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In television, the format dates back to at least a 1966 ABC broadcast of an adaptation of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, produced by David L. Wolper.
In British television, the term 'miniseries' is almost never used, except in reference to American imports.
'Miniseries' is, however, used as a kind of exonym for British TV series in the United States, where the typical length of six episodes is considered short.
A miniseries, in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes.
Jesus of Nazareth is a six-hour, sixteen-minute televisionminiseries of the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus based on the accounts given in the Christian gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
Sometimes a miniseries would be planned for a certain number of issues, but would run longer or shorter than originally planned.
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