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Well perhaps "television" does have a little to do with broadcast. But where it's broadcast is not terribly significant, or, at least, cannot be a determining factor that means anything in this day and age. TV stories have been released exclusively on TV and later on video in the past, but nowadays your average episode of Doctor Who can be watched online at the very same time, some TV is produced exclusively for online broadcast or DVD distribution, and some was actually in theatres before anywhere else, which is historically much more typical of films.

And I doubt you would argue that Torchwood series 1 is not television because it's comprised of "webcasts" first released online, right? BBC Three, BBC iPlayer, BBCi, BBC Online/the DW website, heck, even sometimes the BBC and DW YouTube channels, can all, at this point, be considered methods of television distribution. Direct-to-video stories should be included as well for convenience, because they too were produced as part of a television series. I feel like if we ruled those VID it would just get way too confusing, for no reason at all. Television is television. We're going to be looking at the word television as meaning "television industry", rather than meaning "television set" or "television channel".