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Okay. After googling some names, I found it only one site sometimes uses that U format so I though whoever was adding it added it from there and disregarded all the rest of the source. But okay, if this was preference here, will just add AKA instead. Thanks for letting me know.

Hi Tom,

Yes, I believe we touched this topic as this is a somewhat weird case, and in those series they do mention those subseries as specials to the main series. They are also elements that aren't touched in the main episodes and are left for those specials but follow the same timeline of events. It is a weird format, but separating for example "War Against Humanity" would feel like taking important part of the main series and simply separating it because of the policy. Indeed, these are all special sub-series. Perhaps I could separate those.

However, there's quite a lot of those, and they all have descriptions and gallery and cast, and I don't have a way to simply split these somehow, and would have to re-add existing episodes and then delete the current ones, right? Is there a better way of handling this?

Also, there are always exceptions to the rule, so this may be one of those cases. For example we didn't split 30 Perry Mason movies into new series but decided to add them all as specials to the last season which also made ratio of specials and regulars quite peculiar.

When you mention linking those subseries as serial specials, that does sound good. Didn't realise we have another way of handling specials. Just tell me, is there a way to work with existing episodes without having to recreate and reupload everything to a separate subshows or if there isn't, I'll work on it little by little until I create them anew and delete old ones?

Cheers!

Hi Tom,

I'm going to create separate shows for those sub-series. Will start with "Spies & Ties" for now. The largest one is definitely "War Against Humanity", but I think that one is intended to be watched together with regular episodes since it just covers different aspect of the war during same period. Also regular episodes often reference those other sub-series with things that aren't mentioned in detail in regular episodes. The thing with "War Against Humanity" is that it also follows World War 2 in real-time as regular episodes.

If I create new shows for this I think they should all be subtitles to the main title.

For example:

- World War Two: Week by Week - Spies & Ties (this are fairly new series, but do seem to take pace and are 10+ eps already)
- World War Two: Week by Week - War Against Humanity (these were once or twice a month, but not they are once a week)
- World War Two: Week by Week - Vatican at War (this is most recent, not sure if this is short subseries that will end with 2 eps or if it'll keep going)
- World War Two: Week by Week - On the Homefront (these are most scarce, maybe 1-2 per year, focus on food and things at home during WW2)

Stuff that I would leave under specials are:

- Regular special episodes (every now and then these cover specific topic, like introducing of a new weapon or specific battle, etc.)
- Biographies (those are also specials that cover specific person)
- Out of the Foxholes (those are answers to patrons' questions)
- Across the Airwaves (those are war stories read from various people who submitted them, there is only handful of those in total)
- The Chieftain WW2 Special (these are specials that cover various tanks in detail by Chieftain)

Before I go with separation, just want to ask what you thing about this? Does this sound good?

Note that in "The Great War: Week by Week" there were only specials, there weren't really any subseries there so I don't think any splitting into separate shows is necessary there.

I would assess The Great War in the same way if specials have a similar subtitle they should be their own show. 

I'm afraid moving over manually is the only way to create them. 

Any subseries needs to be split regardless, just in the same way we'd do it for any other show. So 'Biography' etc, all will need their own guides too. 

If the subseries appear with the WW2 In the title then that's fine. 

Perry Mason is an exception since the main show ended and then continued as specials. A similar exception would be Stacey Dooley, which aired a ton of series and then just aired specials for years before retuning with a series this year. 

Okay, will split biographies as well. But for all those sub-series you can't tell if they're ongoing or finished etc. since they're all tied to main WW2 Week by Week series and don't appear as standalone series like some others do on their Timeghost channel. But okay, will start splitting little by little.

Okay, just finished splitting them, you can see it here...

https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/49147/world-war-two-week-by-week/relations

...I've created 6 sub-series, though there are a few minor ones I'll probably split as well tomorrow.

Oh, I did not know that. The video file included borders when I captured images. I think this is the only show where I captured some such shots with black borders. Please, delete them all. I'll be sure to trim them out next time.

Ok, will do that bit later. Cheers :)

What about shots like these...

https://www.tvmaze.com/episodes/55717/that-70s-show-1x20-a-new-hope/gallery

...you can see they added black borders only for Star Wars "daydreaming" sequence, so I left them there to be in the same ratio with the rest of the regular images. Should they be removed in such cases or are these acceptable exceptions?

You can use WandaVision as a reference on how different aspect ratios should look in the gallery.

Oh, I see. Then please delete those two Star Wars-like shots.

PS: I bet we don't have this problem with "24" TV series since they often use 4 smaller videos with black borders ;))