TV TALK

Thank you to everyone who contributed during tv_talk’s Rec Fest! These posts are now linked to from a community sticky post, as well as the community profile. They remain open for contributions at any time, and we hope when you find a show you consider a really great watch that you add an entry for it at one of the posts.

Sadly this month we will be saying goodbye to our mod misbegotten, who wants to thank everyone for helping make the community such a friendly and informative space. Speaking personally, I really appreciate the time and thought she’s contributed to community planning and activities and am glad I had her feedback and help.

Fortunately we will have a new mod joining in over the next few weeks, feurioo! Please feel free to reach out to me or feurioo now or in the future if you have questions, concerns, or suggestions about the comm!

Regular posting of TV Tuesday and Speak Up Saturday will resume this week.

Hopefully everyone has been selecting some shows to rec next week! As this will be our first go at this, we wanted to set up this post for any questions people have (now or after the fest starts).

A post will be going out each day beginning Sunday with the genre(s) of the day and information on what to include in your recs. This would be:

Show Title:
Audience Rating: Young Children/All Ages/Teen and Up/Mature Content
Warnings: (Could include gory content, raunchy situations, explicit sex, offensive content, etc.)
Length of Episodes: (30 minutes/1 hour/Other)
Length of Series: (Number of seasons or number of episodes)
Why you recommend it: (What draws you to it? What niche does it fill/mood is it good for?)

You can copy and paste the following code into your comment.

<strong>Show Title:</strong> <strong>Audience Rating:</strong> <strong>Warnings:</strong> <strong>Length of Episodes:</strong> <strong>Length of Series:</strong> <strong>Why you recommend it:</strong>

Feel free to include any other information you’d like, such as what year(s) the show was originally broadcast, standout cast members, or what other shows it may connect to or be similar to. You can also include outside links to Wikipedia, Fanlore, IMDB, your favorite review etc. which contain more show information.

If you have a question about making a recommendation, please post here, and also check here to see if the question has already been answered!

Our schedule will be:

Sunday: Family viewing/Children's Shows
Monday: Comedies
Tuesday: Dramas
Wednesday: Sci Fi/Fantasy
Thursday: Mysteries or Horror
Friday: Romances (shows that focus on a couple or romance theme, even if they cross into other genres)
Saturday: Miscellaneous (any shows you don't think fit the other categories!)

Hope to see your recs soon!

After reviewing the results from last week's spoilers discussion post, the mods decided to implement a very broad spoiler policy. There was complete consensus that spoiler protection should apply to posts but that comments would generally be fair game. However what constituted a spoiler had more variation, with at least some people finding that all the examples offered were spoilery.

Therefore we're proposing the following:

a) Spoiler free posts may only contain high level information about a series or non-detailed discussion of TV themes.

b) Comments are 'read at your own risk' unless the author of the post asks you to refrain from spoilers in the comments.

c) If a post contains any specific details about a show it must be spoiler protected by using one or more cut tags. Before the cut tag, note that what follows contains spoilers for an episode number, or a season, or the series as a whole (whichever applies).

We think this will be the simplest way of addressing spoilers in a community which will be discussing a wide variety of programming. Please let us know if you have any questions.