All My Favourite TV shows (old and new) In Preferential Order

All of thes rankings are according to my view of what they were like during their peak.

1/ Twin Peaks (Psychological Thriller)
2/ Charlie Brooker's Screenwripe (Comedy Non Drama)
3/ (atoms) (Documentary)
4/ Fawty Towers (Sit Com)
5/ Thomas The Tank Engine (Childrens' Animation)
6/ Halfway Across The Universe And Turn Left (Childrens' Drama) 

7/ Cracker (Police Detective Show)
8/ Doctor Who (Science Fiction)
9/ The Outer Limits (Horror)
10/ Tales Of The Unexpected (Drama)
11/ The Fall (Police Detective Show)
12/ ER (Soap Serial)
13/ London Olympics 2012 (Sport)
14/ Lois & Clark: New Adventures Of Superman (Adventure)
15/ Wentworth Prison (Drama)
16/ Beavis & Butthead (Animation)
17/ The Brit Awards (Awards)
18/ The Apprentice (Reality Game Show)
19/ Charlie Brooker’s Yearly Wipe (Comedy Non Drama)
20/ (Tests with Richard Bacon) (Factural)
21/ The Great Art Robery (Entertainment)
22/ Days Of Our Lives (Soap Opera) 
23/ EastEnders (Soap Opera) 
24/ The Jerry Springer Show (Chat show) 
25/ (Music with Big George) (Education College University)
26/ What's Up Doc? (Childrens' Entertainment)
27/ Homeland (Psychological Thriller)
28/ (David Tennant animals) (Documentary)
29/ The League Of Gentleman (Comedy Drama)
30/ Cone (Childrens Comedy Drama) 
31/ True Fires (Kissing Animals)  (Advertisement) 
31/ Peep Show (Comedy Drama) 
32/ Celebrity Big Brother (Reality Game And Talent Show) 
33/ Gotham (Action Thriller) 
34/ Big Brother's Bit On The Side (Entertainment)
35/ Stolen (Social Drama)
36/ The Krypton Factor (Game Show)
37/ Catchphrase (Quiz Show)
38/ House Through The Decades (Factural)
39/ Random Acts (Art-Narrative)
40/ The Simple Life (Constructed Reality)
41/ 7- Up UK (Specialist Factural)
42/ Broadchurch (Crime Thriller) 
43/ Channel 4 News (News)
44/ How 2 (Children's Factural)
45/ (D.Tennant, B.Pipper- Love Stories) (Romantic Drama)
46/ You're Back In The Room (Game Show)
47/ The Graham Norton Show (Chat Show)
48/ The Truth Behind Marijuana (Specialist Factual) 
49/ Art Attack (Childrens' Feature) 
50/ Finders Keepers (Childrens' Game Show)
51/ Pop Up Video UK (Music)
52/ On Assignment (Current Affairs)
53/ (ITV show with Steve Wright) (Music)
54/ Cucumber (Erotica)
55/ Countryfile (Feature)
56/ Oscar's Oasis (Childrens' Animation)
57/ The Final Score (Sport)
58/ Pushing Up Daisies (Fantasy)
59/ No I Have Never Been Tangoed (Advertisement)
60/ Still Open All Hours (Sit Com) 
61/ The Kennedy's (Biographical Drama) 
62/ Eric & Ernie (Vauderville)
63/ GCSE Bitesize French (Education Schools)

(variety)

Factural & Reality TV types Part 5

SPECIALIST FACTURAL SHOWS

Specialist Factural These are typically one off documentaries.   Sometimes these specialist shows can be event television (ie: sometimes live and therefore the conclusions can be unscripted).  

Embarrasing Bodies Live From The Clinic (UK) (Channel 4)

The Truth About Marijauna (UK)(Channel 4)  ~

~ Indicates my favourite within each category

Factural and Reality TV sub genres part 4

REALITY GAME SHOW & TALENT SHOW

Where Reality and Game Shows meet.  In order to participate contestants do not need a talent other than be willing to join in and some degree of stanima.

In Talent Show contestants compete by showing who has the greatest talent in a variety of specialist skills such as business, acting, comedy, entrapaneurship, singing, football, modeling, sports, hosting and baking etc. These shows also focuss on how the contestants are coping backstage or in rehersals.  Sometimes they show how they are getting on together.

