Titlebook: Biographical Television Drama; Hannah Andrews Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021 Television Studies.Intimacy.T

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Narratives,ws with screenwriters, it discusses the process of reconstructing lives in specifically televisual narrative forms. It concludes by comparing how the life of nineteenth-century entrepreneur Anne Lister has been dramatised in both a single drama and a series that adopts methods of serialisation common to contemporary television drama.

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Adaptations,at are claimed as the evidentiary basis for the biographical drama. It explores how promotional materials invoke these sources to frame the programmes in discourses of fact. It concludes with a case study of . (BBC Four, 2004) that explores how a pre-existing text, in this case a bestselling political memoir, is adapted to television series form.

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Representations,ts, replica costumes or imitative styling, are employed to enhance the text’s truth claims. It then looks at how television actors vary performance style to convey biographical characters’ public personae as well as the private individual beneath. It explores self-conscious style, where biographical

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Reputations,he personnel involved in programme-making) and of the broadcast institution. The first part explores the ethical dimension of television drama, considering issues such as the privacy rights of the subject and the biographer’s responsibilities to truth. The chapter also examines how broadcast regulat

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Conclusion,ama, whether in discourses of ‘authenticity’ and ‘accuracy’ or as a more essential quality that is best conveyed using the devices of fiction. The chapter then considers value in two interrelated senses: ethical values of accuracy respect for the dignity of the biographical subject and cultural eval