Any update on this issue?

@gonzooin wrote:

Item: Archer
Language: en-US
Type of Problem: Incorrect_content

Thanks for your report!

Any update on this issue?

This is just for your information: I can imagine how frustrating it is to wait for an issue to be solved! But we moderators have a lot of (other) stuff to do and often need time to look into complicated matters - besides our real life. So, please be more patient with us! We usually say that if your issue is older than 2 months, you can bump up the report and ask what the heck we're doing?

About the issue:

Extra Details: The first three episodes in season 3 named "Heart of Archness" are not really in season 3, they are part of a three-part episode aired three months before the season 3. TVDB and Trakt have set them as specials episodes.
Is this possible to fix them ?

I just read all the older issue reports regarding this show, and there are a few about this exact issue. One of my co-moderators, Elizabeth Jennings, wrote in January 2015:

"The history as I can piece together is that FX aired it as a special (that is to say that at air time, the website was showing them as specials). Subsequently, the website and other sources called them part of season 3. I'm in favor of naming them specials as that's what they were called when they were aired. But then the listing will be in conflict with most sources with the exception of TVDB. I believe the goal here is to capture information as the TV show aired instead of later revisions."

However, other users objected to this in the past, and user howardrabb even thanked us for "using the CORRECT order" in comparison to other websites.

You see, it's very complicated.

Solution:

And now we have 2019, and we should make a decision. I agree with Elizabeth Jennings, because that's our "new" rule in the Contribution Bible:

https://www.themoviedb.org/bible/tv/59f743289251416e71000037#59f7445c9251416e71000038

According to this, all 3 episodes should be definitely in the Specials. But what we also can do now -> create an episode group in which all 3 episodes belong to season 3. That wasn't possible in 2015 - and it serves the purpose, in my opinion.

I'm going to close all the other reports regarding this problem and ask the participants to look at this post here and share their opinion. Let's see what they think of this?

@janar Can you move the episodes? Or should I handle it?

@banana_girl wrote:

@janar Can you move the episodes? Or should I handle it?

I'm very sorry -> I'm so bad a following my old discussions and forget to finish so many of them ...

The 3 episodes were already created in the Specials, so I only moved all the relevant data from those in season 3 before I deleted them.

And I created an episode group for the other order here:

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/10283-archer/episode_group/5d3c708321621b0011eed975
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/10283-archer/edit?active_nav_item=episode_groups

I'm not sure about the title of the group - I can't think of anything else.

I think that's it.