But sometimes a network is faced with a different tale--that of the expectation-laden disappointment.
Rock was already facing an expectation-laden crowd at the NBRs, his appearance having been unexpectedly teased to earlier in the show by award winner Scott Eyman (the critic said he was hoping everyone would cut 30 seconds out of their speeches so Rock could do 10 minutes).
Mothers deserve better than the restrictive yet overwhelming expectations they are laden with; fathers deserve better than the patronising one-dimensional image of them as cavemen unable to grapple with domestic life.
The attack on the World Trade Center exceeded even bin Laden's expectations: he had expected only the floors above the plane strikes to collapse.
But The Golden Compass was far more expensive and laden with expectation.
American intelligence officials described the murder as a pre-emptive strike by Mr. bin Laden in expectation of the United States turning to the Northern Alliance after the attacks in September.
The full-page ad, which appeared in this newspaper on Oct. 12, is dominated by a head-and-shoulders photograph of three dewy teenage models, their perfect faces nestled together like roses in a vase, their expressions vacant yet laden with expectation.
Clubbing – as I've previously documented – can be fraught with difficulties and the majority of these come when you come laden with expectation.
Ms. White's prosecutorial experience — she supervised the original investigation into Osama bin Laden — raised expectations for her enforcement agenda at the S.E.C.
Bush's disastrous invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq exceeded all of bin Laden's expectations, even if Isis has now largely supplanted al-Qaida.
The production is in the spirit of the recent Measure for Measure –a bold make-over that is out to grab the kind of youthful audience that doesn't come laden with expectations, traditionalist or otherwise.
