In 2004, for instance, ESPN cancelled its series "Playmakers," a fictionalized drama about life in professional football, after a series of complaints from the league.
In its he says that he was inspired to tell a "compelling, fictionalized drama... centering on a young midwestern [sic] gay man who is kicked out of his home for his sexuality and comes to New York, befriending the people who are actively involved in the events leading up to the riots and the riots themselves".
It's been 40 years since the June 20 , 1974 opening of "Chinatown," the fictionalized drama about power, corruption and what is arguably L.A.'s most crucial resource: water.
Such agonizing images bring home the war in a way no news report or fictionalized drama ever could.
The intersection of genuine social issues and fictionalized drama can take audiences somewhere different and new.
Australia-born filmmaker John Hillcoat directs this violent period drama, a fictionalized account of the exploits of the real-life Bondurant boys, brothers who made a name for themselves -- and powerful enemies -- during the Prohibition era by becoming the most successful bootleggers in Virginia.
But one of Officer Valle's lawyers, Julia L. Gatto, in her summation, likened her client's writings to the 1938 radio drama "War of the Worlds," a fictionalized depiction of a Martian invasion of Earth that led to fear and panic.
Back on a stage in a significant play for the first time since 1981, when she portrayed a fictionalized version of the young master cellist Jacqueline du Pré in the Broadway drama "Duet for One," Ms. Bancroft has taken on the part of another larger-than-life figure, the sculptor Louise Nevelson.
It erupts into fictionalized dramas or fanciful films, but its most substantive exhibition, an extensive history of United States slavery, anxiously crams in material as if making up for lost opportunities elsewhere in the cavernous building.
A fictionalized version of the events of this election were presented in third and fourth seasons of The Wire, a drama about crime and politics in Baltimore, which aired in 2004 and 2006, respectively.