Reality Game Show

Average Joe (UK; US edition) (E4)
The Bachelor/Bachelette (US; Global edition) (Channel 5)

Back To Reality (UK) (Channel 5)

Big Brother (Neth; Global, Annual, Childrens', Ultimate, celebrity & proffessional editions) (Channel 4/Channel 5) ~

Celebrity Love Island (UK) (ITV1)

Coach Trip (UK; & celebrity edition) (Channel 4)

(The Hotel) (UK) (Channel 4)

The Island (UK; & US edition) (Channel 4/ Sky)

I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here (UK; Global edition) (ITV1)

(Jade's Apprentice) (UK) 
(Jodie Marsh meets a new mate) (UK) 

Lost (UK) (Channel 4)

My New Best Friend (UK) (Channel 4)

Paris Hilton's Best Friend Forever (US; And UK edition) (ITV2)

Survivor (UK; global edition) (ITV1)

Young, Dumb And Living With Mum (UK) (BBC3)

Talent Show

The Apprentice (US; UK & celebrity edition) (BBC1/2) ~

Come Dine With Me (UK; & celebrity edition) (Channel 4/More 4)

Dancing On Ice (UK) (ITV1)

Dragon's Den (UK) (BBC2)

Four In A Bed (UK; as well as 3 in a bed) (Channel 4)

The Games (UK) (Channel 4)

(Gardening) (UK) (BBC2)

...Got Talent (UK; Global format) (ITV2)

Great British Bake Off (UK) (BBC1/2)

Great Pottery Showdown (UK) (BBC2)

The Great Sewing Bea (UK) (BBC2)

Hair (UK) (BBC3)

(Hear'Say) (UK) (ITV1)

Hell's Kitchen (UK; US and Meditteranean edition) (ITV1/Channel 4)

(Jamie Oliver Catering school) (UK) (Channel 4)

The Jump (UK) (Channel 4)

Masterchef (UK; Global edition) (BBC1/2)

..Next Top Model (US; global edition) (Sky/E4)

Open Mike (UK) (ITV1)

Opportunity Knocks (UK) (BBC1)

Pop Idol (UK; Global & World edition) (ITV1/2/ Channel 5)

Popstars (UK; Global & Rival edition)

Pop Star To Opera Star (UK)

The Pussycat Dolls Presents Popstars (UK; basically a US edition of PopStars)

Scream Queen (US) (VIVA The Hits)

So You Think You Can Dance (US; UK edition) (BBC1)

Soapstars (UK) (ITV1)

Soapstar To Pop Star (UK) (ITV1)

Splash (UK) (ITV1)

Strictly Come Dancing (UK; global format; Dancing With The Stars in US) (BBC1)

The Voice (Neth; Format has gone global.  Also includes a Children's edition) (BBC1)

The X Factor (UK; and US edition) (ITV1/2)

~ Indicates my favourite in each sub genre

Factural & Reality TV types part 3

FACTURAL TELEVISION, part 2

Factural Reality are similar to Factural shows but have a feel of a reality show with some of the participants becoming TV personalities.  

Factural Entertainment throw entertaininment into the mix

Factural Reality

Boss Swap (UK) (Channel 4)

(Celebrity Driving School) (UK) (ITV1)

(Celebrity make Over) (US) (E4)

The Choir (UK) (BBC2)

Don't Tell The Bride (UK) (BBC3/2/Sky)

Duck Dynasty (US) 

Faking It (UK) (Channel 4)
The Family (UK) (Channel 4)

Gogglebox (UK; and Celebrity + childrens' adaptation) (Channel 4/4Seven)

Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares (US; + meditaranean edition) (Channel 4/4Seven)

Holiday Showdown (UK) (ITV1)

Home From Home (UK) (Channel 4)

How Clean Is Your House? (UK) (Channel 4)

(Jade Goody) (UK) 

Jamie Oliver's Dream School (UK) (Channel 4)

My Fat Gypsy Wedding (UK) (Channel 4)

My Life As An Animal (UK) (BBC3)
Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners (UK) (Channel 4)

(Richard Bacon Tests) (UK)(Channel 4)  ~

The Secret Boss (UK; & US adaptation) (Channel 4/ More 4)

The Secret Millionaire (UK) (Channel 4/ More 4)

Super Nanny (UK; & US adaptation) (Channel 4/ More 4)

Too Posh To Wash (UK) (Channel 4)

The Undatables (UK) (Channel 4)

