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The ACT IceGuide is showing:
Call The Midwife 'Christmas Special 2018 (2)', 7TWO on Prime, 7:30pm, Tue, 30 Dec
as a first run. Surely this is a repeat?

Vienna Blood 'A Winning Hand', SBS HD, 11:20pm, Thu, 25 Dec 2025, 55 minutes (S4E2)

Seems to be the wrong episode title (iMDB would have it as Mephisto Waltz Part 2, though "Winning Hand" might actually fit the story), and the wrong synopsis (the IceTV synopsis doesn't match either SBS's or IMDb's).

Grimm, 'Let Down Your Hair' 7flix on Prime, 12:30am, Wed, 26 Nov

This is S1E7, so surely it's a repeat, since all seasons of Grimm, including the "last ever" season 6, have shown on Australian FTA?

The synopsis in the ACT IceGuide for Blue Lights S3E5 Ordo Ab Chao seems to be the synopsis for the previous episode, S3E4 The Parting Glass.

I got the "What's on This Week" email overnight, but in my IceTV iPhone app, Recommended is empty. I've tried forcing an updats and resetting the app data, but neither helped.

ACT region.

The Larkins, 'Pop in Prison', ABC TV HD, 3:02pm, Sat, 4 Oct

I think this is a repeat.

Riviera 'Villa Carmella' S1E1, Prime7 HD, 12:30am, Sun, 31 Aug

This is marked as first run, but I'm pretty sure it's a repeat.

Cheese Slices 'Comte' SBS Food, 11:00pm, Tue, 22 Jul S2E1

Isn't this a repeat?

Line Of Duty 'A Disastrous Affair' 7TWO on Prime, 8:30pm, Thu, 19 Jun, Season 1 Episode 1
Line Of Duty 'The Assault' 7TWO on Prime, 9:50pm, Thu, 19 Jun, Season 1 Episode 2

They're both marked as first run, but I'm pretty sure they're repeats.

The Act 'Free', Prime7 HD, 12:50am, Wed, 28 May 2025

Is a repeat but is marked as first run in the IceTV EPG for the ACT.

The topic that aeb001 started and the I made some posts in seems to have disappeared.

On my issue, that the ABC programs that I've been recording have had their synopsis as a generic series or season text rather than an episode synopsis has improved somewhat.

Boat Story and Unforgotten recorded last night (20 Apr with correct episode synopses (they had previously been recording with generic synopses).

However, while Darby and Joan (Thu 24 Apr) has a specific episode synopsis, Hard Quiz and The Weekly with Charlie Pickering (Wed 23 Apr), Restoration Australia (Thu 24 Apr), Sherwood (Fri 25 Apr), Father Brown (Sat 26 Apr) and Vera (Sat 26 Apr and Sun 27 Apr) do not.

Note that while the ABC's EPG synopsis for The Weekly with Charlie Pickering doesn't change from week to week, IceTV's is different, so it's not being taken from the ABC feed as I'd expect that it would.

Snow (original title Schnee) was being broadcast at 11:30pm on Tuesdays on the SBS ONE (& ONE HD), but seems to have been replaced by two episodes of Great Coastal Railway Journeys in that time slot. They've only shown 3 of 6 episodes in the season.

In New Series:

Bergerac

The iconic Jersey-set detective series returns. When a member of one of Jersey's wealthiest families is murdered the police want their best detective on the case.

John Nettles

ACT Region.

Is the upcoming series really the 1981-1991 series of Bergerac starring John Nettles (rather younger than those familiar with him as the first Inspector Barnaby in Midsomer Murders), or is it the recent 2025 continuation?/remake? of the series, starring Damien Molony?

This one: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081831/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_2
or this one: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9800658/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1 ?

From what's in IMDb, the IceTV synopsis certainly suggests that it's the new series.

Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse, 'Series 1, Episode 3', 9Gem, 10:40pm, Tue, 15 Apr

ACT region.

I think this is a repeat, but it's not marked as one - I already had an IceTV first runs only recording set on the series, and neither of the first two episodes recorded.

It looks like it expired on 2 April at 23:59:59 GMT. This doesn't seem to have affected the IceTV home page and account pages.

Edit: fixed incorrect month.

Homeland, 'A Red Wheel Barrow', SBS VICELAND HD, 11:30pm (S3E8) is a repeat, but is listed as first run in the IceGuide. S3E7 and S3E9, which are also being shown this week, are correctly marked as repeats.

ACT region.

There are three showings of Rick Stein And The Japanese Ambassador listed on the IceTV guide, on SBS Food at 5:30pm, Sun, 19 Jan, 2:30am, Mon, 20 Jan and 7:30am, Mon, 20 Jan.

They are all marked as new shows and as part of a series, but I'm pretty sure that the show has aired before (we already had an IceTV first runs only recording set for it from when it showed previously), and according to IMDb, it's a 1-hour telemovie, not a series.

The SBS online EPG is no help, because it doesn't mark things as series or as repeats any more.

Call The Midwife 'Series 5, Episode 10' 7TWO on Prime, 7:30pm, Tue, 14 Jan

Surely this is a repeat? The last season of Call The Midwife that was shown on the ABC was season 12.

I got the IceTV What's On This Weekend early this morning, but there doesn't seem to be anything for the weekend in Recommended in my iOS app. ACT Guide.

Any ideas?

The IceTV guide says that it's Season 3 Episode 2, but doesn't mark it as a series. It's also in "What's on This Week", which is a bit odd if it's actually the second episode in the season.

The "new look" SBS online guide no longer gives any idea of the season/episode numbers, or even if it's a series, and doesn't flag repeats.

IMDb says that The Body on Somerton Beach is S3E4 (not S4E2) of History's Greatest Mysteries, so it looks like another instance of SBS renaming stuff at will.

The synopses for the program in What's on this Week and in the IceTV guide seem to hint that Somerton Beach is near a nuclear test site. Which one? Maralinga is 800km from Adelaide.