telly
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It’s the kind of telly I seek — light and soft and heartwarming and optimistic.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
"I've been on telly for 25 years, I must have been awful!"
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025
And the “Antiques Roadshow” version of the lottery—the old picture over the family telly that might be worth $200 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
"Suddenly you cry on the telly in front of 10 million people, you feel a lot more open."
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025
Her father, after what had happened in front of the telly that evening, was first on her list.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
As a child growing up near the BBC's Alexandra Palace studios he became fascinated at an early age about what went on inside and by his teens he was mending old tellies at school.
From BBC ● May 18, 2015
There are 14 stars pairing up with professionals to dance on our tellies for the Strictly Come Dancing crown.
From Children's BBC ● Sep. 8, 2010
All over Britain, women are kneeling in front of their tellies, heads low, shoulders shaking, tears and mucus dripping from their reddened faces like rain from a suburban gutter.
From The Guardian ● May 1, 2010
Through its American cable channel, BBC America, founded two years ago and now in about 12 million homes, the Beeb is recolonizing American tellies with a slate heavy on newer dramas and "Britcoms."
From Time Magazine Archive