Wife Swap (UK; & celebrity edition) (Channel 4)

(Young Drivers) (UK) (BBC3)

Factural Entertainment
(celebrity Shocking surgery) (UK) (Channel 4)

Ferne Meets... (UK) (ITV2)

The Hairy Bikers (UK) (BBC1/2)

(Home holiday camera) (UK) (Channel 4)
The Jordan Years (UK) (BBC3)

(The Real Benedorm) (UK) (Channel 4)
The Reunion (UK) (ITV2) ~

Topgear (UK) (BBC1/2/3)

~ Indicates my favourite in each sub genre

Reality & Factural TV part 2

FACTURAL SHOWS

Docu Soaps are supposed to be like 'a real life continuing soap opera'.  These shows focuss on the day to day life of people whilst they are at their real work or communities.  Many docu soaps also try to portray a vaierty of situations within communties and working environments, therefore differentiating themselves from unconstructed reality shows, which are more natural.

Factural shows go one step further than Docu Soaps as they aim to educate the viewer.  Unlike Documentaries which aim for an accademic impartial approach, Factural Reality programs portray situations through real life examples.  This means that those who are involoved, or who are dirrectly affected have a greater role in the show than academics or professors.

Docu Soaps

(The Airport) (ITV1) (UK)

Animal Hospital (BBC1) (UK)

Bandi Vet (Sky 3) (Aus)

Children's Hospital (BBC2) (UK)

Come Fly With Me (ITV1/2) (UK)

The Cruise (ITV) (UK)

(Cruise Ship) (ITV1) (UK)
Educating... (Channel 4) (UK)
Great Ormond Street Hospital (BBC1) (UK)

(Jade's Beauty Saloon) (UK)

Jersey Island (ITV1) (UK)

The Lion Man (Sky 3) (Aus)
(Million pound basement) (BBC1) (UK)
(Night Shift.. ) (Channel 4) (UK)
One Born Every Minute (Channel 4/ More 4) (UK; US adaptation)

Paul O'Grady's For The Love Of Dog's (ITV1) (UK) 

(Paul O'Grady nature reserve) (ITV1) (UK)
(Pot holes) (BBC1) (UK)
Pound Shop Wars (BBC1) (UK)

The Red Coats (ITV1) (UK)

Ron Atkinson Football Manager (Sky 3) (UK)
24 Hours In A & E (Channel 4) (UK)
(Undertakers) (ITV1) (UK)

ZXL Zoo (ITV1) (UK) ~

Factural

(Airbrushing) (UK) (BBC3)
(Anne Robinson - How people spend their money) (UK) (BBC1)

(Babies- Different approaches through the ages) (UK) (ITV1)

(Beauty Meets...) (UK) (Channel 4)

(Bipolar Sufferers' with Psychotherapist) (UK) (Channel 4)

Celebrity Botched Up Bodies (UK) (Channel 5) 
(celebrities meet people who are going through the same thing they once had) (UK) (Channel 5)
Countryfile (UK) (BBC1)

(D.O'Brian- Gryth.R. Jones Travelling to Ukraine) (UK) (BBC2)

Dog Borstal (UK) (BBC3)

Driving School (UK) (BBC2)

Embarrasing Bodies (UK) (Channel 4)

Embarrasing Teen Bodies (UK) (Channel 4/ More 4)

(emergency rooms) (UK) (BBC3/ Really)
(Family Judge) (US) (ITV2)

(Fariah Fawcett) (US)

The Hoarder Next Door (UK) (Channel 4)

House Through The Ages (UK) (BBC2) ~
ITV Drama Trial's (UK) (ITV3) 

(Jamie Oliver's school meals) (UK; & US edition) (Channel 4/ More 4)

(Joadie Marsh starts a family) (UK) (Channel 5)
Judge Geordie (UK) (Channel 5)
Judge Judy (US) (ITV1/2)
(Life as a 3 year old) (UK) (Channel 4)

(Katie Piper) (UK) (Channel 4)

Lists in general (Worldwide) (Channel 4/ ITV1/ Channel 5/ 5*/ E4/ BBC3/ TMF-VIVA The Hits/ MTV/ VH1)

My Beautiful Face (UK) (Channel 4 / More 4)

My Daddy Hits Mummy (UK) (BBC3)

(OCD) (UK) (Channel 4)

The Real Hustle (UK) (BBC3)

