Can I please make a suggestion that the Genre 'Horror' gets added to TV Shows? Horror Series especially over the last few years is just as popular nowadays in Series as it is in Movies. American Horror story's, Haunting of hill house, Blyth Manor, and all the Series which integrate into each other, I could list so many Horror TV shows/series.

But genuine Horror series fall into the Mystery genre instead of the Horror genre. Which makes it extremely difficult for users to find a Horror series, because some don't even come under the Mystery genre, I've found 6 Horror series that come under the Drama genre. So when I go on TmDb, and look for Horror series, it's very difficult to find them, or the latest ones like the new 'From' and 'Evil' series just released.

It would be amazing if we could just select the 'Horror' genre in TV-Shows and find the genuine horror series, to make it more easier and user friendly.

It's just a suggestion that I think would be a really good addition to TmDb.

Regards

I don't know the extent to which this is still in open conversation, but I've long wished for a "Concert" genre in the TMDb data, that would include concert films by both musical acts and stand-up comedians (and other "live stage performance caught on film" releases, as necessary). Right now the mentioned films fall into "Musical" and "Comedy", respectively, but something like, say, Stop Making Sense, is a difference in kind from, say, The Music Man, and that distinction would be useful to recognize in the data.

Thanks for the consideration!

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Game shows and competition shows are not the same.

Game Show: Jeopardy, Family Feud, Wheel of Fortune, Let's Make a Deal, Hollywood Squares, etc.
Competition: Survivor, The Amazing Race, American Idol, MasterChef, The Masked Singer, etc.

@travisbell said:

With regards to science fiction, I don't think it should be merged with fantasy. They are completely different in my mind. Calling Lord of the Rings a science fiction film is just plain wrong.

I agree wholeheartedly. I am reminded of part of an opening narration to the Twilight Zone episode "The Fugitive" voiced by TZ creator Rod Serling: Narrator : "It's been said that science fiction and fantasy are two different things: science fiction, the improbable made possible; fantasy, the impossible made probable."

I would keep them separate.

@King_Dave said:

I agree to them above.

• *maybe a genre called "love&sex" would fit for all that dating stuff too. The first series that come to mind are Das Geschäft mit der Liebe - Frauen aus dem Osten, Bauer sucht frau, Amore unter Palmen - Fremdenverkehr und mehr - I don't know if thats romance haha.

Um if we make a genre for TV shows please don't call it "love&sex". Like, why? Its a made up genre that Ive never heard of before. There's already a perfectly well known genre called "Romance" that exists. Just use that. "Love&sex" should just be separete keywords (like they already are) "love" and "sex".

it is actually insane that there isnt a Romance genre for tv shows though. its such a common tv show genre... (ive heard the explanation about why genres on this site are the way they are but still)

@AlanM156 said:

I don't know the extent to which this is still in open conversation, but I've long wished for a "Concert" genre in the TMDb data, that would include concert films by both musical acts and stand-up comedians (and other "live stage performance caught on film" releases, as necessary). Right now the mentioned films fall into "Musical" and "Comedy", respectively, but something like, say, Stop Making Sense, is a difference in kind from, say, The Music Man, and that distinction would be useful to recognize in the data.

Thanks for the consideration!

actually I believe you are wrong. Right now "concert films" would not fall into "musical" if you mean it would fall into "musical" as a genre. This site does not have a musical genre, only a musical keyword. If I assume correctly that "Stop Making Sense" is a concert, wheras "The Music Man" is a musical, then there is already a distinction that is made to recognize this difference in the data- concerts are given the "Music" genre, while musicals are given the "musical" keyword.

https://www.themoviedb.org/bible/movie/59f3b16d9251414f20000006

Your point does remain though if you are talking about a distinction between stand up comedy and comedy movies. But, yeah there is actually a distinctino already made between musicals and music concerts.

@travisbell Where is this currently with progress? As its quite annoying that Musical is missing as a genre on Letterboxd and its key that its added here in the first place. Ideally change wise I'd love these to be added:

• Film-Noir
• Foreign (English is not the main language)
• Holiday (Christmas, Halloween etc)
• Musical
• Music Documentaries & Concerts
• Stand-up Comedy (mainly from a selfish perspective so i can hide and filter these out on Letterboxd)

@GameOverRob said:

• Foreign (English is not the main language)

I definitely don't think "Foreign" should be a genre. A genre based on what language is spoken? Sounds like something that isnt a genre at all imo.

