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Trends in the production of TV series which mention the NSA

The bump chart shows the evolution of TV series which quote the NSA from 1968 to nowadays. The production of TV series concerned with NSA started to increase massively in 2002 with 22 episodes (6 episodes in 2001). Such growth coincides with 9/11 and subsequent increase of security measures.

Some peaks emerge: the first one in 2003 with 28 episodes, then in 2005, 2007, 2011 and the last one in 2014 with 89 episodes.

The greatest part of these episodes is classified as drama but there is an interesting genre turnover between 2001 and 2011.

TREND - The chart shows how many episodes mentioning NSA were broadcasted each year.



GENRES - In the diagram each genre is represented with a stream whose size represents the number of episodes classified with that genre in a certain year. Below the main graph there is a stacked bar which shows the total number of episodes contained in each genre.



DATA EXTRACTED FROM: Subzin, IMDb.






TOTAL EPISODES: 604

1968 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2014 1970 EPISODES PER YEAR 89 5 36 61 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 2002 2003 21 2001 5 28 GENRES Horror Horror Horror Fantasy Fantasy Fantasy Adventure Adventure Adventure Thriller Thriller Thriller Comedy Comedy Comedy Sci-fi Sci-fi Sci-fi Mystery Mystery Mystery Crime Crime Crime Action Action Action Drama Drama Drama
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