The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Classification

I'm not sure why both of my attempts to add the "short" genre have been rejected. This very clearly meets all of IMDb's criteria to be listed as a short film. Previous edit attempts are 230228-014237-665000 and 230225-163755-225000.

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According to the guidelines it shouldn't have Short genre: https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/genres/GZDRMS6R742JRGAG#short

...any TV series or TV movie with a running time of less than 22 minutes, i.e. 21 minutes or less. (A "half-hour" television program should not be listed as a Short.)

The question here would be why its title type was recently changed from TV Movie to Film. (I can see it was listed as TV Movie last month, that's probably why Short genre was deleted)

Since apparently it was first aired on BBC in UK and then on Apple TV internationally a day later, TV Movie type looks correct to me.

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As mentioned here, I previously submitted an edit to change it to TV movie with the same argument, but it has changed back and forth a few times now. The fact that it is Oscar nominated may mean that it had a qualifying theatrical release, though I couldn't confirm that. Perhaps IMDb could shed some light.

The popularity ranking mentioned in the other thread may also be stuck again, though it may be too soon to say.

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@mbmb Yes it needs to be one or the other! Either change it back to a TV movie or list it as a short. Hopefully IMDb will do something soon to address this issue, which @Peter_pbn appears to have already tried flagging with staff

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@Peter_pbn All I can find indicates BBC premiere too. The only theatrical release listed on the title page is dated February 2023 which is after than the BBC release.

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@Peter_pbn I found a limited theatrical release in Los Angeles from 23 September to 29 September: https://www.laemmle.com/film/boy-mole-fox-and-horse

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Ah. Good enough for me.

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Thanks for everyone's help here. It looks like this has all been sorted now.

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