7 Up (UK; global editions) (ITV/1)

(seeking items from drama) (UK) (ITV1)

Super Size Vs Super Skinny (UK) (Channel 4/ More 4)

(Teens trying to get a job) (Bel)

Wounded (UK) (BBC3)
(Young adults with specific learning difficulties) (UK) (Channel 4) 

~ Indicates my favourite in each sub genre

Soaps Soaps and More Soaps

Past & Present:

SOAP (continuing kitchen sink, Drama, gritty or procedural drama.  The soap sub genre can be set either in a community, workplace or institution. Procedural drama is a style, or sub-sub genre within kitchen sink drama that involves technical detail of employment rather than character studies.  Traditional community based soaps initially portrayed a slice of life therefore I consider them to be kitchen sink dramas, rather than melodramatic.  I have also included what area of work, institution or where the soap is based) * Indicates my favourite

All Of My Children (US) - Rich Suburbia/Drama
The Archers (UK) -  Farming Community/Kitchen Sink
As The World Turns (US) - Sister show of Guiding Light;- Rich Suburbia/Drama
The Bill (UK) (1988-2002; and 2005-2009) - Police Station/Procedural-Drama

Brookside (UK) (up until early 90's) - Liverpudlian Close/Gritty Drama

Castles (UK) -  A family in a quiet community/Kitchen Sink

Coronation Street (UK) (up until mid 90's) - Street on the outskirts of Manchester/Kitchen Sink

A Country Practice (Aus)  - Doctor's surgery/Kitchen Sink 

Crossroads (original) (UK) -  Motel/Drama

*EastEnders * (UK) (Until the early 90's) - East end area of London/Gritty Drama *

Elderado (UK) (Up until a few weeks before it was axed) Spanish Community for British Expats/Kitchen Sink

Gems (UK) - Clothes Factory/Procedural-Kitchen Sink

Guiding Light (US) - Country Village/Drama

Hollyoaks (Up until late 90's)  (UK) - Student life/Procedural-Kitchen Sink

Pobol Y Cwm (UK)- Welsh/Kitchen Drama 
Point Blank (US)  - Rich /Drama 
Shortland Street  (NZ) -  Hospital/Procedural-Drama



SOAP DRAMA (Serial soaps that at least try to portray life within an institution or workplace rather than the characters' private lives, whilst community soap drama's avoid melodrama.  Workplace based soap dramas' will remain procedural.  Soap drams' set in an institution such as a school will focuss on issues that effect the lives of that typical demographic)

Another World (US) - Spin off from As The World Turns;-Rich Suburbia/Drama
Baywatch (US)  - beach in Los Angeles/ Gentle Melodrama 
Beverly Hills 90210 (US) - Teens in a Beverly Hills Surburb/Procedural-Drama
The Bill (UK) (1984 - 1988) - Police Station/Procedural-Drama
Byker Grove (UK) - School in a town outside Newcastle/Procedural-Drama
Cagney And Lacey (US) - 2 Police Detectives in New York/Procedural Gritty Drama
Casualty (UK) - Hospital/Procedural-Melodrama
Children's Ward (UK) Children's Ward/Procedural-Gritty Drama
Colombo (US) - Detective Series/Procedural-Drama
CSI (US) - Detective & Forensic Series/Procedural-Melodrama
Dawson's Creek (US) - College/Procedural-Kitchen Sink
Diagnosis Murder (US) - Remake of Quincy ME;- Forensic/Detective Show/Procedural-Drama
Emmerdale Farm (UK) (up until 1993) - Farming Community/Procedural-Kitchen Sink
Flying Doctors (Aus) Australian medical team in the outback /Procedural-Gentle Melodrama 
Heartbeat (UK) - 1960's Police Station in Yorkshire/Procedural-Kitchen Sink
Heartbreak High (Aus)  - high School in Sydney/Gritty Drama 
Hill Street Blues (US) - Police Station/Procedural-Gritty Drama
LA Law (US) - Legal Firms/Procedural-Melodrama
Little House On The Prairie (US)  - 1930's range in the country/Kitchen Sink 
London's Burning (UK) - Firefighters/Procedural-Kitchen Sink
Melrose Place (US) - Sister show of Beverly Hills 90210.  First series was a drama in a Melrose apartment block/Gritty Drama
Miami Vice (US) - 2 Coppers/Procedural-Melpdrama
Midsummer Murders (UK) - Detectives in a village with a high murder rate/Procedural-Melodrama
Minder (UK) - Bodyguard for a wheeler & dealer in London/Procedural-Drama
Miss Marple (UK) - Amatuer elderly sleuth/Procedural-Drama
Murder She Wrote (US) - Amateur author who solves murder wherever she goes/Procedural-Melodrama
NCIS (US) - Detective/Forensic Series/Procedural-Melodrama
(Oil Rig) (UK) - Oil Rig/Procedural-Kitchen Sink
Ok --- (US) - American expats in an African outback/Procedural-Kitchen Sink
One Tree Hill (US) - School in North Carolina/Procedural-Drama
Payton Place (US) - Rich Town/Kitchen Sink
Peak Practice (UK) - Doctors' Surgery in the Peak District/Procedural-Kitchen Sink
Press Gang (UK) - Teen newspaper editers/Procedural-Gritty Drama
*Prisoner Cell Block H * (Aus) - Women's Prison/Procedural-Gritty Drama *
Quincy, M.D (US) - Forensic Series/Procedural-Melodrama
(Removal Man) (UK) - Removal Man/Procedural-Kitchen Sink
The Royale (UK) - Spin Off from Heartbeat;- 1960's Hospital/Procedural-Kitchen Sink 
St Elsewhere (US) - Hospital/Procedural-Gritty Drama
The Sweeney (UK) - Police Series/Procedural-Drama
The Walton's (US)  - range out in country country/Kitchen Sink 
Where The Heart Is (UK) - Village in Yorkshire/Kitchen Sink
Wild At Heart (UK) - British Expats in an African animal sanctory, Vetinary Surgeons/Procedural-Kitchen Sink


