Re: UK Series - Yes, Prime Minister series number

On 16/01/2013 00:40, Mike Holden wrote:
> This is a new series showing on "Gold". It is a new series, with
> series 1 and 2 having been made several years ago. Now this new
> series ought to be listed as series 3, but radio times, and
> presumably Gold have decided to package it as series 1. I imagine
> this is because they see it as a "re-imagining", since it's a new
> cast etc.
>
> This is completely screwing up MythTV, as it thinks all the new
> episodes have already been recorded, and is therefore skipping them.
>
> I've been on radiotimes.com and added a comment that the series
> number is wrong, but I'm not holding my breath that they will change
> anything.
>
> Is there anything that can be done, therefore, by a fixup in the
> uk_rt feed processing?

I doubt you will get anywhere with Radio Times and similar regarding 
calling it series 3. They will probably regard it as with the reboot of 
Doctor Who, where it seems to be widely accepted that the series 
renumbering restarted with the Christopher Eccleston series being series 1.

Cheers,

John

-- 
John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T

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