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r/movies vs r/television

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Film community desk vs scripted TV discussion

r/movies describes itself as a large online film community for talking about movies. r/television’s public description limits the scope to content primarily about scripted television programming.

In our directory, movies is larger (about 37.7M members, rank #9) than television (about 18.2M, rank #50). Activity samples show movies posting more often (~200 vs ~59 posts/day). Both samples mix text and links; movies also showed a sizable share of images and some video in the window we collected.

Rule titles on both sides stress spoilers, piracy limits and civil discussion—television also bans recommendation-request threads and gossip in the short titles we collected. Talk theatrical or film-centric titles in movies; keep episode and series talk about scripted TV in television.

  • Choose r/movies for film news, discussion and movie-centric threads.
  • Choose r/television for scripted TV programming—not a general recommendation dump (per its short rule titles).
  • Directory rank is listing order, not a quality score.

Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-07.

r/movies

Movie News and Discussion

/r/movies is the world's largest online film community, with over 37,000,000 members. Come on in and talk about movies with us!

Members
37.7M
7-day growth
+9.8K
Posts/day
199.8
Directory rank
#9
Created
Jan 25, 2008
Submissions
Text or links

Sample mix: text posts 52%, images 20%, links 17%

Topics: Movies, News

Rule titles (short names we collected)

  • Do Familiarize Yourself With Our Rules.
  • No Intentional Antagonism or Negative Attention Whoring
  • No Spam & Self-promotion - Same Source Posts
  • No Image Posts & Memes
  • No Ambiguous/Misleading/Inaccurate Information or Clickbait in the Submission Title
  • No Extraneous Comic Book Movie Submissions
  • No Repost or Discussion Threads of New Releases
  • No Spoilers
  • No Encouraging Piracy
  • No Subreddit Brigading
  • AI Generated Garbage
  • No Low Effort Posts

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About this community: r/movies (#9, about 37.7 million) is a large film discussion community. Rules ban image posts and memes, spam/self-promo, clickbait titles, encouraging piracy, and spoilers. Samples ~199.8 ppd.

r/television

📺 Television Discussion and News

For content primarily about and related to scripted television programming

Members
18.2M
7-day growth
+2.2K
Posts/day
58.5
Directory rank
#50
Created
Jan 25, 2008
Submissions
Text or links

Sample mix: text posts 47%, links 40%, videos 13%

Topics: News, TV Shows

Rule titles (short names we collected)

  • No spoilers
  • No piracy
  • No duplicate news/old news
  • No political reporting except for late night shows
  • No bad titles
  • No being uncivil to other users
  • No threads to ask for a recommendation
  • No requests for help
  • No non-top level sources
  • No gossip
  • No off-topic posts
  • Other rules

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About this community: r/television ranks #50 on SubMouse’s SFW Top list (about 18.2 million subscribers in the directory). Catalogue framing: For content primarily about and related to scripted television programming Moderation themes that shape the room include: No spoilers; No piracy; No duplicate news/old news; No political reporting except for late night shows.

Supported differences

Aspectr/moviesr/television
Public focus (from each community’s public description) /r/movies is the world's largest online film community, with over 37,000,000 members. Come on in and talk about movies with us! For content primarily about and related to scripted television programming
Size
r/movies is larger in our directory (about 2.1×).
 37.7M members 18.2M members
Posting activity (our sample) 199.8/day 58.5/day
Common post types in our sample text posts 52%, images 20%, links 17% text posts 47%, links 40%, videos 13%
Topic tags on SubMouse Movies, News News, TV Shows
Selected rule titles (short names we collected) Do Familiarize Yourself With Our Rules.; No Intentional Antagonism or Negative Attention Whoring; No Spam & Self-promotion - Same Source Posts; No Image Posts & Memes; No Ambiguous/Misleading/Inaccurate Information or Clickbait in the Submission Title No spoilers; No piracy; No duplicate news/old news; No political reporting except for late night shows; No bad titles

What they share

  • Shared SubMouse topics: News

Rules and tone we can verify

For r/movies we collected short rule titles covering familiarizing yourself with rules, no antagonism, no spam/self-promotion, no image posts and memes, no misleading titles, limits on comic-book-movie spam and new-release repost threads, no spoilers, no encouraging piracy, and no brigading.

For r/television: no spoilers; no piracy; no duplicate/old news; no political reporting except late-night shows; no bad titles; civility; no threads asking for a recommendation; no help requests; no non-top-level sources; no gossip.

Where this comparison comes from

Public titles, descriptions and member counts from SubMouse’s SFW directory (see page date). Short rule titles and posting-activity samples SubMouse collected for both. Rule lines are short titles only — not full sidebar text.

Members and public descriptions come from SubMouse's safe-for-work directory (as of 2026-11-02 UTC); 7-day growth measured from 2026-10-26. Posts/day and post-type mixes appear when we have an activity sample. Rule lines are short titles, not the full sidebar. Directory rank is listing order — communities outside the current Top 100 open in the info tool instead of a full community page.

Comparisons we prepared

Hand-written explanations for pairs where the public descriptions and rules support a real distinction: