Talk:The Doctor's Meditation (theatrical film)

(TV story)

Does this truly count as a TV story if it has never been broadcast on TV; instead first released in a cinema screening? Notsimonpegg ☎ 01:19, September 17, 2015 (UTC)

I've been researching this question but it's only raising more questions. We've had longstanding stories like First Night (and all other DVD extras) dabbed as TV stories even though they've never appeared on TV. I thought this would be true of The Doctor's Meditation as well. In attempting to get a solid answer on this after seeing this on the talk page, I've found (home videos) is in fact a dab term, but there does not seem to be a dab term for a situation like this one, where The Doctor's Meditation first aired in a theatre. However, all story pages are still required to have dab terms. Mewiet ☎ 02:49, September 18, 2015 (UTC)

I've yet to come across a dab term for releases like this. The dab (film) is apparently an in-universe only dab. I do seem to vaguely recall a debate about The Night of the Doctor having a (TV story) or (webcast) dab because it was initially released as a webcast, but it was originally intended (and indeed later broadcast) to be premiered on TV and the threat of press leaks caused an early webcast release, so I think the decision on that was to leave it as (TV story). I know that BBC America plans to air The Doctor's Meditation tomorrow, but I'm not sure TNOTD situation is applicable here because the original intended release was in movie theatres, for which no dab exists as far as I've found. Mewiet ☎ 03:53, September 18, 2015 (UTC)

It's just been broadcast on Australian television. --MissRatbat ☎ 10:52, September 19, 2015 (UTC)

I've always understood the TV to mean Tele-Visual (made up of sound and pictures) rather than a specific Television broadcast. Geek Mythology ☎ 11:53, September 19, 2015 (UTC)

The existence of "(webcast)" and "(home video)" shows that TV does not just mean "anything with sound and pictures", at least at present. It specifically means things broadcast on television (with the caveat that television-style streaming services, as in the case of Class, count as TV). As such, this should indeed be dabbed as a "(theatrical film)", although a redirect at the "(TV story)" version will be returned because it has been broadcast on TV too. However, much as PROSE covers both "(novel)" and "(short story)", TV remains the correct prefix. Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 19:50, 12 December 2020 (UTC)