potboiler
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Potboiler television shows never stint on enmity and passion, but they don’t always make room for a glint of ordinary affection.
From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2015
Purvis and Wade, who wrote the Bond flicks "Quantum of Solace" and "Casino Royale," have an adaptation of le Carre's "The Mission Song" with Potboiler Prods.
From Reuters • Aug. 18, 2010
Gail Egan of Potboiler Productions - the group behind the Constant Gardener and Vera Drake - agrees that the recession has had an effect.
From BBC • Mar. 5, 2010
Potboiler westerns, mysteries and a few novels were sold mainly in drugstores and on newsstands.
From Time Magazine Archive
That odious Milord Potboiler amuses himself by making poor Theodore hide in my dressing-room and stand there half the day.
From Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Balzac, Honoré de
