Some changes have been made to the Movie and TV forums. In short, when starting a new thread in either of the forums a valid TMDB URL or ID is required.
TMDB is short for The Movie Database and it is community driven index of movies and TV shows. For those familiar with IMDB, the concept is the same but instead of acting as a shell for promoting Amazon sales & service (IMDB was bought by Amazon some years ago) TMDB instead relies on public contributed edits.
Just visit TMDB and find the movie or TV show that you would like to create a new thread for. Then you can copy and paste either the URL or ID into the subject field of the new thread in the Movie and TV forums.
For example, if you wanted to create a new thread about Wheel of Time the TMDB URL is
When creating your new thread, enter the TMDB URL or ID as the subject and enter your comments about the show as normal. The TMDB automatic information will be inserted as the post #1 in the thread and your comments will be inserted as post #2. Note: Only TV shows can be entered in the TV forum and only movies can be entered in the movie forum.
For general discussions about movies or TV shows, like "Do you like drama shows?", can still be created in the Open Chat forum.
TMDB is short for The Movie Database and it is community driven index of movies and TV shows. For those familiar with IMDB, the concept is the same but instead of acting as a shell for promoting Amazon sales & service (IMDB was bought by Amazon some years ago) TMDB instead relies on public contributed edits.
Just visit TMDB and find the movie or TV show that you would like to create a new thread for. Then you can copy and paste either the URL or ID into the subject field of the new thread in the Movie and TV forums.
For example, if you wanted to create a new thread about Wheel of Time the TMDB URL is
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/71914-the-wheel-of-time
. Copy & paste that URL into the subject field when in the TV forum and your new thread will automatically pull in the TV shows description, poster, and other information! The ID is the numeric part of the URL so in this case the TMDB URL is https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/71914-the-wheel-of-time
and the ID is 71914
. Either value can be used when creating new threads.When creating your new thread, enter the TMDB URL or ID as the subject and enter your comments about the show as normal. The TMDB automatic information will be inserted as the post #1 in the thread and your comments will be inserted as post #2. Note: Only TV shows can be entered in the TV forum and only movies can be entered in the movie forum.
For general discussions about movies or TV shows, like "Do you like drama shows?", can still be created in the Open Chat forum.