SOAP OPERA (continuing plot led drama situated in a neighbourhood, institution or workplace.  Melodramatic)

The Archers (every once a while fans get angry when it becomes more melodramatic) (UK) - Farming Community/Melodrama
The Bold And The Beautiful (US) -  2 competing Fashion Houses/Melodrama
Brookside (90's onwards) Liverpudlian Close/Gritty Drama-Melodrama
Canary Wharf (UK)  - Television Studios/Melodrama
Coronation Street (mid 90's onwards) Street on outskirts of Manchester/Gentle Melodrama
Crossroads (occasionally the original; but the reboot leant towards melodrama) (UK) -  Motel/Drama
* Days Of Our Lives * (US)  Medical Series inititally; set in /Melodrama *
Doctors (UK) -  Doctor's Surgery/Melodrama
EastEnders (UK) (from the 90's) - East end street in London/ Gritty Drama-Melodrama
Elderado (UK) (a few weeks before it was axed)
Emmerdale (UK) (after the plane crash in 1993)
Familie (Bel) - /Melodrama
Family Affairs (UK) - West London Street/Melodrama
General Hospital (US) - Hospital/Melodrama
Guiding Light (US) - Melodrama
Hollyoaks (UK) (after late 90's) - Student Life initially within a Fictional Village outside of Chester/Melodrama
Home & Away (Up until 2011) (Aus) - Childrens Boarding Houses/Melodrama
Model's Inc (US) - Fashion Houses/Melodrama
Neighbours (Aus) - Suburb/Melodrama
Night And Day (UK) - -Street in Greenwich London/Melodrama
Passions (US) - Seaside Town/Melodrama
Pobol Y Cwm (UK) - Welsh/Kitchen Drama (with bouts of melodrama)
Point Blank (US) -  /got melodramatic once 
Return To Eden (Aus) - Suburb with 2 friends/Melodrama 
Secrets And Lies (US) - /Melodrama 
Sons And Daughters (Aus) - /Melodrama
Sunset Beach (US) - Californian Beach/Melodrama
The Young And The Restless (US)  - Rich /Melodrama 

SOAP SERIAL (melodramatic serial soap or one that focusses on the love lives of the characters rather than their work.  Soap Serial's in institutions lean towards melodrama rather than issues that effect typical lives for those people.)

