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Episodes removed from title?

Come Dine With Me, Season 16. There are several gaps.

Now, it's possible I hadn't added them, but I made an Excel spreadsheet for this purpose (#Nerd) and there's nothing outstanding on it.

But looking at the season page, there are several gaps: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0820392/episodes/?season=16&ref_=ttep

Looking at episode listings elsewhere to see what's missing, there should be the following:

16.25-16.29 = episodes set in Glasgow.

16.36 = All in One: Shropshire

16.60 = All in One: Vale of Glamorgan

16.78 = All in One: Wrexham

It's POSSIBLE I forgot to add them and didn't list them on my spreadsheet, but it seems unlikely?

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Hi MovieCat-

Thank you for posting the link! I have further review this series and there is no record of these missing episodes being added to this title, therefore, there is also no deleted record. 

You are welcome to add them throught the contribution form.  

Cheers!

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@Maya​ In that case, sorry for wasting your time, Maya. So much for my Excel spreadsheet!

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@MovieCat​ - All good, no problem!

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@Maya​ Actually, it turns out those episodes ARE there, but under season 8.

I'm not sure if I was moving them around or someone else was... I guess I'll figure it out.

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@MovieCat​ By the looks of things, it's all been put in a mess. 2009 episodes following 2006 ones, followed by 2008.

Maybe it was like that when I first started sorting out the title and I'd meant to fix it all? But I don't recall there being anything left to sort out. It's a mess now.

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@Maya​ Is someone making changes to the episode numbers right now, would you know? For example, this one: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1717281

I renumbered it (to 14-something) this week and now it's back under S8 again. Note that the dates of S8 are all over the place, with 2010 episodes next to 2009 ones and so on.

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@MovieCat​ - I have taken a look at the title and I can see there was a change from the renumbered you had previously submitted. 

I have corrected this now and I have taken further actions on the contributor. 

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@Maya​ So strange.

The only reason why I could imagine someone is messing around with it - and putting all the episodes out of order as a result - is at that time it used to be on a couple of times a day in different "strands" and some sites list them as separate "seasons".

So you might have a regular episode at 4pm, then a celebrity special at 7pm that same evening. Some sites will list them as two separate "seasons", but it's still the same programme, and they have to follow one another as they aired on the same day, or the same week.

This explains why I didn't have anything left on my spreadsheet to do, and yet they were messed up.

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@Maya​ It's actually getting slightly strange how this stuff is getting edited now.

2 hours ago I added this trivia, spoiler-tagged, to an episode: "Abby is given 26 points by her fellow diners, meaning all five of the contestants tied and shared the £1000 prize equally."

Someone has added onto it: "Abby is awarded 26 points, meaning that all five contestants scored the same and were joint winners for the week.This highly unusual outcome caused much confusion for Celena, who couldn't understand how there wasn't an outright winner."

That's a decent enough addition, to be fair. (Actually no it's not, they changed my wording, which I used as a signature format for this show, and so doesn't fit with the previous episodes.)

But it's just a little weird, almost creepy, how that was added less than two hours after I'd submitted it.

This isn't a brand new edition of the series that would expect to have lots of updates... it's from 2019, had never been added to, and is one of the episodes that doesn't even exist on the C4 website for streaming.

With 2100+ episodes, how would they even KNOW I'd been adding to it?

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@MovieCat​ No, it was possibly already there and I'd gone edit paranoid.

It's messed me up that I'm nearing the end of a multi-month mission to add the varying production companies to each episode (2100+) and now I'm on the verge of completion I find someone's moved all the episodes around.

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@Maya​ I don't know who's messed this up.

Just as a glance at season 5, looking down the dates for each episode shows that they've been put into a completely different order, with episodes in April following episodes in May, etc.: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0820392/episodes/?season=5&ref_=ttep

I'll get onto to tidying it up.