AWKWAFINA IS NORA FROM QUEENS - How do we do this?

To clarify, the relevant portions from the episodes data policy are:

"Rewriting history after an episode has premiered is never accepted. For example, if a show's official website indicates that a certain episode belongs to season 1, but changes it to season 2 a year afterwards, it should remain listed as season 1."

"Airdate: The date this episode premiered (was first made available)."

As I'd previously said on the edit requests thread, the ideal situation here would be to have alternate lists, however as the current implementation only covers DVD releases, there's no appropriate way to do it using it.

I can understand listing it each way - personally I'd prefer it to be according to the policy - but I admit that it probably wouldn't be useful for our users.

CC made an absolutely idiotic decision with this "sneak peek" bs. Who in their right mind airs episode 6 before episode 1?

My vote is to make an exception and list episodes in their natural order, with explanation in wiki and link to this thread.

Nothing could be written in stone in world of serialized television. You can't predict every possible way the networks could screw with us )))

Was the sneak peak only online on Jan 20th or did it actually air on TV as well? On TV, they had episode 5 on Feb 19th and episode 7 on March 4th, and during that week off, they showed episode 6.

Since they aired it on TV in the correct order, even if it was a rerun, it makes more sense to have it in that order since it's not like this is a common occurance.

It's too bad the listings couldn't accept an "out of order" set of dates to show E06 aired early ... even if that level of access was limited to Heads+ since it should not be a regulr occurrence.

Just going outside the box, could you list E06 as a special (with applicable notes)  since it was sorta a special "sneak peak" and not a Tremors or Firefly scenario?

@kevin87 wrote:
Was the sneak peak only online on Jan 20th or did it actually air on TV as well?

I remember checking CC's schedule, and it was meant to be broadcasted. If it was only released online we won't be having a problem, because we'd just followed broadcast airdates (winning source by policy).

Episode titled Vagarina aired on Comedy Central on January 20th and was the series premiere. It aired during it's normal time slot not just online.

The Pilot makes sense to be first in the series plot wise. But this show isn't the kind of show you need to watch in order. And if you wanted to see the Pilot first you could watch it first if you really wanted to. It's called Pilot.

My vote is to follow the policy on this one and put it listed as first and airing on January 20th (which it in fact did.)

@dpratt wrote:
Episode titled Vagarina aired on Comedy Central on January 20th and was the series premiere. It aired during it's normal time slot not just online.

The Pilot makes sense to be first in the series plot wise. But this show isn't the kind of show you need to watch in order. And if you wanted to see the Pilot first you could watch it first if you really wanted to. It's called Pilot.

My vote is to follow the policy on this one and put it listed as first and airing on January 20th (which it in fact did.)

If it was a "sneak peak" though, that's not the same wording as a series premiere. It would technically be outside the normal season like a special based on the wording. And for online, since it was already online they couldn't add it again, plus it says episodes 6 on there anyway.

I totally get that the episode is considered episode 6 by the network. But TVmaze's policy is pretty clear that it is episode 1 because it was the first to air.

TheTVDB's policy is the same as ours as far as that goes.