made-for-TV
Adjective
Meaning
made-for-TV (not comparable)
(of a motion picture) produced for or originally distributed by a television network as opposed to being shown in cinemas.
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Examples
American stage and screen actress Helen Hayes portrayed Miss Marple in two American made-for-TV movies, both for CBS : A Caribbean Mystery (1983) and Murder with Mirrors (1985).
Columnist Jonah Goldberg is right about President Trump’s made-for-TV coronavirus briefings doing more harm than good.
I know I said we don’t come to Hallmark movies for anything out of the ordinary, but when a made-for-TV Christmas movie manages to make you cackle with unexpected glee, that’s when you know it’s great.
Democrats condemn Trump for a made-for-TV attempt to distract both from Black Lives Matter protests and his mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, now killing more than 1,000 Americans a day.
My role was that of Karl Ritter, patron of the composer Wagner, in a made-for-TV mini-series.
Films There were two made-for-TV reunion movies that aired on CBS, The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!