When episode names are changed after their release on streaming services

dpratt wrote 8 years ago: 1

Sorry if this has already been answered.

I noticed that Netflix changed the name of Sense8's A Christmas Special to Happy F-ing New Year. When I saw that I just assumed A Christmas Special wasn't intended to be the name of the episode as it was just a general description of what the show was, not what it was called. In any case they changed the name of the episode after its release.

YouTube Red did the same thing with an episode of Foursome. Except they went backwards. The original episode name was Extra Curr-d*ck-ulars. But now YouTube simply has "Season 2 Premiere!" as the episode title. (Maybe Season 2 wasn't getting good ratings and they decided to pull the episode title?)

What is the policy on this?

tnt wrote 8 years ago: 1

The policy is unclear about that.

I'd say, if the name changed by the original network from the generic one (Episode X, Special Episode or smth.), but other episodes have "normal" names – I'd change it. If the episode already had some meaningful name – I'd leave the original one.

There was cases, when the names was changed, and there was cases when they were not.

I hope somebody from the HCs or CCs give some definite answer.

dpratt wrote 8 years ago: 1

I think the original name is usually the name we want listed here. The Sense8 episode may be a good example of an exception to that though, since the original name was just "A Christmas Special" which is almost like calling it "Season 2 Premiere!" It's not really a name at all. Except Happy F-ing New Year isn't exactly an improvement.

JuanArango wrote 8 years ago: 1

If the original network changes the episode name, we should follow that, but if any other network or streaming service that repeats the show renames it, we will always stay by the original name.