What are many networks but so often Discovery Channel Shows so hard to track seasons and episodes ?

@DPh2902 wrote:
Does anyone know why Discovery Channel and Streaming Services/Cable providers can't seem to maintain agreement one episodes numbers and even seasons at some points? A great current example is Expedition Unknown where there appears to be 2 Season 14 episode 1s Tragic Endings (Dec 4) and Hunt for Petra's Lost Tombs (Oct 9) and there is a episode called 4 that aired Oct 30  called Invisible Enemies that Discovery doesn't list on their site.  They call Episode 5 America's First Train Robbers which is episode 5 on almost every other reference. I guess it's no big deal but it's just annoying. Maybe the network is just incompetent  like som many other companies these days. Anyway, just curious if anyone had insight why things on many networks are just FUBAR lately. 

I think they are just fucking with us :) It has been a nightmare what they are doing all the time.

@DPh2902 wrote:
Does anyone know why Discovery Channel and Streaming Services/Cable providers can't seem to maintain agreement one episodes numbers and even seasons at some points? A great current example is Expedition Unknown where there appears to be 2 Season 14 episode 1s Tragic Endings (Dec 4) and Hunt for Petra's Lost Tombs (Oct 9) and there is a episode called 4 that aired Oct 30  called Invisible Enemies that Discovery doesn't list on their site.  They call Episode 5 America's First Train Robbers which is episode 5 on almost every other reference. I guess it's no big deal but it's just annoying. Maybe the network is just incompetent  like som many other companies these days. Anyway, just curious if anyone had insight why things on many networks are just FUBAR lately. 

Mostly because they're running their shows in a different chronological order in a variety of different countries, so there is not a real structure in it and everybody is always changing their running order to the country of their own across the internet making it very hard for us to get the true proper order in which it was suppose to be according to the production company :). Nat geo is one of them too that could make it hard for us.

@DPh2902 wrote:
Does anyone know why Discovery Channel and Streaming Services/Cable providers can't seem to maintain agreement one episodes numbers and even seasons at some points? A great current example is Expedition Unknown where there appears to be 2 Season 14 episode 1s Tragic Endings (Dec 4) and Hunt for Petra's Lost Tombs (Oct 9) and there is a episode called 4 that aired Oct 30  called Invisible Enemies that Discovery doesn't list on their site.  They call Episode 5 America's First Train Robbers which is episode 5 on almost every other reference. I guess it's no big deal but it's just annoying. Maybe the network is just incompetent  like som many other companies these days. Anyway, just curious if anyone had insight why things on many networks are just FUBAR lately. 

Because Discovery and Food Network regularly repackage existing episodes into new 'series' bundles. They will rename shows/episodes, and in some cases, they will recut episode segments into different segment orders/episodes, too. They are the main reason we have that "no rewriting history" rule. 

@WatchingTV wrote:
Mostly because they're running their shows in a different chronological order in a variety of different countries, so there is not a real structure in it and everybody is always changing their running order to the country of their own across the internet making it very hard for us to get the true proper order in which it was suppose to be according to the production company :). Nat geo is one of them too that could make it hard for us.

All the more reason that this site would be a lot more useful if it was more flexible with specific country variations. Personally I could care less when a show runs in the UK or Canada for example. I only care when it runs in the US.  Very quickly it becomes very unuseful trying to dictate who has the right answer. I know that is going to piss off people saying that and I don't mean to, but it's just the reality. 

@DPh2902 wrote:
All the more reason that this site would be a lot more useful if it was more flexible with specific country variations. Personally I could care less when a show runs in the UK or Canada for example. I only care when it runs in the US.  Very quickly it becomes very unuseful trying to dictate who has the right answer. I know that is going to piss off people saying that and I don't mean to, but it's just the reality. 

And that's exactly the reason why these shows are becoming a mess :). Not being harmful to you or anyone, but people only care to those lists they are having / watching in their own country, so people tend to edit their show according to their origins. Someone in the US may only be interested in their US listing, while someone in the UK prefers to have the UK listing. That's probably one of the hardest things to deal with when you are dealing with an international community, so yeah, I understand your opinion, though others may think different :).

We do have a possibility for alternating listings to adopt it to your country, though that requires someone to actually edit it accordingly.