megaseries
nounEtymology From mega- + series.
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A series that is much longer than is usually the case.
- At 5:00, Krishnamurti speaks on “The Mind in Meditation” from Bangalore, India (1/31/71), concluding our megaseries “Krishnamurti in foreign lands.”1980 January 16 – February, KPFK Folio, volume 22, number 1, North Hollywood, Calif.: KPFK, page 35, column 1:
- Unfortunately, this was not as blindingly clear to the Television Management in London as it was to us and several other major projects were produced from the metropolis before the Natural History Unit at Bristol was in a position to launch its first ‘megaseries’ after many years of lobbying.1982, Christopher Parsons, “Life on Earth”, in True to Nature: Christopher Parsons Looks Back on 25 Years of Wildlife Filming with the BBC Natural History Unit, Bar Hill, Cambs.: Patrick Stephens Ltd, →ISBN, page 308:
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- Remember the rampaging political rhetoric that accompanied ABC’s presentation of the $40 million, 14½-hour megaseries Amerika?1987 May 29 – June 4, Mark Jurkowitz, “Don’t quote me: Duking it out: cheap shots and puff pieces”, in The Boston Phoenix, volume XVI, number 22, Boston, Mass., →ISSN, page 25, column 2:
- And in Prelude to Foundation (Doubleday Foundation), Isaac Asimov, as we hinted decorously just a moment ago, bricked up yet another escape hatch from which any remaining life in his megaseries of long long ago might escape.1989, John Clute, “Science Fiction Novels of the Year”, in David S[tanley] Garnett, editor, The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Two, London: Futura Publications, →ISBN, page 306:
- Thus Doordarshan’s megaseries, the year-long (52 one-hour episodes) serializations of India’s "classic" epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, in the form of docudramas that entertain, encompass "intellectual activity" in Pocock’s sense.1993, Lloyd I[rving] Rudolph, “[The Media and Cultural Politics] A Conceptual Space for Cultural Politics”, in Harold A[lton] Gould, Sumit Ganguly, editors, India Votes: Alliance Politics and Minority Governments in the Ninth and Tenth General Elections, Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, →ISBN, page 162:
- Which identities become relevant for politics is not predetermined by some primordial ancientness. They are crafted in benign and malignant ways in print and electronic media, in textbooks and advertising, in India’s TV megaseries and America’s talk shows, in campaign strategies, in all the places and all the ways that self and other, us and them, are represented in an expanding public culture.1993, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, Lloyd I[rving] Rudolph, “Modern Hate”, in The New Republic, Washington, D.C., →ISSN; republished in “[Violence] Looking at Ourselves”, in Carol J. Verburg, Ourselves Among Others: Cross-Cultural Readings for Writers, 3rd edition, Boston, Mass.: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1994, →ISBN, pages 602–603: