Sentence examples for telly series from inspiring English sources

Can we expect a telly series?

The telly series was good, but this was so much better.

One of Clive James's best jokes was announcing that Poldark, the Seventies telly series based on Winston Graham's novels, was an anagram of "old krap".

It is that now rare thing, a musical which sprang neither from a movie, a jukebox or a telly series, and which isn't built around a star.

But what the cabbie means is that he's heard that Arnott's first book, The Long Firm, is being made into a telly series.

Bad Girls - a women's prison musical based on the telly series - has the fruitiest song in the West End: a tango-bango bellow in which three inmates hump each other while howling that they're 'All banged up without the bang'.

"We get letters from viewers telling us they have little shrines to Tom by the telly," says series producer Mark Bell.

Andy Hamilton called the dialogue "the funniest on TV" and David Mitchell selected it as his "TV hell" in the series TV Heaven, Telly Hell.

Things didn't get better for D Ream, and now Cox does astrophysics on the telly, with a new series called Wonders of the Solar System (BBC2, Sunday).

But it's not as though the UK is alone in compacting top telly into short-run series – here is our pick of the six best US miniseries; a collection of superb shows that come in small packages.

Far more unearthly electro tones could be heard on the telly via science-fiction series like Doctor Who and The Tomorrow People or at the cinema, courtesy of dystopian movies like A Clockwork Orange, The Andromeda Strain and Logan's Run.