Splitting two different Greg the Bunny series

JoeSullivan wrote 3 years ago: 1

https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/2255/greg-the-bunny

Greg the Bunny was once a Fox sitcom, which was cancelled in its first season. This show was a sitcom about behind the scenes of a children's show, where the puppets are real. (2002) half-hour sitcom

( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280257/ )

IFC then created a Greg the Bunny series a couple years later that ran for two seasons, that was an entirely different show. This show has Greg doing movie parodies. (2005-2006) 12-minute shorts

( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0484167/ )

These are different shows despite having the same title and based on the same puppet.

The problem: They are listed in TVMaze as one show, with the two IFC series listed as seasons 2-3 of the Fox series.

Is there any way to easily split these into the two correct shows, or will the extra seasons have to be hand-deleted from the Fox version and hand-added into a new IFC show page?

JuanArango wrote 3 years ago: 1

@JoeSullivan wrote:
https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/2255/greg-the-bunny

Greg the Bunny was once a Fox sitcom, which was cancelled in its first season. This show was a sitcom about behind the scenes of a children's show, where the puppets are real. (2002) half-hour sitcom
( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280257/ )
IFC then created a Greg the Bunny series a couple years later that ran for two seasons, that was an entirely different show. This show has Greg doing movie parodies. (2005-2006) 12-minute shorts
( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0484167/ )

These are different shows despite having the same title and based on the same puppet.
The problem: They are listed in TVMaze as one show, with the two IFC series listed as seasons 2-3 of the Fox series.

Is there any way to easily split these into the two correct shows, or will the extra seasons have to be hand-deleted from the Fox version and hand-added into a new IFC show page?

It would have to be done manually.

The important question is how IFC listed the 2005/06 show, did they say its a continuation or a new show?

JoeSullivan wrote 3 years ago: 1

@JuanArango wrote:
It would have to be done manually.
The important question is how IFC listed the 2005/06 show, did they say its a continuation or a new show?

It was a new show. Actually IFC wasn't so much a full show as it was a series of sketches about 12 minutes long that weren't related to each other, whereas the Fox show was no different than a standard sitcom, complete with a cast (incl. Seth Green and Sarah Silverman) and some continuing storylines. The IFC sketches had nothing to do with what was seen on the Fox show, nor did it retain any characters other than two puppets... who originated on IFC in sketches prior to the Fox series.

Greg the Bunny's look is different on IFC than on Fox as well.

Thus the Fox DVD of its one season being called "The Complete Series" ( https://www.amazon.com/Greg-Bunny-Complete-Seth-Green/dp/B0002PYSB0 ).

JuanArango wrote 3 years ago: 1

@JoeSullivan wrote:
It was a new show. Actually IFC wasn't so much a full show as it was a series of sketches about 12 minutes long that weren't related to each other, whereas the Fox show was no different than a standard sitcom, complete with a cast (incl. Seth Green and Sarah Silverman) and some continuing storylines. The IFC sketches had nothing to do with what was seen on the Fox show, nor did it retain any characters other than two puppets... who originated on IFC in sketches prior to the Fox series.

Greg the Bunny's look is different on IFC than on Fox as well.
Thus the Fox DVD of its one season being called "The Complete Series" ( https://www.amazon.com/Greg-Bunny-Complete-Seth-Green/dp/B0002PYSB0 ).

sounds fair, we need to separate the two shows then!