• n  a contest whose outcome is uncertain up to the very end
• n  an episode that ends in suspense

News & Articles

• Theatre Review: Better Days (Episode 6)
  SAK Comedy Lab closes out the first “season” of John Valines and Tod Kimbro's experimental live-action scripted sitcom with this month's finale of Better Days. (See here for reviews of episodes one, two, three, four, and five.) “Finding Home, Part 2,” concludes the cliffhanger set up in the previous installment, which sending the characters in surprising new directions for a potential second ...
  June 13, 2013 - Orlando Weekly
• Alexander Skarsgard, Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer talk 'True Blood' Season 6
  Following "True Blood's" big, naked Season 5 cliffhanger ending in the form of Billith, there are a whole slew of questions left to be answered in the upcoming Season 6. It remains to be seen who -- or what -- Bill has become after drinking Lilith's blood and how that will affect those closest to him. According to Stephen Moyer, fans will find out what Bill has turned into at the same time that ...
  June 12, 2013 - Zap2It
• 'Castle' Season 6 preview: Will Beckett say yes or no? Even Nathan Fillion has no answer
  CastleSeason 5 ended on a major cliffhanger: Rick Castle asked Kate Beckett to marry him, just as she was about to take a new job in a new city.Naturally, the audience didn't get an answer. TV shows never answer proposals in the season finales. Those are saved for the next season's premiere or possibly Fall sweeps. But does anybody know what Beckett (Stana Katic) is going to answer?The answer ...
  June 12, 2013 - Zap2It

Quotes

• Norman Rosenthal in FOXNews
  It was a little bit of a cliffhanger from our point of view,lead curator Norman Rosenthal said Tuesday, standing in front of the show's most famous masterpiece _ Henri Matisse's huge "Dance II," an exuberant painting of naked five figures...
• Carlton Cuse in San Jose Mercury News
  It will feel a little like reading half a Harry Potter novel, then having to put it down,executive producer Carlton Cuse said recently on tvguide.com. "There is a mini-cliffhanger at the end of episode eight, but it's like the end of an...
• Todd McFarlane in E! Online
  Without question, 24 is one of TV's biggest cliffhanger programs,McFarlane CEO Todd McFarlane said. "Kiefer Sutherland does an amazing job as Jack Bauer, the biggest reason people tune in each season. I know a lot of our fans will be...