light entertainment
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Throughout his long career, Jewison combined light entertainment with topical films that appealed to him on a deeply personal level.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 22, 2024
When Parkinson was recruited to present his eponymous show on BBC One, the corporation's head of light entertainment, Bill Cotton, envisaged a variety programme along the lines of America's Ed Sullivan Show.
From BBC • Aug. 17, 2023
The format smoothly flips between light entertainment interviews to serious society debate, with pop stars performing in the studio as well.
From BBC • Jul. 10, 2023
Lincoln was no supper-club singer, uninterested in light entertainment, and more concerned with shaking an audience into consciousness.
From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2023
Tsunayoshi lectured upon the "Doctrine of the Mean," and Yasuaki on the Confucian "Analects," and after these learned discourses a Sarugaku play, or some other form of light entertainment, was organized.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)
