The three important events in a serial is
First visit to the temple: ganesh,durga,kalli,krishna
Second comes visit to the jail this visit is a must just like vaccination to new born. If no visit then no maza.
Third comes visit to the hospital: it is such sweet place just like the bedroom in your house, only thing advisable to the actors is they better get some samosa to the sets on the day of the hospital shooting, u know lots of tomato sauce is wasted. Ofcourse chances of red ink being used is also possible so they better take with them ink pens so that they can fill them.
They show praying to god so many times, trust me these gods would have really got fed up, that also in such a way that they will not be able to distinguish between real prayer and fake prayers! They show praying so many times that the gods like ganesh, kalli, durga and krishna will surely lend deaf ears to the faithful deities, what to do it will be wrong on our part to blame gods, it is the serials to be blamed.
Visit to the jail staying in the police custody brings with it social stigma and social isolation, of the convicts in their later lives, but TV is an exception, visit to the jail is thing of status and respect! If they don't send their heroes and heroines into the jail their serial don't even proceed!
Visit to the hospital is reality lots of tension anxiety and money drain is associated with it. But in TV they show people visiting hospital for the so-called casual diseases in the tele world like-amnesia, blood cancer, and brain tumor and of course accident and not to forget Coma!