I'm dabbing with adding “Known For" in Callsheet. Unfortunately, there's no curated list available from TMDB, so I have to do… ✨ algorithms ✨ to try to back into the best-est answer for people.
I'm *satisfied* with what I've come up with, but I'm not *overjoyed* by it. Most especially because the order can be unintuitive.
What do you think? I'll post some examples as a reply in a moment.
For what it's worth, my current approach is, broadly:
• For movies, choose starring roles first, and move down from there
• For movies where the actor was the star, choose popular (per TMDB) titles first
• For TV, just blindly go by the show’s popularity and hope for the best, because TMDB doesn't give me starring role info
• Mix a handful or TV and movie, and hope for the best.
Not presently doing anything with recency, but that's an interesting idea. 🧐
A *ton* of you recommended the obvious answer for TV shows, which I'm embarrassed to admit I didn't think about: episode count.
Jennifer Aniston has been in a zillion episodes of "Friends”, but only 1 episode of 30 Rock. I'll be using episode counts for TV going forward.
Thanks, all. 💙
This sort of collaboration is what makes developing Callsheet so much fun. I don't always need (or want 🫣) broad collaboration like this, but it's *so great* when I do. 😊
@caseyliss is there any chance of a “lookup in IMDB” feature. As much as I’d love to stay within Callsheet forever, I’m increasingly finding that TMDB has incomplete data and I’m having to fallback to the shitshow that is IMDB. I know it would suck a bit to have to do it, but there’s already links out of Callsheet to IMDB Trivia. Going direct to a performer/production page would be appreciated and would mean Callsheet can still be the first port of call.
