Media Phrases

Phrases

• 'Allo 'Allo! (BBC comedy television series)
• A mighty maze of mystic magic rays (lyric of song used at the opening of television)
• A newspaper, not a snoozepaper (Mail on Sunday advertising slogan)
• Absolutely Fabulous (BBC comedy television series)
• All human life is there (News Of The World advertising slogan)
• All the news that's fit to print (New York Times advertising slogan)
• Are You Being Served? (BBC comedy television series)
• Bad news
• Bad news travels fast
• Bearer of bad news
• Birds of a Feather (BBC comedy television series)
• Break the news
• Breaking news
• Bringing it home to me (Prime Television advertising slogan)
• Citizen Smith (BBC comedy television series)
• Dad's Army (BBC comedy television series)
• Desperate Housewives (2004 comedy drama television series)
• Do you want the good news or the bad news?
• Doctor, doctor, give me the news, I've got a bad case of loving you (Robert Palmer song lyric)
• Drop the Dead Donkey (BBC comedy television series)
• Duncan the Wonder Horse (Nickname of TV news anchor Tom Brokaw)
• Enjoy the Show (E! Entertainment Television advertising slogan)
• Fair and Balanced (FOX News advertising slogan)
• Father Ted (BBC comedy television series)
• Faulty Towers (BBC comedy television series)
• Film at eleven
• Glued to the television
• Hancock's Half Hour (BBC comedy radio and television series)
• Happy medium
• Hate watch (viewing a television programme in order to mock it)
• Have I got news for you
• Home For The Holidays (film starring Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr.)
• In the news
• Is your film as good as Gold? (Kodak advertising slogan)
• It Ain't Half Hot Mum (BBC comedy television series)
• It is. Are you? (Independent Newspaper advertising slogan)
• Klunk! Klick, every trip (UK Public Information Film advertising slogan)
• Liberal media
• Media circus
• Media frenzy
• Men Behaving Badly (BBC comedy television series)
• Mission Impossible (Tom Cruise movie and television series title)
• Mixed media
• Multimedia you can use (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• News for nerds, stuff that matters (Slashdot advertising slogan)
• News from the front
• News management
• No F.T. no comment (Financial Times Newspaper advertising slogan)

• No news is good news
• On the Buses (BBC comedy television series)
• One Foot In The Grave (BBC comedy television series)
• Open All Hours (Ronnie Barker television comedy series)
• Participatory media
• Phoenix Nights (BBC comedy television series)
• Press pass (a priority ticket giving access to events to the media)
• Primal Fear (film starring Richard Gere)
• Primal Rage (film and video game)
• Reality television
• Red Dwarf (BBC comedy television series)
• Revenge Of The Nerds (1984 film)
• Social media
• Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (BBC comedy television series)
• Steptoe and Son (BBC comedy television series)
• Suicide is painless (title of the theme song to MASH tv series and film)
• That's the news and I'm outta here (A catchphrase from Dennis Miller In Saturday Night Live)
• The Army Game (BBC comedy television series)
• The Brittas Empire (BBC comedy television series)
• The Charlie Chaplin of Television (Nickname of comedian Alan Young)
• The Dream Factory (film or television studio where idealised concepts are manufactured - especially Hollywood)
• The First Lady of Television (Nickname of Faye Emerson)
• The Invisible Man (HG Wells story and later a film)
• The King of Late Night Television (Nickname of Jack Paar)
• The League of Gentlemen (BBC comedy television series)
• The Likely Lads (BBC comedy television series)
• The Liver Birds (BBC comedy television series)
• The Marcel Marceau of Television (Nickname of Red Skelton)
• The New Statesman (BBC comedy television series)
• The Only Way Is Essex (British reality television series)
• The Rag Trade (BBC comedy television series)
• The Royle Family (BBC comedy television series)
• The Thunderer (Nickname of The Times Newspaper)
• The Vicar of Dibley (BBC comedy television series)
• The Young Ones (BBC comedy television series)
• The medium is the message (A catchphrase from Marshall McLuhan)
• The most trusted name in news (CNN advertising slogan)
• Think once, think twice, think bike (UK Public Information Film advertising slogan)
• Till Death Us Do Part (BBC comedy television series)
• To the Manor Born (BBC comedy television series)
• Trial by television
• Up Pompeii (BBC comedy television series)
• War movie (a film with war as the subject matter)
• We report, you decide (FOX News advertising slogan)
• We're the one (Sky Television advertising slogan)
• What a scoop
• Yes Minister (BBC comedy television series)
• Yesterday's news