Presented By: Dilawar Ali

Drama as we know it got its start back in ancient Greece. Many of the plays written during the Classical period, from 525 BC to 385 BC.

Radio drama achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its initial development in the 1920s. By the 1940s, it was a leading international popular entertainment.

From the earliest time of television - I think I'm going back to the 1950s , At one time, dramas were two hour movies where you had a predictable beginning, a three act structure, and an end.

They decided to go ahead and allow that spill-over by having episodes continue with arcs that went through multiple episodes.

“A literary composition that tells a story, usually of human conflict, by means of dialogue and action, to be performed by actors called a drama or play”

Television in Pakistan started in 1964, and the first live transmission of Pakistan Television began on November 26, 1964, in Lahore.

Originally a private sector project in 1961 by prominent industrialist Syed Wajjid Ali who signed a joint venture agreement with Nipon Electric Company (NEC) of Japan, leading Pakistani engineer Ubaidur Rahmanwas appointed by Wajjid Ali to head the television project.

By 1962, after a series of pilot transmission tests, the project was quickly taken over by the Ayub Khan Government in 1963 for the "greater national interest of Pakistan". President Ayub Khan re-appointed UbaidurRahman in 1963.

Creative originators

Higher profile

Judging the quality means

judging the writing

Structure ,personal vision,

style and expectations about society

The sociologist Pierre Bourdieu 19884 argues that the culture products are best than those which comes by the most educated and wealthy segment of population.

Due to social power Elites claim their taste are good than others. Good television and bad television. What the largest number of viewers seemed and want. It refers to public service and program expertise or visual structural kinds

which makes quality for TV.

Definition:

“A television or cinema production set in a particular historical period, in which the actors wear costumes typical of that period.”

Adaptation of 19th century literature, dresses in that dramas are always attract the family and young abundance.

Its expensive to produce in twenty century. Traditionally adaptions always be a good seem as significant quality

programming but not always the ratings winners they used to be.

TV produced a mass culture where culture values had been lost. Mass culture seems to be overwhelm society and driven out quality. Viewers judge the quality in terms of technical (good acting, sets, camera

work etc.) The key indicator within the television industry is the size of the

audience, distribution of age groups and social classes.