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IceTV EPG Content / Britain's Most Historic Towns not a repeat

« on: January 01, 2021, 05:57:55 PM »

Series 3 of Britain's Most Historic Towns starts with 'Medieval Lincoln' on SBS, 7:35pm, Wed, 6 Jan 2021.

It is marked, in my opinion incorrectly, as a repeat.

It is listed in coming soon as "Series 3 commences 6/1/21. Famed historian and professor Alice Roberts explores Britain's history through the stories of the country's most historic and well-known towns."

There has to be something wrong with IceTV's database, if I am right in my thinking that this is a completely new series. It has only just finished showing in the UK.

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IceTV EPG Content / Re: New shows

« on: December 04, 2020, 05:55:41 PM »

Series 8 of Spiral has landed at SBS On Demand. Billed as the final season.

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IceTV EPG Content / Re: New shows

« on: October 13, 2020, 01:14:24 PM »

To the best of my recollection we haven't seen anything of Inspector Montalbano for some time in Australia. I think maybe Series 11 "A Den of Vipers" and "As Per Procedure", dated 2017, but I could be wrong.

I do keep a close eye on what the BBC has to offer, particularly Saturday night on BBC4, and Series 13 appeared quite recently, I think this year, again two episodes. Now Series 14, two episodes, are showing, the first aired last Saturday and the second next Saturday.

I'm surprised more recent series haven't come here yet, but what appears on BBC tends to show up in Aus sooner or later.

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IceTV EPG Content / Re: Letterkenny

« on: October 01, 2020, 11:44:44 AM »

Thanks Gai. Didnt realise they were adding the names to their website but not the feed to you. Thats just plain lazy from them.

I don't know if it is laziness, ignorance or capriciousness, but SBS has quite a bit of form recently for creative rebadging of a number of shows. I've seen it and pointed it out with some of Tony Robinson's shows, a number of train journey shows, and Agatha Christie's Criminal Games. The latter was a renumbering of series and episodes that did not accord with previously published information.

I think I've made the point previously that this to me is unacceptable behaviour for a publicly funded broadcaster. One can only hope that someone, somewhere, is in a position to influence SBS to the extent that whoever is responsible is replaced by someone who understands the value of, and adheres to, consistency with publicly available metadata.

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IceTV EPG Content / Re: New shows

« on: September 03, 2020, 10:28:19 AM »

From a recent SBS Newsletter "Fargo season 4 will no longer premiere on Wednesday 22 April, due to the suspension of production during the COVID-19 pandemic. SBS will advise the program's premiere date in due course."

From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fargo_(season_4)

"The fourth season of Fargo, an American anthology black comedy–crime drama television series created by Noah Hawley, is set to premiere on September 27, 2020, on the basic cable network FX and will consist of 11 episodes...The season was originally scheduled to premiere on April 19, 2020, but this was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic."

I have seen no notification yet from SBS as to when it might eventually show up here.

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General Discussions / Re: Search Options

« on: August 07, 2020, 07:14:34 PM »

Yeah, just trying it now and it doesn't look like it woks properly at the moment.

I am waiting for the next version to go final before updating, its a major re-write which I am hoping will fix a lot of things.

Thanks Daniel.

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General Discussions / Re: Search Options

« on: August 07, 2020, 04:42:47 PM »

Hi raymondjpg,

On the search page if you click on the "Advanced Search" link it has the option to search for topics only.

If I check the "Search in topic subjects only" it still only lists hits where the keyword is in the topic subject line. I was looking for a search option that lists hits where the keyword is in the body of messages.

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General Discussions / Search Options

« on: August 07, 2020, 02:40:00 PM »

Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I only seem to be able to search in this forum for keywprds on topic subject lines. Is there any way to conduct a search on subject lines and/or topic contents?

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IceTV EPG Content / Re: New shows

« on: August 07, 2020, 02:34:26 PM »

From a recent SBS On Demand newsletter "Season 8 of Spiral is due to arrive later this year. We’ll keep you posted."

