Television Shows, Column Sorting

Under TV Broadcast, we have Title, Director, all the other stuff, and Program Title.

Program Title does not appear in the options to select as a column, like Series and Series Title are. It makes it rather difficult to sort through my citations when I can only see the episode title, such as if the episode is just called something like "Water" and there's about a thousand shows with that exact title for an episode. Is there a way to create a custom title for the citation that exclusively exists for the user to see that the citation is? Basically, renaming "Water" to anything I want, like "Drowning Man" and have that piece of text never appear in my bibliography.

Since, to my knowledge, Program Title and Series are kind of mutually exclusive for television shows, it would also be INCREDIBLY helpful to not only make the name of the entire show appear as its own column, but also to have that column overlap with Series or Series Title, so I don't need to have a separate column for the series title of my podcast citations, television shows, or radio shows.
  • Program Title is just Publication. (You can see these mapped field names if you hover over the fields in the Advanced Search condition drop-down. We'll see if we can add those to the column picker drop-down as well.)
  • Ah, thank you!

    I'm using MLA, and this program is wonderful, barring a few weird things (like not having Creator as one of the contributor options for television shows, which just means I need to remember to swap that out when I copy/paste it). I've built up 43 citations in a fraction of the time I normally take to do everything manually, and I can even use a collection as a bookmark feature for stuff I need to come back to and read later when I have time, or collect potential sources for papers I intend to write.
  • There will be a Series Creator creator type in a future update. For now, you can put it in Extra (e.g., series-creator: Jesse Armstrong) and it will be used in citations (though only APA at the moment) and transferred to the proper field later.
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