6-541: Breaker High is a teen comedy-drama series that ran from 1997 to 1998, airing on YTV in Canada and on UPN 's weekday " Kids " block in the United States. The series was created by Cori Stern, while David Winning directed the pilot and seven episodes of the series. Ownership of the series passed to Disney in 2001 when Disney acquired Fox Kids Worldwide , which also includes Saban Entertainment . The series
12-468: A humorous tenor. In television, modern scripted comedy dramas tend to have more humour integrated into the story than the comic relief common in drama series but usually contain a lower joke rate than sitcoms . In the very influential Greek theatre , plays were considered comedies or tragedies. This concept even influenced Roman theatre and theatre of the Hellenistic period . Theatre of that era
18-519: A rise in film and television works that could be described as comedy-dramas. The term is a translation from the French "comédie dramatique". The portmanteau "dramedy" came to be in the 1980s. In January 2022, Rafael Abreu, writing for the StudioBinder filmmaking blog, defined this genre as follows: A dramedy is a movie or program that balances the elements of a drama and a comedy. Also known as
24-453: Is set at a high school located on a cruise ship (equivalent to the real Semester at Sea program), allowing the episodes to be set in different exotic locations, although the series was, in fact, filmed entirely in Burnaby , British Columbia . Like most series of its kind, it featured events such as dating, finances, and friendship, although as a daytime series, it tended to steer away from
30-541: Is thought to have long-lasting influence, even in modern narrative works. Even today, works are often classified into two broad buckets, dramas and comedies. For instance, many awards that recognize achievements in film and television today, such as the Primetime Emmy Awards and the Golden Globe Awards segregate several award categories into these two classifications. The 20th century saw
36-494: The "tougher" situations (pregnancy, sexuality, etc.) outlined in other primetime teen dramas at the time. The series currently airs on MTV and MTV2 , and recently on OutTV (Canadian TV channel) in Canada. Comedy-drama Comedy drama , also known by the portmanteau dramedy , is a hybrid genre of works that combine elements of comedy and drama . In films, serious dramatic themes (such as death, illness, etc.) are dealt with realism and subtlety, while preserving
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