Talk:Utopia (2014 American TV series)

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Present tense when referring to the show.[edit]

Per WP:MOSTV present tense should be used when referring to the show. The show itself exists in the present day in the form of recordings, online offerings, and potentially, eventually, DVD sales. It is proper to refer to things that happened during the filming of the show in past tense, since those events did happen in the past. But the show itself has not been destroyed, just because it's not currently being broadcast. PLEASE read the WP:MOSTV article, particularly WP:TVLEAD before making changes to verb tenses in sentences which discuss the show itself. — Bill W. (Talk) (Contrib) (User:Wtwilson3) — 18:51, 4 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I heard there will be no DVD sales since of the bad ratings and the website will be taken down too. The show is as good as forgotten Giggett (talk) 21:05, 4 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Doesn't matter. The show doesn't cease to exist just because it is no longer being aired. Think about it for movies. We don't say Titanic *was* a movie just because it's no longer being shown in theaters. We say Titanic *is* a movie that was released on x-date. It's the same thing. Just because it's no longer airing on tv doesn't mean the footage was destroyed. Keeping references to television shows in present tense is what the Wikipedia community has decided is the appropriate course of action. Please keep that in mind. ICYTIGER'SBLOOD 05:25, 7 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]