miniseries
Americannoun
plural
miniseries-
a short series of events or presentations.
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Television. a program or film broadcast in parts, as the dramatization of a literary work.
The novel was made into a four-part miniseries.
noun
Etymology
Origin of miniseries
Example Sentences
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So I will not ring a bell every time the miniseries, which admittedly bills itself as “inspired by a true story,” diverts from the record, even though in my head it may be clanging.
From Los Angeles Times
He will be in the eight-episode “Carrie” miniseries — yes, that Carrie — developed by filmmaker Mike Flanagan for Amazon MGM Studios.
From Los Angeles Times
Post-Oscars, she’ll add a Broadway production of Noël Coward’s “Fallen Angels,” coming just after the film “Tow,” in which she plays a homeless woman who fights the system after her car is towed, premieres in March; “The Good Daughter,” a Peacock miniseries in which Bryne co-stars with Meghann Fahy and Brendan Gleeson, is in postproduction.
From Los Angeles Times
His equally charismatic, Golden Globe-winning role, alongside Tommy Lee Jones, as a former Texas ranger in the massively popular 1989 miniseries “Lonesome Dove,” proved that he could be an old-school cowboy hero.
When asked about his acting technique, Duvall would describe it as simply as his favorite character — Augustus McCrae, the wry trail boss on the TV miniseries “Lonesome Dove” — might have described riding a horse.
From Los Angeles Times
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