make money; DVD box sets
- Some can be cheap to make and organise, codes
and convections (camera work est.) already
established
- Flexible storylines; options limitless
- Good at filling TV schedule

5. - Have potential to be series and limitless e.g
Taggert, Sapranos