28/2/12 Dexter

Dexter has now been getting help from Jordan Chase who is practically his guru. They're spending more time together to get use to each others and having an insight in each others lives. His life is turned upside down however with the sudden arrival of his step-daughter Astor and her friend Olivia. They're drunk and have lied about where they are. Astor is refusing to tell Dexter what she is up to or why she is acting in such a bad of being drunk. She is also convinced that Lumen is Dexter's new girlfriend. Lumen has a conversation with Olivia that puts the girls in a new manner to escape from the house. When the girls disappear from his house, he fears that Chase is on to them and the girls have been kidnapped. Dexter is forced to reveal to his colleagues that he's been seeing Chase and they also learn about Lumen, who Dexter describes as his new flat mate. At the station meanwhile, Debra has been assigned to work in the filing room and comes across some startling information about the barrel girl murders. She also learns about Quinn's suspicions of her brother. Quinn has his own problems with Stan Liddy, who refuses to spill the beans. Dexter is an anti hero similar to Luther. He has a sense of anger some of the time and is very smart when it comes to cases. He is an intelligent detective too similar to Sherlock because he thinks of the technical side and has a different approach to finding murderers in comparison to people like Horatio.

21/2/12 NCIS

The Naval Academy's grand graduation was just about to fall that night when NCIS special agent Lara Macy's body is found near a campfire on the beach.

The agent, officially had her throat slit. She was apparently focusing upon a suspicious officer Kaylen Burrows who, according to Macy's laptop, was an uncooperative rape victim.

College student Tyler, son of Randall Hammond, was a prime suspect to the murder. His alibi didn't make any sense and then Burrows was beaten up by Burrows' fellow service members which put the case on the Hammond's even more. Tyler and Randall Hammond both harassed and assaulted Burrows but didn't kill anyone since they then found out that Macy was killed by an army knife so it wasn't tied in to her rape suspicions either.

This clicks straight to main man Gibbs and he realises that he dealt with a case that could be tied to this one also so he calculates who will be their next victim: Mike Franks. Gibbs quickly heads to the bar where Franks would be going and on his way stumbles into a body in the sand. But was it Franks? No, but Merton Bell. He suddenly gets cornered and disarmed by Lieutenant Dean who was Bell's right hand man and was linked to the death of Macy. Gibbs ends the episode by saying "Who are you really working for?"

7/2/12 The Wire

At this point in The Wire, a man named Omar Little who is homosexual with three partners during the show but this ironically doesn't hold back his status because Omar is one of the most feared people in West Baltimore, where most of the Barksdale Organization operate. The Barksdale Organization is a gang ran by Avon Barksdale which eventually gets folded and turns into Stanfield's Organization.

Little is a man who takes the drugs off people in the street and throws it away for the better but hates and wants to kill Marlo Stanfield, the leader of Stanfield's Organization. In this episode you see Omar walk down a road of drug dealers and they all run, leaving their drugs, so Omar puts all that in the bin and calls out for Marlo to come out so he can kill him.

Prior to that Omar Little walked past a few kids around a stray cat, teasing it. But Omar didn't care and just walked off but all the kids ran away from Omar apart from one, Little Kenard. Kenard is a part of Namond Brice's little circle of friends also known as the Fayette Street Mafia who used to run under Barksdale's Organization.

Omar walked in to the local chemist and as he was talking to the shopkeeper, Little Kenard comes in and shoots Omar Little in his head, immediately falling dead. Kenard looks shocked and fearful so he checks if Little is dead. He realises he's killed him and drops the gun in horror and runs away from the scene.

On the government side of things during this episode, the Major Crime Unit & Homocide Unit try to cut down on Marlo Stanfield to get more information to indict him.

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Endeavour

"Shaun Evans will step in to John Thaw’s shoes to play the younger version of Colin Dexter’s iconic character, giving the audience the chance to discover the origins of the detective famed for his love of crosswords, classical music, real ale and classic cars.
At the start of the new series, finds himself deep in a full-blown murder investigation, led by Detective Inspector Fred Thursday, and increasingly side-lined, discredited and at a dead end.
Facing down the demons of his past, Endeavour begins his own quest in pursuit of justice, risking all in the hunt for a truth that will haunt him for the rest of his days."

TNT Orders Crime-Drama Pilot From Former ‘Walking Dead’ Producer

Months after his abrupt departure from AMC’s hit zombie series, “The Walking Dead,” Frank Darabont has risen again to write, direct and produce the pilot episode of a new series for TNT, it was announced on Monday.
TNT said in a news release that it had ordered a pilot for “L.A. Noir,” adapted from John Buntin’s book of the same title, about the real-life battle between the Los Angeles Police Department and the West Coast mob from the 1930s through the ’60s. The planned series, if it is picked up by the network, will be set in the ’40s and ’50s, and focus on the conflict between the Los Angeles police chief William Parker and the mobster Mickey Cohen. Mr. Darabont, who has chronicled the criminal element (and its life behind bars) in his films “The Shawshank Redemption” and “The Green Mile,” will produce the pilot with Michael De Luca (“Moneyball,” “The Social Network”) and Elliot Webb.
Mr. Darabont previously developed “The Walking Dead” from a popular comic-book series and was its show runner during its first season. But last summer AMC announced that it was replacing Mr. Darabont with Glen Mazzara, a “Walking Dead” writer and former producer of “The Shield.” Neither the network nor Mr. Darabont has commented at much length about the circumstances that led to his exit.
Regarding his new project, Mr. Darabont said in a statement: “Noir is a passion of mine, so I feel blessed to delve into a project that speaks in the hard-boiled vernacular. John Buntin’s superb book, though nonfiction, is our touchstone and inspiration for the stories we’ll be telling, weaving fiction throughout the facts and facts throughout the fiction. The book provides elements that are irresistible, a big canvas with endless possibilities.”

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The main conventions of a TV drama are: Professions

The episodes always consist of murders in the beginning and within the episode the murderer is revealed through cases of manipulating suspects and gathering different pieces of evidence. We do not find out who committed the crime and why the murderer was committed.  The protagonists are usually one of the first real professions on the scene after the doctors appear to take the dead body. He investigates close evidence associated to the murder. The evidence goes into processes like DNA tests, witnesses being questioned and images.