Absurdist/surreal/whimsical
Action
Action comedy
Adult content
Adventure
Agatha Christie
Anthology series
Art television
Australian soap
Batman
Blue Movie
Boris Karloff
British War FIlm
Chekov
CNN
Comedy
Comedy-drama
Coming of Age
Cookery Programme
Cooking show
Costume Drama
Courtroom drama
Court show
Crime
CSI
Current affairs: Broadcast journalism where the emphasis is on detailed analysis and discussion of a news story.
Detective fiction
Disaster film
Docudrama
Documentary
Drama
Dramality: a combination of television drama and reality television genres
Educational: helps kids learn their basics to go through school.
Entertainment news
Factual television: non-fiction television programming that documents actual events and people
Fantasy
Farce
FIlm Noir
Game show
Greek Tragedy
Hard Hitting News Show
Historical fiction
Historical period drama
Horror
Infomercials
Instructional: the use of television programs in the field of distance education
James Bond
Japanese No Theatre
Legal drama: Legal drama sometimes overlap with crime drama, most notably in the case of the show Law & Order.
Love Story
Magical realism
Magic Show
Medical drama
Melodrama
Mockumentary
Murder Mystery
Musical film
Music television
Mystery
News program
Paranoid fiction
Philosophical
Philosophical and psychological drama (PPP): A genre of film that's primary focus is crime drama, told from the angle of different psychological conditions
Police procedural
Political drama
Prehistoric Epic
Public affairs (broadcasting): This refers to radio or television programs that focus on politics and public policy
Reality: A purportedly unscripted show (though evidence suggests that some scripting or manipulation occurs) featuring non-actors interacting with each other or dealing with invented or contrived challenges, such as competing against others for a prize
Religiou
Richard & Judy / Daytime TV
Riverdance
Romance
Romantic comedy (aka Rom-com)
Saga
Satire
Science fiction
Shakespearian Comedy
Shakespearian Tragedy
Silent Movie
Sitcom: Short for situational comedy, a generally lighthearted genre that features characters having to deal with odd or uncomfortable situations or misunderstandings.
Slapstick
Slasher movie
Soap opera
Social
Spaghetti Western
Speculative
Sports
Stand-up comedy
Star Trek
Tabloid television: (also known as Teletabloid) a form of tabloid journalism. Tabloid television newscasts usually incorporate flashy graphics and sensationalized stories.
Talk show
Teen drama
Telenovela
Thriller
Travel Documentary
Urban
Variety show: Also known as variety arts or variety entertainment like include magic, animal and circus acts, acrobatics, juggling and ventriloquism
Washing Powder Advert
Western
Whodunnit
Woody Allen


