Sentence examples for television tricks from inspiring English sources

Halfway into the seventieth annual Primetime Emmy Awards, Glenn Weiss pulled one of the oldest television tricks in the book: a surprise proposal, straight out of a sitcom season finale.

If he can deliver a terrific, original live act, he'll show that he's an artist who can still write his own jokes, and not merely an ensemble actor who owes his stardom to television tricks or, worse, to Larry David, who wrote many of the "Seinfeld" episodes.

This weekend, television trick-or-treaters can fill their DVRs with a variety of treats: some zombie hard candy, a sugarcoated witchcraft confection and a gourmet ghost bar.

Despite his extensive work in television, Francis tricks out "Poker Night" with freeze-frame, slow motion and split screen like an overeager recent film-school grad.

Reporters and television crews trick the Chamberlains into ill-advised interviews.

Although he dismisses the cheeky propaganda raids on national television as "dirty tricks by the secret services", Mr Bossi is back to the kind of military metaphor that makes some Italians sweat.

At one point, Rankin drops an apparently heavy hint that his man might sign up with the Serious Crime Review Unit, "three retired detectives whose job was to look at unsolveds", although this feels very close to the territory of the television series New Tricks.

In the guise of a reality television program, Ajay tricks an aspiring but unsuccessful film actor Padmasri by making him believe that the television show is being sponsored by actor Akkineni Nagarjuna's television channel, and that Nagarjuna wants to offer Padmasri very high remuneration for his realistic performance in the show.

Is it just a zeitgeisty buzz-phrase concocted by television executives to trick viewers into some kind of sexy Schrödinger box-watching scenario, or does it genuinely reflect a crisis for modern sexuality?

This quirk is what the organizers say has compelled them to become even wilier about the electronic tricks of television, the satellite feeds, the narratives on video, in selling their story.

He also enlisted Garth Ancier, a former president of entertainment at WB, to help teach Mr. Turner's old crew some basic tricks of television marketing.