The word "drama" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to works of art or literature with a focus on plot and dramatic action such as plays, novels, or films, or to refer to a situation involving a lot of emotion or conflict. Example: The drama in the courtroom was palpable as the jury read out the verdict.
The next series of another homegrown drama hit, the BBC's Torchwood, is being co-produced with US cable channel Starz – adding American stars including Bill Pullman – while Episodes is itself a co-production between Showtime and the corporation.
Pattinson had a rather different experience with Skins than he did with ITV1 family drama Wild at Heart, which was remade for the CW Network in the US – renamed Life Is Wild – four years ago.
Sembène takes this brilliant scenario (based on a true story) and turns it into a chess game of multiple characters, an engrossing drama about African religion and, underneath that, a film about African pride.
Pompeii didn't exactly get his film career off to a strong start, and he was hardly the best thing in first world war drama Testament of Youth.
Separately, the controller of drama commissioning Ben Stephenson forked out £1,272.94 for a "development meeting" with "key drama indies" on 17 August, which 19 guests attended at a cost to the licence-fee payer of just under £70 a head.
But in Prey, Chris Lunt's tense, gut-wrenching drama about John Simm's cop going on the run after his family is slaughtered, she was just exceptional.
What's more, this sort of drama feels genuinely new: beyond the odd episode of Doctor Who and Quantum Leap, speculative alternate histories are rarely told on TV.
So while British TV critics regularly – and often justifiably – lament that the best drama is made in America, UK series are now enjoying unprecedented success in the US.
And the UK's new high-end TV drama tax credit has attracted a lot of US producers to actually shoot here: BFI figures show that, in its first year of operation, the tax credit attracted £225m of inward investment.
Industrial-scale US network shows also don't necessarily punch through in the way that a short-run British drama can.
