I actually spent a lot of time on this when I built TV. Since TV was a discretely new model, I made no assumptions about anything that was happening in the movie section. To me, and everyone I asked, the word title just felt weird when describing a TV show. Is one clearly better than the other? I suppose not but the word "name" just felt like it mapped better to the nature of TV. That way shows, seasons and episodes all carry it.
From my model perspective here on TMDb, movie and TV shows don't share almost anything. My work on movies was done in 2009 and a lot has changed since then. TV was a complete re-write with everything from the model and up.
ahh your kind of right about that episodes taking the name title
though from my perspective it would be nice if the 'name' or 'title' of both where the same so i wouldn't have to sanitize it on my end, would also be good if the tv shows had the adult tag or rather if both had a rating (ie G/R/pg13) tag but that would be a lot of work todo retrospectively
Reply by Travis Bell
on January 16, 2014 at 10:45 AM
Hi jamie,
I actually spent a lot of time on this when I built TV. Since TV was a discretely new model, I made no assumptions about anything that was happening in the movie section. To me, and everyone I asked, the word title just felt weird when describing a TV show. Is one clearly better than the other? I suppose not but the word "name" just felt like it mapped better to the nature of TV. That way shows, seasons and episodes all carry it.
From my model perspective here on TMDb, movie and TV shows don't share almost anything. My work on movies was done in 2009 and a lot has changed since then. TV was a complete re-write with everything from the model and up.
Cheers.
Reply by jamie
on January 16, 2014 at 4:00 PM
ahh your kind of right about that episodes taking the name title
though from my perspective it would be nice if the 'name' or 'title' of both where the same so i wouldn't have to sanitize it on my end, would also be good if the tv shows had the adult tag or rather if both had a rating (ie G/R/pg13) tag but that would be a lot of work todo retrospectively
Reply by Travis Bell
on January 16, 2014 at 4:05 PM
There is plans to add ratings, the ticket for that is here.
With regards to the adult flag, if it's necessary I am more than happy to add it but I am not personally aware of any adult TV shows. Are there any?
Reply by jamie
on January 16, 2014 at 4:10 PM
i feel a bit ... too experanced now but if adult means pornographic then i can think of at least one https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=red+shoe+diries+&oq=red+shoe+diries
though if one is to include french/danish tv shows then there are many more
Reply by Travis Bell
on January 16, 2014 at 4:15 PM
Ah, true. I forgot about Red Shoe Diaries.
Ok, there is probably enough toy warrant the filter just like we do in movies. I've created a new ticket for that here.
Reply by jamie
on January 16, 2014 at 4:23 PM
hehe at least i am not the only one to stay up for that when i was a boy