Talk:Bloody Sunday (film)

TV Drama or Film ?

In the IMDb it is a film that premiered in TV. Does this make it a TV Drama? Hoverfish 17:52, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

IMDB is (hardly surprisingly) wrong. It was made by a TV company for screening on TV. That it was subsequently released as a feature film in other countries makles no difference. Nick Cooper 08:08, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

It's a bit more complicated than that; it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival a few days before it was shown on TV. I've changed the title to '(TV film)' as a compromise. Cop 633 03:24, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Surely its either a film or it's not a film..? It's not a mini-series or a film short or an episode of a TV series.. so.. a film then..? --Mal 11:18, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

The bottom line is that it was made by a British TV company (Granada), and traditionally British TV does not regard such one-off programmes as "films," even if they are actually made on film (as opposed to a video format). In the past they would be regarded as "plays," although in the last few years "drama" has become an accepted catch-all. Nick Cooper 15:51, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

It's been re-shown multiple times by British TV as if it were a cinema film and has been treated as such in published TV listings. Jimmy McGovern's rival C4 drama Sunday has, on the other hand, disappeared without trace, as it probably deserved. Khamba Tendal (talk) 19:17, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

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Requested move

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The result of the move request was: Move. The consensus is that "TV" is unnecessary. Cúchullain ^t/c 23:25, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

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Bloody Sunday (TV film) → Bloody Sunday (film) – No need to dab with "TV film" as there's no other film with the exact title on WP, per WP:NCF. There could be confusion with the 1971 film, but this can be fixed with the distinguish tag. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 12:37, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

• Agree and just do it. Doesn't seem controversial, unless of course the page won't move without admin tools.--JOJ ^Hutton 15:44, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Yes, I would have just done it, but the target page has been edited more than once, and there was a history of page moves on this article too. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 17:33, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

I figured that was what it was.--JOJ ^Hutton 18:43, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

• Strongly disagree There is a distinct difference between feature films and feature-length television dramas, with Bloody Sunday being the latter. Nick Cooper (talk) 19:24, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
• Support. Even though this is a feature-length television film, there is no other film article on Wikipedia titled Bloody Sunday, therefore the extra disambiguation is not needed. Fortdj33 (talk) 19:29, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
• Comment Bloody Sunday (telefilm) ? -- 70.50.148.248 (talk) 06:52, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
• Support A film is a film, regardless if it is made for TV or the Cinema. Also, nothing is significantly gained by using the world "TV" in the title. It isn't as if we're disambiguating two separate articles, one a film made for TV and another made originally for the Cinema. IJA (talk) 23:13, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Yes, we'd only use "TV" if there was two films of the same title released in the same year. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 07:26, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

On the contrary, there is a very big difference. The UK does not have the same tradition of "TV movies" as the United States or other countries. Historically any self-contained drama was termed a "play" and until fairly recently even that only gave way to "feature-length drama." The term "film" is rare even now, not least because very few were actually shot on film. Nick Cooper (talk) 13:10, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

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