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When you're talking prequels, are you referring to filmed prequels? The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery was a prose prequel to The Angels Take Manhattan, for instance.

CzechOut wrote: I don't see any need for a special parameter. If you can define for me the actual difference between content delivery methods these days, I'd be much obliged. As far as I can work out, it's all TV, and its all web. There's no distinction between them, so they're all (TV story), simply because that harmonises usage since 1963. That is, we could call The Curse of the Black Spot a webcast, because it was, but that makes it unnecessarily difficult to compare it with, say, The Smugglers.

(TV story) means, simply, that it could be commonly and easily viewed on a TV. This has been the meaning of that dab term since at least Dreamland. And it makes sense to go with a more forward-looking definition, because there are an increasing number of editors who just won't get a distinction based upon "method of content delivery". It might, in fact, be time to think of changing our dab terms again, swapping (TV story) for (video story), which will cover all cases better — even if there's the slight possibility that older British fans might consider think we're talking about "stories on VHS".

I've been wondering about some of the dab terms for a while. I always thought it was strictly content delivery of the original release (unless it was something that was meant to be delivered one way and then ended up being delivered another, like The Night of the Doctor being a webcast when it was intended to be televised first). But then I became confused about stories like Last Night (and the other DVD exclusive minisodes) which seemed like they would fall under the HOMEVID category - "any adventure which wasn't broadcast, but was instead first published on a home video format, like VHS, DVD, or Blu-ray" - but are instead labeled TV stories.