Baywatch Nights (US) - Spin off from Baywatch;- beach in Los Angeles/Gentle Melodrama 
The Bill (UK) (2002-2005) - Police Station/Gentle Melodrama
Boon (UK) - Police Series/Gentle Melodrama
Dallas (US) - Texan Oil tycoons/Melodrama
Desperate Housewives (US) - Rich Suburbia of Housewives/Melodrama
Dream Team (UK) - Footballers in a premiership football team/Melodrama 
Dynasty (US) - Fashion Houses/Melodrama
Entourage (US) - Young guys in New York/Melodrama 
*ER * (US) - Hospital/Gentle Melodrama*
Footballers Wives (UK) - Wives with husbands in an English premiership football team/Melodrama 
Gossip Girl (US) - high school girls in New York/Melodrama 
Grange Hill (UK) - Secondary school in London/Gentle Melodrama
Holby City (UK) - Spin Off from Casualty;- Hospital/Melodrama
Home And Away (Aus) (from 2011) - moving away from Childrens' Boarding Houses to the surfing community in which it is based/Melodrama
Knots Landing (US) - Spin off from Dallas;- Lives Of the Oil tycoons in a Texan outback/Melodrama
Melrose Place (US) - Sister show of Beverly Hills 90210.  Initially a drama in a Melrose apartment block, then after series 1 it switched to a/Melodrama
90210 (US) (reboot) -Beverly Hills High School/Melodrama
The O.C (US) - Rich Suburban High School in California/Melodrama
Pretty Little Liars (US) - Rich high school girls in Los Angeles/Melodrama 
Rock Rivals (UK) - contestants and judges on a TV singing talent competition/Melodrama 
Savannah (US) - Bar/Melodrama
Six Feet Under (US) - Undertakers & their family/Drama
Waterloo Road (UK) - Secondary School/Melodrama

Reality And Factural TV Types, Part 1

CONSTRUCTED REALITY AND REALITY SHOWS

Constructed Reality Shows are programmes where parts or somes scenes from the show has been created for dramatic purposes.  According to the BAFTA website parts of the events are devised by producers beforehand.  
Unconstructed reality shows are similar to Docu- Soaps, however they differ because they are set within communities or homes rather than in a work setting.

Constructed Reality Shows
(Brazilian version of the Simple Life) (Bra)
(Canadian version of the Simple Life) (Can)
Desperate Scousewives (UK) (Channel 4)
Geordie Shore (UK; addapted from US series) (MTV)
(German version of Simple Life) (Ger)
The Hills (US) (E4/ VIVA The Hits)
(Holk Hogan) (US) 
Joadie Shore (US) (MTV)
Keeping Up With The Kardashian's (US) (VIVA The Hits)
Made In Chelsea (UK) (Channel 4)
The Only Way Is Essex (UK) (ITV2/Be)
The Real World (US) (Channel 4)
(Serbian version of the Simple Life) (Ser)
The Simple Life (US)(E4/Channel 4/ The Hits)  ~
The Valleys (UK) (MTV)

Unconstructed Reality Shows
(Amy Child & other person in an edition of Simple Life) (UK)
(Amy Child) (UK) (Channel 5)
Ashley Simpson (US) (MTV/TMF)
Being N Dubz (UK) (Channel 4)
(Britney) (US)
Callum, Dan & Dangerous Dennan (UK) (ITV2)
(celebrities locked in a room with someone who annoys them) (UK) (ITV2)
(Chris Eubank) (UK) (Channel 5)
Educating Joey Essex (UK) (ITV2)
(Essex Women) (UK) (ITV1)
(Girls Aloud) (UK) (Channel 4)
Jean Claude Van Damme (UK) (ITV4)
Katie Price & Peter Andre (UK)
Newlyweds: Jessica and Nick (US) (MTV)
The Osborne's (US) (Channel 4/E4)
(Peter Andre) (UK) (ITV2)
Princess Nikki (UK) (Channel 4)  ~
7 Days (UK) (Channel 4)
The Real Housewives Of Orange County (US) (Channel 4) 
.........................................Atlanta (US)
.........................................Beverly Hills (US)
.........................................Miami (US)
.........................................New York City (US)
.........................................Washington D.C (US)
(The Saturdays) (UK) (ITV2)
What Katie Did Next (UK) (ITV2)

~ Indicates my favourite in each sub genre

comedy types in television

COMEDY NON DRAMA

Bansai
Brass Eye
Charlie Brooker's Newdwipe
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe
Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe
Charlie Brooker's Yearly Wipe
Harry Hill's TV Burp
Grumpy Old Men
Grumpy Old Women
Off Their Rockers
Room 101 (first run)
The Ten O'Clock Show
The Today Show


