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r/television vs r/movies

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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/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.

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.

Supported differences

Aspectr/televisionr/movies
Public focus (from each community’s public description) For content primarily about and related to scripted television programming /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!
Size
r/movies is larger in our directory (about 2.1×).
 18.2M members 37.7M members
Posting activity (our sample) 58.5/day 199.8/day
Common post types in our sample text posts 47%, links 40%, videos 13% text posts 52%, images 20%, links 17%
Topic tags on SubMouse News, TV Shows Movies, News
Selected 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 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

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: