Still, the life span of a television phenomenon can be short, and "Friends" has to be careful.

But ABC has other motives for holding on to what became the television phenomenon of the year.

There are plenty of women my age who are more of a television phenomenon than I am.

As professional football became a national television phenomenon, college football did as well.

Yet this year's string of blockbuster crimes and criminal proceedings isn't just a television phenomenon.

During the decade of the 90s, she was highly promoted by television, achieving in this way to establish herself as an ultimate television phenomenon.

In the mid-1950s the company sponsored the quiz show The $64,000 Question, which became a television phenomenon and boosted sales considerably.

Dallas was so much more than a television phenomenon to me.

Still, Fox will be hard-pressed to maintain the show's level of success indefinitely, because all television phenomena fade at some point.

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