It's listed as a TV series.... interesting!

floofypooh | May 19, 09:15 CET

floofypooh, the inaccuracy of imdb is legendary. This is just one more in a long list of erroneous entries. Reading anything more into it being listed as a TV series is just plain naive and silly.

TamaraC | May 19, 09:38 CET

You'll note "The Guild" is also regarded as a TV show. Perhaps this is the closest they have since web serieseseses are ridiculously new (and still pretty rare when they are worth cataloging). So give the poor old imdb a break. It was inaccurate a LONG time before Wikipedia was!

Mort | May 19, 10:59 CET

Wow, TamaraC, you sure read a lot into my "interesting" comment! I am fully aware of imdb's legendary inaccuracies and I don't consider myself naive (although at times I have been told that I am silly.) I had been thinking that imdb either did not know any better, or hadn't gotten around to creating an "internet musical" category. :^)

In retrospect, instead of typing "interesting" I should have typed "amusing."

floofypooh | May 19, 11:04 CET

Amusing would have been a word subject to much less misunderstanding.

TamaraC | May 19, 11:13 CET

I don't think "interesting" meant anything other than interesting - my own thoughts on reading that comment were "yeah, interesting, I wonder how long it will be before IMDB starts up a section for the future of entertainment" "webisodes" for want of a better word are going to start becoming more and more popular and IMDB will eventually have to create a new section. I didn't think for a second that anyone was suggesting Dr H would become a tv series - I think people deserve a little more credit here and I don't think we should have to think for an hour about the best single word to use in case one person might misinterpret it

[ edited by Beth'll on 2008-05-19 08:29 ]

Beth | May 19, 11:29 CET

Thanks, Beth'll! I also was wondering what the new term for internet entertainment would be - webisodes, internet series, web series... has there been a word or phrase coined for this yet? Any suggestions?

floofypooh | May 19, 16:24 CET

'intertainment'
'netgrammes'
'streamshows'
'bandwidthivores'

'Sanctuary' is also down as a TV show though, confusingly, it is one (now). Is that IMDB being prescient or are they just the proverbial stopped clock ?

Saje | May 19, 16:47 CET

It is of interest to me as well that they list it as a tv show. I also expect it may be one of those "what is this new media you speak of?" kind of things.

Sunfire | May 19, 17:38 CET

I believe “websodes” already was used by Galactica , but not so sure.

Brasilian Chaos Man | May 19, 18:09 CET

What, no pictures yet?

korkster | May 19, 21:13 CET

"Webisode" is commonly used to refer to an episode made specifically for the web. It is also being incorrectly used by some coughfeliciacough to refer to whole series. :)

A series is made up of up episodes (of which webisodes are sometimes a subset).
A web series is made up of webisodes.

Personally, I think it's a good thing to continue using something generic like "web series" rather than coming up with a snazzy catch phrase, since the line between traditional series and new media series is likely to become more and more blurred over the coming years.

RayHill | May 20, 00:36 CET