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- adjective Of a
motion picture , produced for or originally distributed by atelevision network as opposed to being shown incinemas .
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Examples
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In the 1990s, she began starring in a series of films that exploited her bad-girl image, including Poison Ivy (1992), Guncrazy (1992), and The Amy Fisher Story (1993), a made-for-TV movie based on the Joey Buttafuoco scandal.
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In addition to appearing in a number of made-for-TV movies throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Majors starred in 1992âēs short-lived television series Raven.
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This spooky old house saga, directed by comic-book artist Troy Nixey, updates a 1973 made-for-TV creeper broadcast on ABC.
Down Darkened Roads Steve Dollar 2011
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In 1990, she reprised her role in the two-hour Green Acres made-for-TV movie.
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You were a culinary school grad with a made-for-TV personality — did you think The Apprentice would be your big break?
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As the personalities butt heads with made-for-TV goodness, Trump says — not surprisingly — that the show will likely stick with the stars-behaving-badly format for the foreseeable future.
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The made-for-TV confrontations resurrected the bad old days when the IRA campaign caused great grief in the Irish Republic and he seemed to to be slumping in the polls.
Niall O'Dowd: The Irish Presidential Race Becomes a Gripping Soap Opera Niall O'Dowd 2011
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Before there was made-for-TV golf, live TV golf on weekdays, all-day TV golf on weekends and a TV channel just for golf â all making ad space on golfers 'visors more valuable â there was the case of love at first sight that got things going.
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He picked up a third Emmy nomination for his 1985 role in the made-for-TV movie An Early Frost, and won an Emmy for his supporting work in the 2002 HBO television film Hysterical Blindness.
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Starting with the trophy show this September, the races for best miniseries and best made-for-TV movie will be combined.
The TV Column: Sheen's conduct spurs season shutdown of 'Two and a Half Men' 2011
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