Essays on Television

Introduction Prison Break is an American television serial drama created by Paul Scheuring for Fox. The series revolves around two brothers, Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) and Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller). The genre is: Serial drama, crime drama and action thriller. English, Spanish and Arabic –...

From Wentworth Miller to Dominic Purcell to Amaury Nolasco and Sarah Wayne Callies, Prison Break, at the height of its popularity was a vehicle in making these actors popular, particularly Sarah Wayne Callies who played Sara Tancredi on the show. She has continued to maintain...

On crime TV shows, they have been based on criminal investigations. In crime shows, everyone is helping to do several tasks. In real situations, a specific task is always given to an individual worker who knows that job. In crime shows and reality, detectives, crime-scene...

We profile life through many facets of our own being: gender wise, ethnicity wise, religion wise, et cetera but at the same time, we are judged and misjudged based on these very same categories making us the profilers of life, profiled. This theme displays itself...

Criminal Mind is a critically and commercially acclaimed television show in America. The show which was created by Jeff Davis began airing on CBS network on September 22, 2005. The American police drama tells the tale of a group of FBI behavioral profilers who use...

Shemar Moore played Derek Morgan on the CBS crime drama, Criminal Minds. He has been in Hollywood for more than two decades, specializing on the small screen, though he has a number of films under his belts. He joined the cast in 2005, had 11...

As we await the release of the final season of the crime drama TV series Criminal Minds, we would use this opportunity to dissect some interesting facts about the highly-rated American TV show. Among the bothering questions that will be answered in this article is...

Television programs have assumed control over daytime TV. As show watchers, one can deduce that many differ in style and substance just as the host speaking in the show. Some are more well-known than others are. Two hosts who are exceptionally fruitful in this day...

Have you ever seen televison shows like CSI Los Angeles and Criminal Minds? Some of these T.V. shows are completely outrageous. But some are real and are based on actually cases in real life. The problem with these shows are that they do not accurately...

The CSI Effect is when the line between reality and fiction becomes a blur. The name CSI Effect is based on a well-known drama series of the same name (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation), where the characters are forensic investigators based in Las Vegas. It was...

Introduction Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American entrepreneur formally known for work as a producer, TV show host, actress, and philanthropist. Oprah has managed to stay relevant along the years through her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, where she built up a reputation and...

In recent discussions, people are saying that the show “Thirteen Reasons Why” may have a negative effect on people instead of raising awareness for suicide. On one hand, the show is meant to raise awareness for mental health. On the other hand, people believe that...

Grey’s Anatomy is an extremely popular medical drama that first appeared 2005 on American Broadcasting Company, better known as ABC. The television show is based around Meredith Grey, played by Ellen Pompeo, and her journey through internship, residency, and eventually her role as an attending...

Anyone familiar with Grey’s Anatomy will agree that the show is over dramatized. The show writer, Shonda Rhimes, tries to add more drama to the show to make it more interesting. The show can be misleading on how hospitals run. Although it has not been...

“It’s a wonderful day to save lives.” Now you might be figuring, I may have heard this idiom previously. It is one of the most well-known expressions on Grey’s Anatomy. A network show about a gathering of doctors and nurses who work at a medical...

Pretty Little Liars, is based on the Sara Shepard’s novels taken place in Rosewood, Pennsylvania. The books and the TV show are two different things, the character names are same, but the storyline and the characters personalities are way different. Throughout, the first four seasons...

As a nation of immigrants, American society is composed of major groups such as White and a variety of minority groups such as African American, Latino, Asian, and Native American and so on. As the number of immigrants increased over a long period of time,...

The Sopranos is a Drama with 6 seasons and its first episode was aired on January 10, 1999 and the final episode was aired on June 10,2007 with a total of 86 episodes.The Sopranos is David Chase’s produced American crime drama television series. The story...

The Mafia is an organized crime network that has evolved over time in Sicily. The Mafia has gangs all over Italy and the United States. Initially the Mafia had no criminal connotations and was simply a group that was formed to carry out their own...