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Mini-series or two-parter?

Greetings,

This Wikipedia item doesn't come out and say that the two named episodes are the only episodes that will appear. Was the show canceled after two episodes? Are more episodes to come? That referenced Guardian article states that this presentation is a two-parter by design. The WP article does not specifically say that.

But does that make it a "mini-series"? According to Leslie Halliwell and Philip Purser, in Halliwell's Television Companion, wrote that a miniseries tends to "appear in four to six episodes of various lengths". Stuart Cunningham, in Textual Innovation in the Australian Historical Mini-series, wrote that a miniseries is "a limited run program of more than two and less than the 13-part season or half season block associated with serial or series programming." My emphasis. [NOTE: The citation link to the Museum of Broadcast Communication is dead and I do not have access to the original books.] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniseries#History

And ultimately, even if you want to keep the category of "miniseries", in the United Kingdom, where this programming originated, the term appears to be "serial" instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniseries#History

Thank you for your time, Wordreader (talk) 18:50, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I tend to agree with you: at the moment, it's not a miniseries. I've added some information about The Sun reporting on possible further episodes, but so far there doesn't appear to be any confirmation of this. As it stands, I'm minded to change the descriptor to "drama", but I'll wait a week or so to see if anyone else has any comments. It can always be changed back if a full series is announced. ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 19:22, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If literally only The Sun is reporting on it ... then Wikipedia can't really use it. The Sun is not merely a bad source, it's a deprecated source, that can't be trusted not to make stuff up, exaggerate about basic facts, etc. Read the deprecation RFC linked at WP:THESUN - David Gerard (talk) 19:53, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]