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Question: Display Of Director/Writer Of A TV Show On Website
posted by janarSTAFFMOD on May 22, 2017 at 2:01 PM
I have the following question:
I added a director/writer to a tv/web-show via season (not via each episode), because this director, Julie Kalceff, wrote and directed all 30 episodes in all 5 seasons of this show. Here's the edit page:
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/71820-starting-from-now/edit?active_nav_item=crew
But when I go to the seasons and click on any episode, it always says under "Crew" in the left column:
Directed by: No director has been added.
Written by: No writer has been added.
Here's an example:
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/71820-starting-from-now/season/1/episode/1
My question: Is this the result of me doing something wrong during my contribution, or is this part of the bug that came with the new layout a few weeks ago? I mean the bug that season crew regulars doesn't show up on the episode overview here:
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/71820-starting-from-now/season/1/episode/1/cast
Are these 2 things related somehow or is it something else?
Best wishes,
janar
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Reply by Marr 🇳🇱
on May 22, 2017 at 3:30 PM
you're not doing anything wrong. I think this is something travis missed in the new website design! (not the update from a few weeks ago, but a longer while ago -- I've noticed it too, I think it was even the same on the old design, but I just never created a topic. It's great that you did though!) :(
would be great if it would pull the season data for that... for shorter shows/mini series I now add the director/writer on episode page itself, but for full seasons... it would be need if the data was from season crew, just like with the cast!
Reply by janar
on May 22, 2017 at 4:08 PM
@alltimemarr said:
Thanks for your reply, Marr! Now I can sleep without worries ...
Or, if it would be from both, season crew and episode crew? Maybe Travis can send his tiny little tv data minions to both places and they can collect whatever they find?
Reply by Marr 🇳🇱
on May 22, 2017 at 5:40 PM
hahaha yeah, it already fetches episode crew! at least director and writer at episode list, and everything else at show all page.
keeping the episode crew data there was implied:$::$ just also the season director/writer :D