Sentence examples for and opportunity knocks from inspiring English sources

Amateur competitions including New Faces (ITV, 1973-88) and Opportunity Knocks (ITV, 1964-78) were popular without ever becoming the phenomena that their loose descendants – The X Factor and (since 2007) Britain's Got Talent – represent.

Downton joined schedules in which two of the biggest hits – Strictly Come Dancing and Britain's Got Talent – would be entirely familiar to a viewer who suddenly tuned in again after switching off their set in the 1970s: as variations on Come Dancing and Opportunity Knocks.

I understand why the chief executive is moving with dispatch (a mash-up of legacy building and opportunity knocks).

He struggled to carve out a wider range, and opportunity knocked when he landed the role of the lawyer James Wyler in the critically acclaimed series "Murder One" in 1996.

Hughie Green, Most Sincerely 9pm, BBC4 Stained with whisky and tobacco smoke from the era when hypocrisy was a way of life, this much-trailed biopic reveals the late quiz master and host of Opportunity Knocks to have been a shit of heroic proportions.

I once sang a song to him and he said he would call up Hughie Green and get me on Opportunity Knocks.

But the actor and producer has two more programs in the pipeline: a game show called "Opportunity Knocks" and an untitled beauty pageant show.

Gone for ever, probably for the best, is the world of Hughie Green, Opportunity Knocks, and the Clap-o-meter, contained within a wooden box and measuring, approximately, audience reaction.

On ABC: The British-inspired drama "Life on Mars" and the game show "Opportunity Knocks".

The following year, Daniels made his TV debut on talent series Opportunity Knocks, and came second.

Born into a Scottish-Italian chip-shop owning family, she becomes a child star thanks to Hughie Green's Opportunity Knocks and then develops anorexia nervosa.