@TomSouthwell wrote:
But f.e. when the queen fell ill and then died me and @TonyMayhew painstakingly kept everything up to date. That wasn't announced?
The fact is, historical data is already wrong. I'm sure US shows were interrupted when Kennedy and Reagan were shot, when Challenger and Columbia exploded. 9/11 skewered everything for days. None of that is noted in our stuff for the shows airing at the time. All we list are the basic episode information and the air dates. And for what I suspect a lot of people use the site for, that's okay. People aren't going to care that XYZ show was preempted for thirty minutes in 1982 for whatever reason. Likewise, people next month aren't really going to care that Survivor and The Masked Singer were interrupted for 20 minutes.
That's my point. Are we worried about a schedule in the moment, or are we more interested in the listings for future uses (private servers for example).
If the concern is the schedule in the moment, then I think there's going to have to be some major reworking of the software to accommodate these things. Splitting a show and adding extra episode numbers (which is wrong per the networks) isn't the answer. If the concern is capturing data for historical reference, then the note feature solves this. Make a note that the episode was preempted for X amount of time for Y reason, and we're done.
