Meaning of megaseries | Babel Free

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A series that is much longer than is usually the case.

Examples

“At 5:00, Krishnamurti speaks on “The Mind in Meditation” from Bangalore, India (1/31/71), concluding our megaseries “Krishnamurti in foreign lands.””

“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.”

“Remember the rampaging political rhetoric that accompanied ABC’s presentation of the $40 million, 14½-hour megaseries Amerika?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“But different from all the rest is The Maids Tragedy, in which the dramatists created, some three centuries early, a plot worthy of a television megaseries and in its villainess, Evadne, the Joan Collins role.”

“Like many of the volumes in this megaseries, Blood follows a certain pattern.”

“Robert Goldberg reviews the 10-part megaseries “American Cinema,” airing on PBS in Feb 1995.”

“The CNN megaseries, which began five weeks ago and will not conclude till next April, might have been a sprawling bore or triumphalist rant.”

“I’m not discussing a maxiseries here; megaseries are far, far more complex and very unusual—you might write comics for 30 years and never participate in one. In fact, to my knowledge, there have been only a handful and they’ve starred just three heroes, Batman, Spider-Man, and Superman. They were possible because those good guys appear every month in several different magazines. So, although each megaseries has lasted only a year (or less) they’ve filled a lot more than the 264 story pages that normally comprise a year’s worth of any given title.”

“Kieman was the lead writer for the megaseries on air-traffic problems, “The Longest Day,” that won the explanatory reporting award.”

““In some ways, the series business is segmenting,” explains Craig Walker, Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of Scholastic Paperbacks. “Instead of there being a megaseries that everybody has to read, there is a tendency for kids to narrow down their interests. We are finding that a number of series will do well, but none to the extent that they did in the past.””

“Her latest handiwork is “Dinotopia,” an $85 million, six-hour “megaseries” about a lost world of dinosaurs, which started airing Sunday night.”

“On the heels of HBO's success with the groundbreaking megaseries Band of Brothers and From the Earth to the Moon, other networks are getting in on the act with at least three major events this season: Taken (Sci-Fi Channel) from Steven Spielberg, Masterpiece Theater's remake of The Forsyte Saga (PBS) and a new Peter Jennings/Todd Brewster panorama, In Search of America (ABC). Ranging from six to 10 episodes, these sprawling megaseries may generate significantly greater benefits for their book tie-ins than television generally affords.”

“The objective of another megaseries, managed by Gan Yang, Wenhua: Zhongguo yu shijie (Culture: China and the world), was to translate 470 books by foreign authors, including Lacan, Foucault, Sartre, and Camus.”

“Comics worth reading: Ex Machina, Grant Morrison’s Seven Soldiers megaseries, All-Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder, 100 Bullets, Gotham Central, Majestic, The Unnamed Awesome Comic That Somebody Better Hire Me To Write Or Else.”

“The production of the epic megaseries Three Kingdoms, consisting of eighty-four one-hour episodes, lasted four years.”

“We explore the success of diet-related bestsellers such as Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution and Arthur Agatston’s South Beach Diet; business guides including The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, and Good to Great by Jim Collins; and priority-straightening jump-starters such as Richard Carlson’s Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff, Sarah Ban Breathnach’s Simple Abundance, Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie, and the Chicken Soup for the Soul megaseries.”

“Intriguingly, this was also where the differences between the two RPG megaseries really started to become obvious. FFVII was a technological revolution, using the most advanced programming and impressive CG visuals to offer gamers a mind-boggling experience. DQVII, on the other hand, looked kind of like an amateur’s first PlayStation game, and it played almost exactly like its NES predecessors.”

“In 2000, the CBC produced, in English and in French, the very successful epic megaseries, Canada: A People’s History.”

“It had been sixteen years since the BBC’s Grace Wyndham Goldie wrote her internal memo about luring him back to make sociological/scientific TV programmes. Now a second note had circulated, from the science department, proposing that he should present the Corporation’s next educative megaseries.”

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