COMEDY DRAMA

Ally Macbeal
At Home With The Braithwaite's
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Cold Feet
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Extras
Gavin And Stacey
Just Good Friends
Last Tango In Halifax
The Office
Outnumbered
Parks And Recreation
Peep Show
Sex And The City
Shameless
Teachers
This Life


COMEDY SKETCH SHOW

Cambridge Revue
Dare To Believe
The Fast Show
Hale And Pace
Harry Enfield And Chums
Headcases
Katie Brand Big Ass Show
The Kevin Bishop Show
The League Of Gentleman
S&M
Spitting Image
2D TV


PANAL SHOW

Big Fat Quiz
8 Out Of 10 Cat's
8 Out Of 10 Cat's Does Countdown
Have I Got News For You
Just A Minute
Never Mind The Buzzcocks
QI
A Question Of Sport
Room 101 (current show)
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Would I Lie To You


SITCOM

'Allo 'Allo
Are You Being Served
Birds Of A Feather
The Brady Bunch
Blackadder
Cheers
Comming Of Age
The Cosby Show
Dad's Army
Diff'rent Strokes
The Dinnerladies
Father Ted
Fawty Towers
Friends
Fraiser
The Good Life
Grown Up's
Happy Days
Hi - Di - Hi
Joey
Just A Giglo
Keeping Up Appearances
The Last Of The Summer Wine
The Likely Lads
Married With Children
The Munsters
The Munsters Today
My Family
One Foot In The Grave
Only Fools And Horses
Porridge
Red Dwarf
Rising Damp
The Royal Family
Star Stories
Steptoe And Son
The 3rd Rock From The Sun
30 Rock
Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps
2 Point 4 Children
Whatever Happened To The Likely Lad's?
Who's The Boss?


STAND UP COMEDY

Comic Relief 2005
Eddie Izzard
Jasper Carrot
Jimmy Carr
Live At The Apollo
Paddy MacGuinness
Peter Kay
The Policeman's Ball
Ricky Gervais
Victoria Wood

Now, What's The Difference From A Television Sitcom And A Comedy Drama?

A comedy drama differs from a sitcom if it features most of the following attributes.

1/ Drama directs the plot not the comedy.
2/ Tragicomedy, whereby the comedy often acts as a light relief to the drama
3/ The absence of a live studio audience or a laughter track
4/ Usually longer episode's than a sitcom, an hour to 45 minutes rather than 30 - 25 minutes
5/ The shop's narrative doesn't have to takes place in a specific or unusual 'situation'
6/ Events follow up throughout the series and are alluded to in future episodes

Some sitcoms and comedy drama's share attributes from both, however usually the show will have a particular feel of either a sitcom or a comedy drama.  Here's a list of Comedy Drama's past and present:

Ally Macbeal
At Home With The Braithwaite's
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Clocking Off
Cold Feet
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Extras
Gavin And Stacey
Just Good Friends
Last Tango In Halifax
Linda Green
The Office
Outnumbered
Parks And Recreation
Peep Show
Sex And The City
Shameless
Teachers
This Life
Ugly Betty

What's The Difference Between The Erotic Film And The Pornographic Film?

1/ Stimulates a range of emotions, not just sexual arousal.  Such emotions including fear, joy or anger, etc
2/ Compelling narrative and message
3/ Portrays some of the negative consequences of sexual behaviour such as pregnancy, STD's, sexual dysfunction and rejection, etc
4/ Strong characterization (especially female characters)
5/ There is a variation in the portrayal of looks, ages and physique in the erotic film, whereas pornographic films portray young busty blonde woman and young muscular men
6/ The erotic film is not just about sex. In fact some erotic films contain no sexual scenes at all, but may instead emphasise fetishism (eg: Sex Lies And Videotape, The Secretary, Shiver)
7/ Lacking in hard core scenes, the erotic movie emphasis the body beautiful and not sexual activity

Some Examples of Erotic Films
Basic Instinct 1 & 2
50 Shade's Of Grey
Intimacy
Sex, Lies And Videotape
The Secretary
Shiver
Sliver (David Cronnenberg's 1970's original)
9 1/2 Weeks
Eyes Wide Shut
Last Tango In Paris
The Pillow Book Letters
Poison Ivy (1990's original)
Crash (1990's David Cronnenberg film)
Striptease
Showgirls