HDMI from Macbook pro to HDTV

I got a HDMI cable to use with my macbook pro and TV. I plugged the HDMI cables in and the only thing that will show is the background of the computer. It will not show anything else that is on my computer. Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance!

Your MacBook is acting like dual-screen and what you see on your laptop is the left screen and what you see on your TV is the right screen. One way you can tell is to move your mouse all the way to the right and it should appear from the left of your TV screen. You can either move what you want to view from the left screen to the right screen or try toggling the F3 key.

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