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Taiwanese Drama (traditional Chinese: 台灣電視劇; pinyin: Táiwān Diànshìjù; commonly called TDrama or TWDrama by fans) refers to televised dramas of extended stories usually dramatizing relationships through the general range of ten to forty one-hour episodes. They are produced in Taiwan and have gained increasing popularity in the Mando community internationally. The term "Taiwanese drama" is applied to Taiwanese miniseries in general, even including those with greater elements of comedy than of drama.

Many of these dramas have become popular throughout East Asia. Most popular Taiwanese dramas are also popular in China, Japan, Philippines and South Korea. Taiwan dramas are often dubbed into Japanese, Korean and sometime Cantonese when imported into those markets.

Taiwanese dramas are also well known among expatriate overseas Taiwanese and overseas Chinese, especially Taiwanese-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Chinese-Canadians, Chinese-Australians, and their second-generation and third-generation descendants. Fan clubs have appeared in other countries outside Taiwan dedicated to the appreciation of Taiwanese drama. Fan clubs also involved several countries in Asia and elsewhere.

Taiwanese dramas are typically produced in Standard Mandarin. Less commonly, they may be produced in Taiwanese Hokkien. Commonly characters will speak predominantly in Mandarin, but pepper their speech with Taiwanese.

Taiwanese dramas typically focus more on romance than other television dramas.[citation needed] Crime dramas, police dramas, lawyer dramas, and doctor dramas are less common in Taiwan than romantic dramas. Taiwanese dramas tend to have less violence and sexual content than many other soap operas and primetime dramas.

Source: Wikipedia