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Documentary movie or series? (Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive)

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If I'm right, this documentary Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive should be moved from TV movies category to series/miniseries, because it consists of 2 episodes. Their premiere dates on BBC Two were:

Episode 1: 19/09/2006 https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/752cb79523cb459f9a4e57b0efdd5e2c

Episode 2: 26/09/2006 https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/22e66d9a1e834554a0749f32e3a8f21c

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3 years ago

If I'm right, I'm asking admins to fix it and to move this title from movie section to series.

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@Livonye​ Hi!

Please refer to our help guides for this, if the total running time is less than 240 min we do list it as a TV movie. If this is not the case then it should be changed to a TV Mini Series.

Cheers!

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@Bethanny​ are you sure about this rule of 240 minutes? I think it's not correct and not actual. There're a lot of cases on imdb when 2-part documentary total running time is less than 240min, but they're in series category as they should be. Examples:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12688688/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14396056/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2194326/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2094220/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1954630/
...and so on.

Maybe it's ok to list 2-part documentary as a movie, if both parts have the same premiere date, if they were released one after another. But in my case episodes were released a week apart.

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@Livonye​ Please refer to our guidelines for this, you can see in the chart the description and characteristics on how they should be listed.

Thanks!

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@Bethanny​ what about my examples? It means, all of them shoud be moved from series to tv movie category according these guidelines.

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3 years ago

I always though that ”2 episodes” = mini-series. TV movie kinda doesn’t have ”episodes”, not even two.