Sentence examples for hold viewer from inspiring English sources

The reality show at least is alarming and amusing enough to hold viewer attention.

To combat viewers' fast forwarding through ads, TiVo plans to ask customers to fill out a profile so TiVo can customize the ads it delivers to people in order to better hold viewer interest.

It's hard to hold viewers' attention in this world of quick-click-access to hundreds of other channels.

It was firmly believed that you could only hold viewers on their sofas for two hours with a Hollywood hit.

The thriller featured an intricate plot, which was undermined by studio cuts, but the strong cast which included Burt Lancaster, Dennis Hopper, Rutger Hauer, and John Hurt was able to hold viewers' interest.

If the BBC can't find good enough writers to hold viewers for two one-hour episodes, then change the format.

That is easier said than done, Mr. Pilot acknowledged, recalling a year's worth of "pod-buster concepts we thought would hold viewers".

The Democratic convention appears at this point to have been the more lavish affair, with more screens, monitors and imagery to hold viewers' attention.

(Even the pediatric surgeon never seems to be paged during a meal.) But none of the characters are strong or odd enough to hold viewers' attention for long.

Since a confession tape is "just a guy talking," says the executive, it may not hold viewers without some added visual texture.

"It is outrageous and wrong for Fox to use baseball and football games to hold viewers hostage and extract tens of millions of dollars from Cablevision customers," the Cablevision spokesman Charles Schueler said in a statement.