Talk:Television documentary

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This is somewhat of a sub-stub, and I don't think it has room for expansion. I'll redirect it to Documentary film.--Commander Keane 10:03, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• I see a merge template has been added to this article. I do oppose such a merge: film and television are distinct enough as media to merit their own documentary articles, imo.
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I am for the merge because the word film means any motion picture and tv is a motion picture. Ramaksoud2000 (talk) 02:26, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• I support merging too, per Commander Keane and Ramaksoud2000. TV is no longer a distinctly different media. The differences between docu TV series and docu films are not any different from those between comedy series and comedy films for example.--Roy17 (talk) 12:28, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Is This is Your Life really a documentary? ACEOREVIVED (talk) 08:46, 29 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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As of 18 November 2020, this editing process to the 'Television documentary' article has been complete. Any further feedback on future/required updates to the additional content would be much appreciated. Kind regards, DigiWikiWriter14 — Preceding unsigned comment added by DigiWikiWriter14 (talk • contribs) 03:24, 18 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This article's lede (at least) ignores that not all episodic TV "documentary" shows are "TV series" – many are just "television programs/programmes" that cover varied, unrelated topics from episode to episode. For example, TV shows like Nature (TV program) and Nova (American TV program) are "documentary television programs", not "documentary television series" with "an ordered collection of two or more televised episodes". The article's lede needs to be updated to reflect this distinction. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 20:34, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Currently the article includes this at the top:

[[File:Watching Vietnam War Footage.jpg|right|thumb|250px|A man and woman who seem to be watching a documentary, but the "footage" is actually a paper image glued onto the TV screen using [[adhesive tape]].]]

The reason the image was created this way is almost certainly because CRTs and photography are notoriously difficult to make play nice with each other. It's unfortunate the creator of that image only did a "good enough for government work" job, but pointing out these inadequacies in the actual caption at best distracts from the article topic. The right response to figuring out that the sellotaped simulacrum doesn't look right would be either to retouch the image or to replace it with another. The article's top image caption is not the place to discuss the image's congenital flaws. —ReadOnlyAccount (talk) 21:42, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

 I've replaced it by an unfaked image of an audience watching a TV documentary.  --Lambiam 18:23, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]