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The result of the move request was: moved. Moved to Archie (TV series). (closed by non-admin page mover) Frost 16:24, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Archie (TV serial) → Archie (miniseries) – This is a miniseries and is classified as such on IMDb. Another editor recently changed the parenthetical content of the page's title to "TV serial". This is not a serial. It's 4 episodes. Cannon, executive producer, refers to it as a miniseries in promo interviews, as do critics for the Boston Herald[1] and Screen Rant[2] for example. Yours6700 (talk) 00:56, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

IMDB is an American website and always refers to British programmes of one series as "miniseries." ITVX refer to Archie as a drama, this is normal parlance for British programmes of this nature. Programmes of one series can be referred to as "TV series" or "TV serials". Serial (radio and television). Critics for Radio Times[3], Glasgow Times, Walesonline, HarowTimes etc, use drama/series interchangeably. Halbared (talk) 10:32, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Support Archie (TV series). In the UK, miniseries usually refers to only two or three episodes. The current American sense is not generally understood. "TV serial", however, would generally be seen as quite old-fashioned. -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:11, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  I would also support "TV series", as it's normal parlance for British one series programmes. Though "serial" is still used by British production companies and distributors, and as an aside and a moot point, series of 2/3/4 episodes episodes are normally refereed to as 'two-part dramas' or series by the production companies and channels.Halbared (talk) 16:44, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The fact that this is even being argued about is utterly inane. Archie is a 4-episode miniseries, just like Lonesome Dove or The Thorn Birds. To call it a full-blown series is like saying water is dry. Yours6700 (talk) 00:53, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Those are American programmes that use different terminology.Halbared (talk) 10:07, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• I would also support reverting back to "Archie (TV series)" as it was for many months from creation, it was fine as it was. Hildreth Gazzard (talk) 08:46, 3,January 2025 (UTC)

I suggest you consult your dictionary, because Archie is certainly not a TV series. A TV series is a cancellable show consisting of seasons, with each season consisting of around 20 episodes (provided it hasn't been canceled). A miniseries is not cancellable as it's basically one long movie that's been split into a few episodes. Seinfeld is a TV series. Law & Order is a TV series. But Archie is categorically a miniseries. That's why IMDb has categorized it as a miniseries. If it were a TV series, IMDb would have categorized it as a TV series. What part of this do you not understand? Yours6700 (talk) 00:53, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is a purely an American term and point of view. A 'TV series' can consist of one series. Pride and Prejudice, Smiley’s People, Zen et al are all TV series, these programmes consist of only one series. Archie is a British TV series.Halbared (talk) 10:03, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yahoo News UK calls it a miniseries [4] (so, not purely an American term/point of view). Calling this a 'TV series' is misleading in the extreme, and 'TV serial' will just confuse readers (serial hasn't been commonly used in that context since like the '50s). Miniseries on the other hand is a term every English speaker understands. Yours6700 (talk) 01:03, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

^[1], ^[2], ^[3], ^[4], ^[5], ^[6], ^[7], ^[8]. ITV (production company), the Guardian, the Telegraph, Harrowtimes, Walesonline, the Independent and the Guardian, all refer to Archie as a series, these reliable sources are not misleading anybody. Serial doesn't confuse people, as you'll see in this RFC over 'serial' versus 'TV serial'Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (television)/Archive 17, you can see from British TV that serial was used a lot more recently than the 1950's. "TV series" is a term that everyone understands, and as you can see from the sources, is correct. Halbared (talk) 10:55, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]