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IceTV EPG Content / Re: New shows

« on: July 31, 2020, 11:31:37 AM »

The ABC has started advertising Annabel Crabb's Further Back In Time for Dinner, which looks like a follow-on to the earlier Back In Time for Dinner. Will IceTV be treating them as seasons of the same show, or will Further Back In Time for Dinner be treated as a separate series (and need its own series recording)?

If we look at TheTVDB they list three series of Back In Time for Dinner, the UK original as "Back In Time for Dinner", and two others as "Back in Time for Dinner (AU)" and "Back In Time For Dinner (CA)". There is a UK follow up listed as "Further Back in Time for Dinner" so to be consistent it would appear that the latest Annabel Crabb offering might be listed as "Further Back in Time for Dinner (AU)".

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IceTV EPG Content / Re: MacGyver vs MacGyver (2016)

« on: July 31, 2020, 11:16:37 AM »

Just as an update on this one, we have changed the new series of 'McGyver' to 'McGyver (2016)' and we will look at doing this for new series that come up as well.

Thanks Daniel. That looks like it works across the Beyonwiz T/U/V series and TV Scheduler (which deploys the XMLTV stream).

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IceTV EPG Content / Re: MacGyver vs MacGyver (2016)

« on: July 31, 2020, 09:05:02 AM »

The difference is not apparent in TV Scheduler either. I did have a query about episode metadata for the Beyonwiz T/U/V series recently, and was advised that this is available from the IceTV web pages. For example, the episode 'Gx-1' is listed as "Series, 1987, United States, English, Action, Season 3 Episode 6". The episodes from the 2016 series are listed, for example, as "Series, United States, English, Action, Drama, Adventure, Season 4 Episode 4".

It would be nice to have the series and episode numbers visible in both the Beyonwiz and TV Scheduler application, but I do understand that there are limitations with what can be displayed with the fields available. Barring that, I agree that it would be a good idea to distinguish between the two MacGyver series by labelling the 2016 series as MacGyver (2016). I don't think this should present any difficulties with field mapping.

Indeed, it might be worthwhile IceTV following the practice of using the titles from the TheTVDB for all TV shows. TheTVDB is not the only source of TV show metadata around, but it looks to be one of the most comprehensive. For MacGyver, they do distinguish the two series as MacGyver and MacGyver (2016).

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IceTV EPG Content / Re: Tony Robinson's World By Rail - South America

« on: June 19, 2020, 02:20:25 PM »

If the recording is deleted via ftp then it is not transferred to trash; not sure if it is picked up by lost+found that is part of Linux, but I am doubtful. Just checked and lost+found is empty as I expected.

OK. I use OpenWebif to manage recordings, where deleted recordings are moved to the trash directory, which is accessible along with the movie directory.

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IceTV EPG Content / Re: Tony Robinson's World By Rail - South America

« on: June 19, 2020, 11:54:19 AM »

Thanks Alison. There is still the question of whether IceTV can provide both episode titles, and series #:episode # somewhere in the IceGuide or timers, but that is probably one for Daniel Hall.

Hi raymondjpg,

At the moment we don't have it displayed on the screen, or in the timer (it is in the EPG feed though). The series and episode number are available via the IceTV website in the TV Guide and on the My Week screen.

Thanks Daniel I see it there now in the My Week screen towards the bottom of the entry, along with quite a bit of other metadata, and while the information doesn't come across in the timer, it might be preferable to have series #:episode # somewhere nearer the episode title (if given) in My Week and the IceGuide. I'm conscious that it would not be desirable to put IceTV to any unnecessary work.

Regards.

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IceTV EPG Content / Re: Tony Robinson's World By Rail - South America

« on: June 19, 2020, 11:01:48 AM »

Thanks Alison. There is still the question of whether IceTV can provide both episode titles, and series #:episode # somewhere in the IceGuide or timers, but that is probably one for Daniel Hall.