Questions like how have TV crime drama changed and how they will develop in the future are interesting ones though and even if they dont come up as a question on their own could be added on to discussions in question 1 and question 3 anyway... I guess TV Crime Drama like any genre as developed by becoming less generic and adding characters (such as Dexter) who operate as one or two different character roles. Audiences are broed of watching the same formulaic 'cops chasing baddy' style shows from the 70s and we get now a much wider genre in terms of how characters and narratives of the show include a wide variety of themes and setting (e.g The wire) in which all angles of the criminal cycle are explored.
Also i was watching BBC the other day and they had this inetresting clip about how Sherlock has just been remade for American Audiences with Lucy Liu as Watson.. the link to the video is here :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18261136
Anyways.....
Good luck for the exam and remember if you can get into each question or at least somewhere on you exam paper:
- 10 media words (write them down at the top of your paper the first chance you get and cross them off as you use them )
- 2 statistics about TV crime drama popularity
- 1 or 2 examples of Media theory (U+G theory and Utopian solutions are Staaaandard bruv!)
Bless / Safe / Peace etc etc