QuoteDisplay MoreOriginally posted by ethanedwards@Jan 30 2006, 05:14 AM
Hi
I agree, this should be included,
but I don't agree with switching TV shows To the Filmography.
I think they should be, kept separate, otherwise, it will all get confusing.
To be factual, a Filmography, should only include Full feature Movies,
which were made for theatre release.
TV films, should be separated and treated as such.
Our Filmography, only lists, theatre releases.
How can Duke presenting a Dick Powell film,
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Chester,
I'm not certain exactly which IMDb decision you had reference to when you wrote I might be able to shed a little light on the reasoning. But, they recently installed a new program they call Full Episode Support, that is supposed to be able to list the cast/crew credits on every television program by the episode...e.g....each episode of "Gunsmoke" will now have a site page of its own. Before, the "Gunsmoke" listing had just the regulars shown (from all the years) and below that the people who appeared in various episodes were all lumped together under "Guest." Never mind that these people were actors hired to play a fictional role in some "Gunsmoke" episode and calling them a Guest was inane to the Nth degree.
Anyway, this Full Episode Support program, in theory, would have enabled an IMDb "User" to look up specific episodes of ANY television series to see who played what on each. But, when this program went "live" a few days after the first of the year, it appears to have had a mind of its own (the site is really, really good about installing programs they run amok, as they evidently don't do any cause-and-effect or consequences measurements before they let a mad cow out of the barn)...and, at the moment, Full Episode Support has screwed up just about everything on site in huge glumps, including the few site pages on films and people that were correct...and those were few indeed to begin with.
One more time...if any of you see something on there that appears a bit off plumb, the odds are about 99-1 that it indeed is plumb off plumb...and one needs to walk carefully through this mine field of misinformation...especially at the moment, and until they get this mess fixed. Don't hold your breath. They have programmed-created messes from Day One that still have not been corrected. On their present course, they are rapidly approaching Wikipedia for unreliability.
Les