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    TV Movies Listed as Seasons

    Why are some TV movies listed as seasons/series? I've seen two so far.

    The Unauthorized Full House Story - listed as Season 1
    The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story - listed as Season 1, Episode 1

    I know Whitney was listed like this as well, but it's been removed.

    All are Lifetime movies.

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    Childhood's End & Roots are listed as seasons, as well.

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      I wonder why Vudu list them as series? I checked and even iTunes has them listed as episodes... Strange.

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        Originally posted by Me-Hostage View Post
        Why are some TV movies listed as seasons/series? I've seen two so far.

        The Unauthorized Full House Story - listed as Season 1
        The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story - listed as Season 1, Episode 1

        I know Whitney was listed like this as well, but it's been removed.

        All are Lifetime movies.
        I am pretty sure it's that way because it's got 2 episodes for each......
        each one has a 00 episode that is a sneak peek, and then the actual show which is 01

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          Re: TV Movies Listed as Seasons

          Originally posted by stryperrocks67 View Post
          I am pretty sure it's that way because it's got 2 episodes for each......
          each one has a 00 episode that is a sneak peek, and then the actual show which is 01
          True, but why not have that as a extra? Just odd how Lifetime does that. Does any other studio list movies like that?

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            Re: TV Movies Listed as Seasons

            Originally posted by Me-Hostage View Post
            True, but why not have that as a extra? Just odd how Lifetime does that. Does any other studio list movies like that?
            I have seen it elsewhere, too...at least I think

            A wild guess ... and this is JUST a guess.....is that they sent the sneak peak over before the actual show, and to make sure they would be able to tie them together when the show arrived, Vudu made them into seasons.

            I assume they could not make them into an extra for a movie without a movie first..

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              Re: TV Movies Listed as Seasons

              Originally posted by Me-Hostage View Post
              I wonder why Vudu list them as series? I checked and even iTunes has them listed as episodes... Strange.
              All TV episodes must be in a season, and all seasons must be in a series. VUDU may do that for an architectural reason or it could be a convention their content team uses or it could be mandated by the studios.

              Originally posted by stryperrocks67 View Post
              I have seen it elsewhere, too...at least I think

              A wild guess ... and this is JUST a guess.....is that they sent the sneak peak over before the actual show, and to make sure they would be able to tie them together when the show arrived, Vudu made them into seasons.

              I assume they could not make them into an extra for a movie without a movie first..
              If the supertype for these items were movies instead of TV, it could probably be a free clip. But I don't think they currently do free clips (or extras) for individual episodes yet.

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                Re: TV Movies Listed as Seasons

                Originally posted by Zu Nim View Post
                All TV episodes must be in a season, and all seasons must be in a series. VUDU may do that for an architectural reason or it could be a convention their content team uses or it could be mandated by the studios.
                But it's not a series... it's a movie... lol.

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                  Re: TV Movies Listed as Seasons

                  Originally posted by Me-Hostage View Post
                  But it's not a series... it's a movie... lol.
                  It's a TV movie but it's not a feature film. iTunes doesn't keep it in the movie section, it's in their TV section. VUDU doesn't have a special way to display TV movies; iTunes is a bit more flexible because their TV episodes don't require parent seasons and series. I agree the way TV movies are displayed in the TV section could be improved but they'd need to change their TV section to do that. Their solution is to not surface the series or season unless you own more than one of the subcomponents, but it means it shows as "S1E1". Inartful but there are so many other improvements to make before changing that.

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                    Re: TV Movies Listed as Seasons

                    Originally posted by Zu Nim View Post
                    It's a TV movie but it's not a feature film. iTunes doesn't keep it in the movie section, it's in their TV section. VUDU doesn't have a special way to display TV movies; iTunes is a bit more flexible because their TV episodes don't require parent seasons and series. I agree the way TV movies are displayed in the TV section could be improved but they'd need to change their TV section to do that. Their solution is to not surface the series or season unless you own more than one of the subcomponents, but it means it shows as "S1E1". Inartful but there are so many other improvements to make before changing that.
                    Understandable.

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                      Re: TV Movies Listed as Seasons

                      I went back and looked and I have a couple that are like this...and they are not Lifetime movies

                      Zu Nim is right, they are all TV specials or Made for TV movies (Lifetime falls into that category too)


                      Building-Star-Trek-Episode-1
                      American-Experience-Walt-Disney-Season-1
                      Marvels-Captain-America-75-Heroic-Years-Season-1

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                        During my travels, I discovered two lonely examples of TV movies that VUDU made an effort to be at least superficially more movie-like. Back in July, these changed from season/episode nomenclature to TV movie.

                        http://www.vudu.com/movies/#!content...e-Way-TV-Movie
                        http://www.vudu.com/movies/#!content...ation-TV-Movie

                        By only allowing you to purchase the season instead of the episode, most customers would only see it as TV Movie. In the case of the Lifetime movies, they allow you to purchase the single episode and not the season which would negate the usefulness for prior purchases but would be good moving forward.

                        I hope VUDU revisits this and retrofits TV movies to be more like these examples.

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                          Re: TV Movies Listed as Seasons

                          Lots of TV movies are correctly categorized as movies, including many Lifetime movies, including all 4 movies in the recent Flowers in the Attic series.

                          As mentioned, the problem is when there is any extra content like the "Sneak Peek" that forces it into the TV season category.

                          This TV movie bothers me every time I see it - it shows up correctly in My Movies, but it says Season 1 on the poster

                          http://www.vudu.com/movies/#!content/467629/Rewind

                          There is no season, it is a TV movie...

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