Mr. Osborne assures viewers at home that they can have all the excitement and none of the gridlock.

At the end presenter David Coleman assured viewers that they had witnessed a piece of television history.

All the networks had battle images, and all the correspondents were careful to assure viewers that they would not disclose classified information.

Nearly every night, Mr. Leno assures viewers that "we have some terrific guests coming up in the next few weeks."

He assured viewers that he would not allow Presley 'to do anything that will offend anyone.'

Some of his most recent work has been in television advertisements for Nasalcrom, carefully enunciating the product's name and assuring viewers "that's right, it's a spray".

But the "Nature" voice-over assures viewers, incongruously, that the horn will grow back.

Fox assured viewers that the entire production was legal.

Perfume, as the television ads keep assuring viewers, is almost exclusively associated with seduction fantasies.