Why are you "in" a movie, but you're "on" TV?
by 
Mister Rogers
ANSWERS: 8
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I think, because actors perform IN a movie, sitcom or play, but it is played ON some type of forum - wether that be the stage, the big screen, or the television.
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It probably goes back to some vagary in Anglo-Saxon verbs...darn those anglo-saxons...
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Because TV is the medium and not the work. You would be on the cinema screen, or in a TV show. :D
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Because the public can't get enough of me?
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Because movies play on a television. How else are you supppose to watch it?
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Same reason you're 'on' the big screen and 'in' a sitcom.
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If you are in a movie that is on TV then you are both in and on at the same time.
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its probably a movie on tv
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