Why do tv show titles tell us the creator (“created by ______”), while movies don’t?
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A movie is a single thing. How exactly you want to define “created by” and who fits that definition may vary from film to film (sometimes it would be the writer (possibly of some earlier source material), sometimes a director, sometimes a producer, etc.), but you can be pretty confident that the person responsible for creating the movie is going to get some major credit on it.
A TV show is a series of smaller things. It may last a long time or have multiple episodes in simultaneous production. It’s quite likely that the person who created the show will not work on every episode. For this reason, it’s more common for each episode to have a “created by” credit to acknowledge that initial contribution.
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