Sub- Genres

In any genre there are identifiable sub-classes that share conventions with the genres but also have their own distinctive subject matter, style, formulas, and iconography. 


TV Crime Drama has its own sub-genres. There are many different ways of categorising these programmes below are some examples.


Individual Detective: eg Morse


Female Detective: Miss Marple


Paired Detective: Starsky and Hutch


Forensic: Silent Witness


Police Procedural: The Bill


American: CSI


Period: Life On Mars


Post-Modern: Dexter