Meaning of untelevisable | Babel Free

Definitions

Not televisable; unsuitable for television.

Examples

“Now that TV has replaced movies as the mass entertainment medium, Hollywood has responded with untelevisable sex — not Doris Day, twin-bed sex, but moaning, thrashing, rolling-around-naked sex[…]”

“It soon became apparent, though, that the Shetland way of life was untelevisable, because the glibness and publicity that television brings instantly efface it.”

“We were very cognizant that a horrendously large part of this whole audience would be viewers on television, and so it would be foolish, I thought, to create a set that was untelevisable.”

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