the small screen

noun

: television
a movie made for the small screen

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This past October, Rodrigo brought her concerts to the small screen with a Netflix special filmed from her show at Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California. Michelle Lee, People.com, 3 Feb. 2025 In 1990, Lynch turned his attention to the small screen, collaborating with onetime Hill Street Blues writer Mark Frost to create Twin Peaks, a surreal mystery-horror series centered on a young FBI agent investigating the murder of a beautiful woman in a remote logging town. News Desk, Artforum, 16 Jan. 2025 Popular on Variety Schwimmer has returned to the small screen sporadically over the years. Max Gao, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025 Lynch took the usual detective procedural and turned it into a water-cooler series – led by MacLachlan's enjoyably earnest FBI agent Dale Cooper – full of metaphors and visual nightmares that pioneered serial storytelling on the small screen. Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for the small screen 

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“The small screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20small%20screen. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.

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