Sentence examples for prestige series from inspiring English sources

Network shows have to fight for viewers not only against prestige series like AMC's "Mad Men," but also every form of niche reality and tabloid show, from "Duck Dynasty" on A&E to "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" on TLC.

He worked regularly in television on prestige series such as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), made highly praised features for Home Box Office and sporadically returned to the theatre.

(Not for nothing are most of these shows on FX, a network that attracts prestige series and talent but often positions itself explicitly in opposition to the deluge of sameness that is Netflix).

On Friday, at 6 p.m., the pianist Ilya Rashkovsky plays works by Rachmaninoff and Schubert for the final Prestige series recital, and Alexander Kobrin, a former gold medal winner at the Van Cliburn Piano Competition, plays a Masters series recital at 8 30, offering works by Mozart, Brahms and Tchaikovsky.

Netflix's prestige series are all two-season wonders: Jessica Jones, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, even globetrotting period drama Marco Polo, which was critically disliked and quickly forgotten (and cost $90m to build, among other things, 6,000 custom-made historically accurate 13th-century costumes) are booked for two seasons' worth of viewing.

By the beginning of the new season, he's starred in a popular biopic about his hero, the racehorse Secretariat, and is helming a gritty, True Detective-esque prestige series called Philbert.

AMC is hoping that "Hell on Wheels," with its harsh, unromanticized Western setting and sociopolitical undertones, will draw the same kind of critical response as its other high-prestige series, "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad".

Think of a prestige TV series … any prestige TV series.

6. Hitman (PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One) While prestige television series are increasingly distributed in the manner of video games, all at once, Hitman is a video game released in episodic dollops, in the manner of a traditional TV season.

That's a nearly unheard-of quality in sex on cable television, which consists largely of the same cynical motifs recycled again and again: perfect lingerie, interchangeable young female bodies (while male body types vary wildly, in age and shape), the sort of "porn with purchase" that studs prestige cable series from "Boardwalk Empire" to "House of Lies".

On the surface, "Vinyl" had all the hallmarks of becoming HBO's next prestige drama series.