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Topic: Salem's Lot (1979)

11th Aug 2021, 4:24 AM
	Twistin Member since Jan 2012 2057 Points	The problem here, as I mentioned in my previous post, is the current interpretation of mini-series as a TV program and each part as episodes (since, I assume, due to the word series and the fact that it appears on television.) TV uses that term to accommodate the presence of more than one airing, rather than the content. If Until the End of the World debuted on TV, those segmented airings would then be declared episodes of a mini-series, yet when airing in a cinema, it's a single body of work. The only difference being the venue the film first shows. That should not declare whether it is a movie or a television program (it's still a TV movie, the series part only specifies the divided airings). The titles of these two worlds are a bit vague, Cinema possibly suggests theatrical films (which would, if we were explicit, render inappropriate all other TV movies, most shorts, as well as modern films debuting online and direct-to-video) So if that is the case, there should be a purge-a-rama. That would be based on the fact that those two TV movies were recently removed from Cinema World. I doubt that is the case, though. Likewise, TV World is equally vague, possibly even being inclusive to theatrical films aired on TV with different edits and / or scenes added that were not present in the theatrical versions (there's quite a number of these instances). I don't see the problem in those crossovers, but I don't believe so-called mini-series' (at least the 2-part variety) should be treated the same as the traditional definition of TV program. And as a final note, the term mini-series follows the US terminology of a TV program as TV series, so the term is more explicitly appropriate with many of the European 5 or 6-part series (serie?) where the individual parts are indeed unique episodes. If this were a European term, I am guessing it would refer to the equal of a US season? So, does the term suggest that the "Salem's Lot" mini-series is a (US) TV program or a European season? Neither make sense, mini-series could only mean long (TV) movie aired in multiple parts, rather than individual episodes.