Citations:shlockumentary

English citations of shlockumentary

Noun: "alternative spelling of schlockumentary"

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• 1991 — "Quick-and-Dirty 'Nostradamus II' Won't Fool Us, NBC", Miami Herald, 20 February 1991:

  The original Man Who Saw Tomorrow is probably closer to shlockumentary than documentary.

• 1994 — "Critic's Corner", The Washington Times, 5 July 1994:

  It's another shlockumentary from NBC, the network that brought you "Ancient Prophecies" and "Angels: The Mysterious Messengers."

• 1996 — Jay Carr, "More reason to knock on Wood", Boston Globe, 25 October 1996:

  Think of "The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr." as "Plan 10 from Outer Space." It's the year's most irresistible shlockumentary.

• 2000 — "Dreadful season all round for Fox", Toronto Star, 19 May 2000:

  Fox is devoting tonight to its shlockumentaries until midseason when it launches The Lone Gunmen at 8 followed by a project by Michael Crichton, the guy behind ER, Twister and Jurassic Park.

• 2003 — Kevin D. Thompson, "'America's Most Wanted' keeps hope alive", The Day, 15 March 2003:

  "Even though this show falls under the category of what some have called 'shlockumentary,' we've all got to say by putting those pictures up, the show has performed a public service."

• 2007 — Klaus Rohrich, "Strong arguments do not require coercion", Canada Free Press, 30 January 2007:

  […] as has former Vice President Al Gore, whose shlockumentary about manmade global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth" fails to include a few inconvenient facts, […]

• 2012 — Dan Murphy, "PETA’s worst idea yet", Pork Magazine, 9 February 2012:

  Nothing that followed the O.J. verdict—from the proliferation of cable news "shlockumentaries" to heightened racial tensions to the celebrity-stalking substitution of infotainment for actual journalism—was remotely uplifting, beneficial or enlightening.

• 2012 — Lou Lumenick, "Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope", New York Post, 14 April 2012:

  Morgan Spurlock does not appear on-screen in his latest shlockumentary.