Hold mouse at the edge of the screen to jump to other monitor on Mac OS X Lion
Solution 1:
Not by default in OS X there isn't a way to do that, and I don't know of any third-party utilities that do that either.
You could put the TV on an upper corner of the monitor (see below for ASCII art). Then you'd only be using a corner to transit the screens, not the whole top of the monitor.
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