Drames à clef (Television programs)

Fictional television programs in which real persons, places, or events are depicted under invented names. For television programs that depict the lives of real people see [Biographical television programs.]

found: Work cat.: Warotenka, 2018(A television drame à clef about a woman who started a comedy club ("yose") in late Meije-era. Based on the true story of Yoshimoto Sei, the founder of Yoshimoto Kōgyō; Originally broadcast on NHK as a television mini-series from October, 2017 to March, 2018)

found: TV tropes website, Nov. 25, 2019(Roman à Clef: A fictional account of Real Life events, loaded with Captain Ersatzes of real people. These are often autobiographical or Ripped from the Headlines. These differ from Inspired by... and Very Loosely Based on a True Story in that the story is not dramatized, merely retold with different proper nouns; Television examples: Entourage is based on Mark Wahlberg's meteoric rise to fame and notoriety; The characters of Ron and Mark on Parks and Recreation are loosely based on real people whom the creators met while researching the show; The BBC adaptation of novelist/university lecturer Malcolm Bradbury's The History Man; The Empress of China covers Tang Taizong's expedition to Goguryeo using this method, by changing the names of the Korean places and persons involved)

found: Frames and fictions on television, 2000:p. 75 (Peter Flannery's 1990s political epic Our Friends in the North; drew much of its authority from a close shadowing of documented events, most notably the local government housing scandals in the north-east during the 1960s involving the politician T. Dan Smith, the architect John Poulson and the Tory cabinet minister Reginald Maudling. With these and several other characters modelled on real-life figures ... this was a saga partly readable as the televisual equivalent of a political roman a clef.)

Fictional television programs in which real persons, places, or events are depicted under invented names. For television programs that depict the lives of real people see [Biographical television programs.]