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Reported Problem for Season 51
posted by mazalSTAFFMOD on December 5, 2023 at 5:53 AM
Item: Season 51
Language: en-US
Type of Problem: Incorrect_content
Extra Details: "Season 51" is both duplicate and has incorrect content. PBS is current only through Season 50, as shown on the Nova Schedule page: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/schedule/ and the Nova Episode Guide: https://www.pbs.org/show/nova/episodes/season/50/.
Most of the content (on TMDB) created for "Season 51," starting at "Episode 1," already exists on Season 50, beginning at Episode 11. 8 episodes are duplicated in sequential and correct order.
Episode 9, "When Whales Could Walk," January 31, 2024, however, seems like it's from a different PBS program — "Eons: When Whales Walked," Season 1, episode 17. https://www.pbs.org/show/eons/episodes/season/1/?page=2
I've scoured PBS and Google and found nothing pointing to an upcoming premiere episode about walking Whales and, in fact, nothing about Season 51 being announced. Upcoming rerun episodes are scheduled, but nothing new. What is the source of this content?
Season 51 should be deleted.
Reply by elizar
on December 5, 2023 at 4:39 PM
Episode 9 may be the start of Season 51 as per: https://www.tvinsider.com/1111710/pbs-tv-premiere-schedule-2024-all-creatures-great-and-small-call-the-midwife/ , and also https://schedule.wttw.com/series/54/NOVA/ but certainly the first 8 which are duplicates from the previous season should be deleted.
Reply by raze464
on December 5, 2023 at 4:50 PM
I removed episodes 1-8 but left "When Whales Could Walk" as S51E01 since I can't find an actual season/episode number for it and recent seasons have been mostly based on episodes released within the calendar year.
If "When Whales Could Walk" turns out to be S50E19, please submit a content report and it'll be fixed once a moderator sees the report.
Reply by mazal
on December 6, 2023 at 10:17 PM
Oh, interesting. I had tripped over that article but discarded it (too quickly, in hindsight), thinking it was about All Creatures Great and Small. Eons is a streaming-only, 10-minute-per-episode platform, so I can see that PBS would want to expand the topic into a full Nova episode. The article has several Nova entries, but I'll wait for more concrete sources before entering those data.
Will do. Your fix is quite fine for now. Thank you!