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Reported Problem for Season 3
posted by eaghraSTAFFMOD on July 10, 2018 at 5:17 PM
Item: Season 3
Language: en
Type of Problem: Incorrect_content
Extra Details: This site just went full on stupid in the vein of thetvdb.com, and split every episode of pbskids shows, Daniel Tiger in particular, into two distinct episodes. This is so incorrect, and it just was changed en-masse in the last month by Banana. This needs to stop. Nowhere are there individual showings of episodes like this and even if you view official press releases they are labeled as the same episode number, not unique entries. Go to pbskids.org and see that the labels of "full episode" are indeed two titles. Every content manager that scrapes data from here is now screwed up. Revert it back to the way it was in May 2018 and allow for new episodes to be posted as single episodes that have two titles per show.
Reply by Banana
on July 10, 2018 at 8:23 PM
I'm sorry, but this simply isn't true. For examples, please see TFO or the DVD releases.
But, most importantly, segments should be split as stated in the Bible.
Reply by eaghra
on July 10, 2018 at 9:31 PM
No, this show plays OTA on tv 4 times a day as a half hour episode with two titles sharing a theme per episode. You can stream the entire network live online and when it airs it's one 30 minute episode. You can find current episodes called "full episode" on pbskids.org as 25 minutes long containing the two title theme. Four new episodes are airing this week, including the start of season 4 tomorrow. So you're creating 8 new episodes for those, while only 4 originally aired? Did a dvd of a quarter season just get simultaneously released trumping the current airing schedule? The bible you link says "we prefer". Well, there's a ton of volunteer users out there who helped populate this because we have 30 minute shows either recorded from tv or ripped and we really prefer to not have our libraries constantly being changed and screwed up because someone goes power crazy and erases everything from a kids show so they have 40-some episodes per season when there were only 20 aired to match some rare dvd they ripped. tvdb did this and there was a revolt over it. People left and chose here instead. It's a currently running OTA tv show first before it's a dvd. You just undid in the last month a season that just aired it's last episode TODAY (7/10). There are dvrs out there right now, such as plex, that are getting bogus data.... again because some mod insists on non existent dvd listings over currently running broadcast definitions. This is wrong.
So to quote your own bible "For newer series, we try to mirror how the episodes were first released on the original network's website. When different, the data on the official website usually trumps press releases and TV listing info." Well, here you go: http://www.pbs.org/parents/daniel/episodes/. Nowhere in there is a split episode. PBS doesn't split them because the whole half hour is a theme and the episode is a whole. All of their shows work that way.