How to Use teleplay in a Sentence

teleplay

noun

• The play is based on the teleplay by Val DeCrowl and Fenady.
  — Arkansas Online, 2 Dec. 2019
• Burd penned the teleplay and will exec produce the music for the show as well.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2018
• Sidibe and Banks penned the script, with Banks writing the teleplay and directing the pilot.
  — Breanna Bell, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023
• Goldman wrote the teleplay and will serve as showrunner.
  — Joe Otterson, chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2018
• Fuchs is writing the teleplay for the first episode of the series, based on a story by him and the Muschiettis.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 5 Apr. 2023
• Fuchs is writing the teleplay for the first episode of the series, based on a story by him and the Muschiettis.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
• Seamus Fahey wrote the teleplay and co-wrote the story with Anna Fricke.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 12 May 2022
• Curtis’ screenplay for the film is based on his 1991 teleplay Bernard and the Genie, and is directed by Sam Boyd.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2023
• At the time Reginald Rose wrote the original teleplay in the 1950s, women weren’t allowed to serve on juries in the United States.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2022
• Tony Phelan and Joan Rater also co-wrote the story for the pilot in addition to writing the teleplay.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 24 Feb. 2022
• Sidibe and Banks are credited for the story with Banks writing the teleplay and directing the pilot.
  — Breanna Bell, Variety, 14 Jan. 2023
• Tony Phelan and Joan Rater also co-wrote the story in addition to writing the teleplay.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 4 Feb. 2022
• A framing device — set in 1975 — at the start and end of the film was added by Jessica Sharzer, who wrote the teleplay, to explain why the characters are now singing.
  — Katherine Rosman, New York Times, 22 May 2017
• Their idea was to feed a neural network lots of sci-fi screenplays and teleplays to give it a feel for dialogue, setting and plot, then switch on the bot and see what came out.
  — Stephen L. Carter, The Denver Post, 3 May 2017
• Burd, 30, wrote the teleplay and will star in the pilot, as well as serve as executive producer for music.
  — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 1 June 2018
• Astrof wrote the pilot teleplay from a story by himself and Horgan.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 16 Nov. 2021
• There are traces of that turmoil in the credits; the pilot’s teleplay is attributed to no fewer than five screenwriters.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 28 Apr. 2023
• Levinson ended up directing the entire season and was credited with the teleplays for all five episodes, as well.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Aug. 2023
• Threats didn’t faze Grau, who turned out six novels, four collections of short stories and a teleplay in a career spanning a half-century.
  — John Pope, NOLA.com, 3 Aug. 2020
• Taylor (Crank) co-wrote the pilot teleplay with Morrison and directed the pilot.
  — Kate Stanhope, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 July 2017
• Based on a teleplay of the same name, 12 Angry became a gold standard with its glimpse inside jury deliberations.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2021
• While the musical largely follows the same beats as the movie (and the 1958 teleplay it was based on), Lucas challenged himself to prune the plot to its bare essentials and craft a show so propulsive that the audience can’t dwell on its despondence.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
• Where the series truly wins you over is with a teleplay crafted by Charlie Covell that allows each character to discover his or her truth in often the most subtle and nuanced ways.
  — latimes.com, 25 May 2018
• In addition to mimicking the format of a teleplay, Yu made another unconventional stylistic choice by writing in the second person.
  — Patrick J. Kiger, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2021
• Tiffany reports that Serling drew inspiration in creating his teleplays from the Theatre of the Absurd, a stage movement popular in the late 1950s that tackled existential questions about the meaning of human existence.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 19 July 2017
• Tiffany reports that Serling drew inspiration in creating his teleplays from the Theatre of the Absurd, a stage movement popular in the late 1950s that tackled existential questions about the meaning of human existence.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 19 July 2017
• But another interpretation positions the show as simply an engrossing teleplay about economics and masculinity and the slow creep of time strangling opportunity—both personal and national.
  — Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 21 June 2017

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024