I cannot drag window to external monitor

Please help, I cannot drag any programs etc to my external monitor. The monitor is a TV, and connected via HDMI to MDP/thunderbolt on my Macbook Pro Retina 13inch. I can drag the mouse, but not any programs to the TV display. Please help

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