Movies + Television Flashcards
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Telly
(British, Informal) A telly is a television Could you tell the telly fans what this is all about, Marshal Cogswell?
Episode
Episode
Series
Series
Soap opera
A soap opera is a popular television drama series about the daily lives and problems of a group of people who live in a particular place.
Documentary
A documentary is a television or radio program, or a movie, which shows real events or provides information about a particular subject. …a TV documentary on homelessness.
Mainstream
the principal or dominant course, tendency, or trend: the mainstream of American culture. Game of Thrones has been credited with an increased popularity of fantasy themes and mainstream acceptance of the fantasy fandom.
Sitcom
A sitcom is an amusing television drama series about a set of characters. Sitcom is an abbreviation for situation comedy comedy program based on everyday experiences What’s your favorite sitcom
Audience
The audience at a play, concert, film, or public meeting is the group of people watching or listening to it. The entire audience broke into loud applause
Viewer
Viewers are people who watch television, or who are watching a particular program on television. These programs are each watched by around 19 million viewers every week.
Turn on/off/over
to change or alter
Tune in
If you tune in to a particular television or radio station or program, you watch or listen to it. All over the country, youngsters tune in to Sesame Street every day.
Sit in front of the telly
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Broadcast
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Televise
If an event or program is televised, it is broadcast so that it can be seen on television. His comeback fight will be televised on network TV.
Witty
Someone or something that is witty is amusing in a clever way. His plays were very good, very witty. humorous, funny, amusing; clever; sharp, shrewd
Enlightening
tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance SubmitI am going to give you a beautiful and enlightening example of what I read
Mind-numbing
It was mind-numbingly boring. If you describe an event or experience as mind-numbing, you mean that it is so bad, boring, or great in extent that you are unable to think about it clearly. It was another day of mind-numbing tedium. mind-numbingly adverb …a mind-numbingly boring sport. Now, with a start he had trouble concealing, he suddenly realized a mind-numbing fact!
Televised (adj)
If an event or program is televised, it is broadcast so that it can be seen on television. His comeback fight will be televised on network TV.
Live-broadcast
TV broadcast
Attention-grabbing
Interesting An attention-grabbing remark or activity is one that is intended to make people notice it. …an attention-grabbing marketing campaign.
Pre-recorded
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Channel surf
Change TV channels frequently. I usually sit in front of the telly and channel surf.
Watch the box
I often watch the box at weekends.
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Character
Scene
Director
Cast
Plot
Character
Which character did you like the best?
🔸Scene
How that infamous bear-attack scene in ‘The Revenant’ was made?!
🔹Director
Oscar-winning director James Cameron is best known for the highly acclaimed, box-office hits Titanic and Avatar.
🔸Cast
Films like ‘Troy’ have a cast of thousands.
all the people who act in a play or film/movie:
The whole cast performs / perform brilliantly. * members of the cast * an all-star cast (= including many well-known actors) * the supporting cast (= not the main actors, but the others) * a cast list
🔹Plot
It was a good film, but the plot was difficult to follow at times.