@softpillow said:

@GameOverRob said:

• Foreign (English is not the main language)

I definitely don't think "Foreign" should be a genre. A genre based on what language is spoken? Sounds like something that isnt a genre at all imo.

Whilst I agree entirely with your sentiments - it just makes it super easy for filtering.

@GameOverRob said:

Whilst I agree entirely with your sentiments - it just makes it super easy for filtering.

I dunno in what way youre requiring filtering but there already exists "spoken languages" field so maybe the solution imo would just be to find a way to use that to do what youre needing rather than trying to use the genre field to solve your needs.

I can't believe this thread has been open more than 10 years.

After a couple years as a heavy user and contributor to TMDB, here's what I think:

• Drama is so broad as to be useless unless combined with other genres and keywords
• Crime and War only seem useful to people wishing to avoid those topics - perhaps on moral grounds
• Family seems like an outdated proxy for content rating
• Factual would be more versatile than History
• Biography and Musical would be nice (although I'd take Factual over Biography)
• Holiday would be nice, but controversial (see: Die Hard)
• Filmed theatrical productions - whether play or musical - deserve a genre to distinguish them from screen productions, much like Animation is distinguished from live action

Ben

@benfishbus said:

I can't believe this thread has been open more than 10 years.

After a couple years as a heavy user and contributor to TMDB, here's what I think:

• Drama is so broad as to be useless unless combined with other genres and keywords

Drama is very useful. It is broad yes, but it basically covers any movie and show that primarily deals with and is seriously (non-humourously) focussed on interpersonal/social conflict or emotional conflict and isnt focussed on other things like mystery, romance, or intended to cause other emotions/experiences like comedy or horror. There is a reason Drama is one of the standard genres that has been recognised as far as I'm aware since like forever or at least for a long time. There are definitely a ton of movies and shows where this is useful and there is definitely a need for people interested in watching something that fits that specific type of content (even if it is a type of content that covers a lot of things).

Side note: Obviously a movie or show can be a combination of drama and other genres, even the ones I described as what drama is not. But that's why the genre should exist- on top of it describing a partcular focus on social or emotional conflict, there are a lot of content out there that is not a combination and is only a drama.

• Factual would be more versatile than History

I don't think it would. Factual would become controversial imo. History as a genre imo refers to any movie or show that is set in a historical context to tell a story or a version of events of things that have happened in the past. It is not at all necessarily a claim about truth or accuracy. Factual would be controversial because its a word that would put a lot of energy/weight into whether or not movies are true or false, whether or not details in the movie are accurate at capturing all kinds of reality. Not only does this focus not really imo reflect what a genre is supposed to be about, but it also would just cause a lot of arguments since obviously the truth about history or even things in the present day are extremely contentious and to a large extent will be understood differently subject to different viewers/audiences and different filmakers' perspectives and backgrounds, etc. In other words it would be difficult to use this genre to categorize movies/shows because it would be difficult to come to agreement or consensus about how to determine which movies/shows are "factual" or not.

Besides there are already genres that imo would already cover the movies/shows that I would imagine you would cover with "Factual". Besides "History", there is already "Documentary", and "Biography" would also be good perhaps. These imo would be better suited as genres than "Factual". These wouldnt come with the kind of baggage that a word like "Factual" would imo come with as I've described.

• Crime and War only seem useful to people wishing to avoid those topics - perhaps on moral grounds

No. People are definitely interested in seeking out movies and shows that deal with both/either Crime or War. I dont know where you get the idea that there isnt a huge interest of audiences that are interested in these two genres. And even so, it also is a valid reason for having a genre if people want to use that genre to avoid those movies and shows- that's the purpose of genres! Theyre there to categorize and summarise the kind of experience or the broad subject of movies/shows so people can more easily find thigns they want to watch AND filter out things they don't want to watch.

Genres that I feel should be added for movies:

1. Sport (if War or Music are a thing)
2. Musical (quite confusing with Music with several films wrongly classified there, and many rightly missing that)
3. Stand Up Comedy

Remove:

1. TV Movie - quite useless and outdated for this OTT era
2. Western.- what even is that? Why is it? Feels very region/ culture dependent, and not truly a "genre". You won't ever see a Western Chinese or Indian film.
3. Family - feels outdated way to tell its friendly for all ages.

@travisbell said:

I didn't realize TV movie stayed on my keep list, that was supposed to be removed.

And 12 years later, it's still here. Makes 0 sense, hope it's actioned upon soon.