scene-setter

Watch with Rebecca Nicholson as the season finale of True Blood brings twists and turns aplenty – and a tantalising scene-setter for season two

One last thing... Sam Trammell 2011

Sadly I'm none the wiser, as the reason this documentary got an outing in the schedules at all was as a scene-setter for the forthcoming US sex-and- flying import, Pan Am, which starts on BBC2 later this week.

TV review: Garrow's Law; Come Fly With Me - the Story of Pan Am 2011

A better scene-setter, portraying cause and not effect, is just a few feet away, in "Wall Street, Half Past Two O'Clock, October 13, 1857" (1858) by James Henry Cafferty and Charles G. Rosenberg.

American Portraits of Hard Times Judith H. Dobrzynski 2010

One month later, an embassy "scene-setter" for visiting National Security Adviser James L. Jones reported that "nuclear cooperation on security issues has decreased after statements made in the press about purported U.S. plans to seize nuclear facilities."

In WikiLeaks cables from Pakistan, U.S. officials struggle for leverage Karin Brulliard 2010

One month later, an embassy "scene-setter" for visiting National Security Adviser James L. Jones reported that "nuclear cooperation on security issues has decreased after statements made in the press about purported U.S. plans to seize nuclear facilities."

In WikiLeaks cables from Pakistan, U.S. officials struggle for leverage Karin Brulliard 2010

The press release noted reporters would be free to cover "opening comments by Afghan and U.S. leadership during the scene-setter discussion for the day's events."

A PR surge on the Afghan front 2010

Here, in as few words as I can manage, is a scene-setter:• There will be no global, legally binding deal from Cancún – that's been clear since as early as February.

Cancún climate summit - opening day live coverage Damian Carrington 2010

"If this is just the prelude and the sort of moral scene-setter, if you will, to something real, then it's valuable."

HuffPost TV: Howard Fineman On Earmarks As 'Appetizers' HuffPost TV 2010

All of which is shifting away from a UN top-down deal, towards the bottom-up approach I outlined in the scene-setter below.

Cancún climate summit - opening day live coverage Damian Carrington 2010

In Grimwood, as in Dick although Grimwood is a much finer stylist and scene-setter than Dick what appears simple paranoia often leads to deeper truths about the nature of things.

Archive 2010-01-01 Adam Roberts 2010