As is so often the case, television has done a bit better, offering watchable prime-time soap operas with a canny, covert cross-generational appeal.

The Curtain-Up review of the Off-Broadway production in 2003 noted that "the winning score has both variety and a contemporary feel, perhaps permitting it to find a cross-generational appeal."

By including sports stars on the boxes, the cereals achieve cross-generational appeal, and attract both sports and non-sports collectors.

The series was intended to have an "epic scale" that would have a wide "cross-generational" appeal; films such as Raiders of the Lost Arc were cited as inspiration.

But it is the demonstrated cross-generational appeal of the unisex Baby that inspired executives at the record company.

These days the titles that rule the box office are those with cross-generational appeal, the ones adults do not simply endure for the sake of the kids, but also enjoy themselves.

The cross-generational appeal of boho influenced, among other things, the ranges that brought about a revival in the fortunes of Marks and Spencer in 2005-06.

In a Variety review, Joe Leydon says the movie is "overlong but [the] involving drama has obvious cross-generational appeal."

While newspaper "funnies" retained their distinctively cross-generational appeal, comic books found their primary audience among children and teenagers.

The original movie, written and directed by David Swift, had a cross-generational appeal that Walt Disney Studios was famous for in the 1950's and 1960's.