How are shows actually named for TiVo listings?

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The guide data is aggregated by tribune. The actual listings come from the stations and networks. How well that is done depends on how the hard the station employee responsible wants to do their job.

Thanks.

I guess the station down there is just too lazy to do it right.

IMHO the right thing to do in this situation is ambiguous. Sure, it's a TV series. But also, they're movies. List them as episodes, or list them as you would other movies? Neither is perfect.

You can probably find, somewhere in your guide data, a listing or two with a series title like "Movie", and the movie name as the episode title. That's a kind of half-assed version of what you're suggesting. I always hate seeing it in the guide, because you never get the full movie info, and the movies don't show up the same way as regular movies in searches.