Re: UK Series - Yes, Prime Minister series number

On 16 January 2013 00:40, Mike Holden <[email protected]> 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.

Mike,

This is due to the (conflicting) episode numbering taking precedence,
meaning the other duplicate detection schemes are ignored.

> 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.

I guess it's unlikely that they will change it, but XMLTV might be
able to help downstream instead.

I remember seeing a similar issue last year (or even before that) with
The Killing - BBC Four were showing the original series and CH4 were
showing the US remake. Both used the same numbering which would cause
the same types of conflict (I only recorded the BBC Four version via a
channel-specific schedule so didn't see any issues).

Without the current availability of unique seriesids for
shows/reimaginings sharing the same title, we're currently at the
mercy of these rare conflicts.

> Is there anything that can be done, therefore, by a fixup in the
> uk_rt feed processing?

I've just put updates through for the first 3 episodes of the new
series airing on Gold. Please poke me on the list with details of the
remaining three episodes in case I fail to add them to the fixups
(although I'm recording the new series so should probably notice).

Let me know if the updates solve the issue.

Cheers,
Nick

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