It (1990) is a two part television mini-series, as such it should only be in the television section.

This should be available as a movie as well. It only exists today as a movie when you buy the DVD/Blu-ray. This is just creating headache by trying to be correct to a fault. I know how to do this manually but one should not have to just because your views don't line up with the option of having it available in the movies section.

What Alanman said rings true for many entries and is clearly a sticking point since people continually list this as a problem (in spite of the site rules). Specifically, while it was originally aired as listed, the only retail format available now is as one 3 hour film. I suppose it's a shortcoming of the themoviedb as a whole since it doesn't allow for a "movie" to have also been a "tv" [series] nor allow for any type of normalization/reconciliation between the two.

The Miniseries entry here while accurate, on its own is both pedantic and useless to the people who'd never seen it broadcast and instead only purchased/streamed the combined modern format. It should be more of a historical consideration that it was originally broadcast a miniseries.

As a combined format, it has been released by Warner Home Video/New Line Home Video since 1991 as VHS, Laserdisk (1993), DVD (2002), BluRay (current) and so forth which stands to reason that the production is largely regarded as a de facto standalone movie (for retail and archival purposes) since that's the only format available now - it is not sold as a two part miniseries in any medium.

Ideally, one entry could reference the other and use the same data (be reflected/tagged as both a movie and a series), since most consumers of the API will specifically request "movie" OR "tv" type entries.

Are you asking for the data to be duplicated on the TMDb website? That is never going to happen.

However, it is very easy for third party sites to allow the entry as "a movie" and I assume it should be easy for scrapers to accommodate that wish too. See for example the entry on Letterboxd (they imported the TV entry).

Thanks for the reply, definitely don't want duplicates, more or less a flag that would allow the tv series to show as a movie (if a verified single video release can be referenced, for example). It would more or less have been like https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/19614-it where the movie/tv series id is the same and the tv entry is the canonical one but scrapers would still be able to find the entry. No duplicates, just classic database normalization, same as how one actor can be in many different movies/tv series. Clearly this isn't feasible as it stands since tv and movie ids are orthogonal.

That would be tracking releases rather than specifically the show or movie... could more or less be an api-specific feature, and the releases (i.e. miniseries - original 2 part - with episode data; dvd, bluray, etc) this would have the knock-on effect of allowing different releases such as Director's Cut, Extended, Unrated, etc. and relevant information for them (like, director's cut removes such and such, Bluray release is 187minutes, original 190) - in IMDB and TVDB, this is knows as Alternate Versions (i.e. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099864/alternateversions?tab=cz&ref_=tt_trv_alt).

Thanks for the idea on Letterboxd, now to see about a plex and/or filebot agent.