How to Use telefilm in a Sentence

telefilm

noun
  • Williams did return for a Mod Squad reunion telefilm in 1979.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 6 June 2021
  • Katie Holmes stars in this flick written by Guillermo del Toro, based on the '70s telefilm by the same name.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2022
  • Young also did several telefilms in Canada with director George Schaefer.
    — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 June 2023
  • During that period, Vincent also wrote and produced two telefilms—Panache, and The Imposter.
    — Marc Berman, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The telefilm earned Goldstone a directing Emmy, and a year later, Barkin would become a much bigger star, on a much bigger screen, with her breakout role in Diner.
    — Benjamin Svetkey, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2024
  • The 90-minute telefilm follows a mother who joins forces with an FBI investigator and a local detective to track down her abducted daughter.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 25 July 2024
  • Indeed, the imprint of the original production, memorialized in a telefilm recording of a 1980 tour stop in Los Angeles, is unavoidable.
    — Rob Weinert-Kendt, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Ketchum returned as Agent 13 in the 1989 telefilm Get Smart, Again and on an episode of a rebooted Get Smart in 1995.
    — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The media saturation continued with the band — always in full costume and makeup — leading a NBC telefilm called Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park.
    — Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
  • During production, the 1989 telefilm (co-starring Madigan’s longtime friend Holly Hunter) filmed under secret titles so as to avoid protesters — and worse.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Along the way, Burch also served as casting director on episodes of TV series including Constantine, Flight 29 Down and Ponderosa, along with some telefilms.
    — Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2025
  • His final credit was as a producing on the 2009 telefilm A Year with Freeway Rick Ross, about the notorious Los Angeles drug kingpin.
    — Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Carr also wrote on telefilms and authored the comic 1989 novel Topsy Turvy Dingo Dog, which revolved around a B-movie actress, Mary Jane Shady, who returns to her hometown of Uncertain, Texas, for her 20th high school reunion.
    — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Walker, Texas Ranger, created by Al Ruddy, Leslie Greif, Paul Haggis and Christopher Canaan at Cannon Television, debuted in April 1993 and ran for nine seasons and about 200 episodes, plus a 2005 telefilm.
    — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019

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