Sentence examples for standalone dramas from inspiring English sources

No, this is a series of standalone dramas.

There is a trio of standalone dramas: a two-part adaptation of William Boyd's Restless; a Victoria Wood-penned tale of the pianist Joyce Hatto in Loving Miss Hatto; and Toby Jones and Sienna Miller starring in The Girl, the story of Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren.

So does it work as a standalone drama?

But the BBC have confirmed that it should be seen as a standalone drama.

Older consumers and creators of TV often lament that the standalone drama is dead.

Each episode will be a standalone drama adapted and made contemporary by a team of British and American writers, "both illustrating Philip K Dick's prophetic vision and celebrating the enduring appeal of his work".

Because these moments of being – the fizzling out of a love affair, progress in a career, the pain of losing a child, the sudden certainty of death approaching – stand at the core of each episode, each part also succeeds as a standalone drama, and can be listened to out of sequence.

Based on Andy Merriman's Hattie: The Authorised Biography of Hattie Jacques, and bearing marked similarities to previous standalone BBC dramas on, among others, Tony Hancock, Hughie Green, Frankie Howerd and Fanny Cradock, Hattie is the latest example of Auntie's enduring preoccupation with the closets of our dead light-ent favourites.

Behind the Candelabra was commissioned for HBO television but is shown here in the Cannes festival competition as a standalone feature-length drama: a bizarre anti-Pinocchio parable in which the power of loneliness and toxic love transform a handsome young man into a deeply unhappy, plump-nosed, cleft-chinned latex doll.

Playing with Fire, a standalone novel, draws its drama from Tess's passion as an accomplished musician.

They wanted to find a balance between standalone stories and serialized content, and studied procedural dramas such as Law and Order and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation for inspiration.