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Some New Classes Of TV Series
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release 1
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by Burnin' of UNKNOWN Prez
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November 25th, 2001
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Introduction
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There have been long established classes of shows in TV like sci-fi, criminal
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series, adventure, etc. But in the 90's some new have risen in the Western
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world. Here're simple descriptions of these new classes. Several of them
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are my own inventions (atleast their names), so you'll probably find that the
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mentioned shows ain't labeled this way in TV guides.
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The classification
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Anime: cartoons produced in Asia.
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Easily noticed by the drawing style: the characters have BIG
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eyes, no anatomic details are missing (if some character
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appears naked, especially as this, unlike in western
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cartoons, *does* happen occasionally), "minimalistic" faces
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when they're angry, etc.
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Examples: "Pok‚mon", "Dragonball Z"
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Sitcoms: comedy-series.
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Most notable details: when something is meant as a joke then
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a laughing can be heard; most jokes are verbal, ie there's
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not much cake-in-the-face kind of humor
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Examples: "Friends", "Spin City", "Roseanne"
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Reality shows: action(?) shows in which several people are put together in a
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(relatively) small area (an apartment, an island, etc.) which
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they can't leave and different task are assigned to them.
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Who looses must go and the last one will win. The main idea
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of those shows is to see how people react when they're being
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filmed 24/7
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Examples: "Big Brother", "Survivor", "Gestrandet"
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Docusoaps: a 90's derivate from documentaries
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Differences from normal documentaries: many parts, mostly
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about people, done to entertain people rather than to save
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the event, done by amateurs and not serious documentalists.
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Somewhat similar to reality shows, but isn't limited to a
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small space and the event ain't being generated just to show
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it in TV.
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Examples: "Pop-stars", "Schnulleralarm"
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Info-shows: shows which talk about many non-related things. Usually
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they're 30 minutes long. A little like news, just not as
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serious and the stories are longer
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Examples: "SAM", "TAFF", "A4"
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X-series: a 90's not-completely-sci-fi series
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More precisely a criminal series which deals with
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supernatural or alien things and/or government conspiracies.
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Examples: "X-Files", "Millennium", "The Profiler"
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Also a 90's realization of the old "innocent but on the run"
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story with (almost) supernatural things and/or conspiracies
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Examples: "Dark Skies", "The Pretender", "1st Wave",
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"Visitor"
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Ranger-series: children shows with masked crime fighters.
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Most (or even all?) of these shows are/were produced by
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Saban. Story: several teenagers mutate into crime fighters
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with plastic-weapons and fight monsters. Often they are in
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vehicle which combine into a big robot. The monster is
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always defeated with a laser shot on which it drops dead and
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explodes. The main focus of these shows is the
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karate-fighting.
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Examples: "Power Rangers", "VR Troopers", "Super Human
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Smaurai Cyber Squad"
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Conclusion
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So, dear reader. If you see some x meaningless show which you couldn't
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classify before, perhaps you now can. Right before you change the channel.
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