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DENCH-and-PALMER wrote: Anything that could be viewed on a television? Well, I think that's a good place to start, D&P, but I think that's too wide. For instance, I can access and watch Youtube on my tv set. For that matter, I can connect my laptop to my tv and read digital collections of DW comics and books! I think one place to start would be to define TV as either "audio-visual DW material which premiered on television" or "audio-visual DW material produced by a television crew." Originally my stance was that of the former, while SOTO held the latter. However, after thinking over the matter and getting a good night's sleep, I think SOTO's position has more credit than I'd thought. Consider various prequels, such as The Making of the Gunslinger, The Great Detective, and Up All Night. All of these a mini-episodes leading into their respective episodes, but because they were released in different modes, they're all given different categories. Gunslinger is a WEBCAST because it premiered online, Detective is TV because it premiered on television, and Up All Night was released direct to DVD. It's consistent on our part to note the various release modes, but I think SOTO has a point: they're all mini-stories produced by the TV crew. Thus, in a sense they are all TV.