The Coroner series 2 Episode 8 not available

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Dave,

> Has anyone any idea why Episode 8 of the latest series of The Coroner
> is not available? it isn't available on bbc iplayer either?

The published data for that programme went very wrong.  This is what my
tv.cache saw over time recently.

    $ grep -h The.Coroner ~/.get_iplayer/tv.cache* |
    > gawk -F\| '{print sprintf("s%de%02d", $8, $9), $5, $4, strftime("%Y-%m-%d %T", $16), $3, $7}' |
    > sort -u | sed 's/T/ /; s/:00+00:00//'
    s1e01 2018-02-12 15:00 b06q54pd 2018-02-05 11:34:54 The Coroner: Series 1 First Love
    s1e01 2018-02-12 15:00 b06q54pd 2018-03-08 09:14:57 The Coroner: Series 1 First Love
    s1e02 2018-02-13 15:00 b06q553j 2018-02-05 11:34:54 The Coroner: Series 1 How to Catch a Lobster
    s1e03 2018-02-14 15:00 b06q588j 2018-02-05 11:34:54 The Coroner: Series 1 That's the Way To Do It
    s1e04 2018-02-15 15:00 b06q5c8m 2018-02-06 11:24:56 The Coroner: Series 1 The Fisherman's Tale
    s1e05 2018-02-16 15:00 b06q5rq3 2018-02-06 11:24:56 The Coroner: Series 1 Gilt
    s1e06 2018-02-19 15:00 b06qjdck 2018-02-12 07:30:53 The Coroner: Series 1 Capsized
    s1e07 2018-02-20 15:00 b06qjfq0 2018-02-12 07:30:53 The Coroner: Series 1 The Salcombe Selkie
    s1e08 2018-02-21 15:00 b06qjjlh 2018-02-12 07:30:53 The Coroner: Series 1 Napoleon's Violin
    s1e09 2018-02-22 15:00 b06qjkc0 2018-02-12 07:30:53 The Coroner: Series 1 The Deep Freeze
    s1e10 2018-02-23 15:00 b06qjl6j 2018-02-12 07:30:53 The Coroner: Series 1 Dirty Dancing
    s2e01 2018-02-13 15:00 b0840227 2018-02-13 12:34:30 The Coroner: Series 2 The Drop Zone
    s2e02 2018-02-14 15:00 b084022y 2018-02-14 08:47:52 The Coroner: Series 2 Perfectly Formed
    s2e03 2018-02-15 15:00 b084024r 2018-02-14 08:47:52 The Coroner: Series 2 Those in Peril
    s2e04 2018-02-16 15:00 b084025z 2018-02-14 08:47:52 The Coroner: Series 2 The Beast of Lighthaven
    s2e05 2018-02-19 15:00 b0840277 2018-02-14 08:47:52 The Coroner: Series 2 The Captain's Pipe
    s2e06 2018-02-20 15:00 b084dxth 2018-02-14 08:47:52 The Coroner: Series 2 Life
    s2e07 2018-02-21 15:00 b084dzjy 2018-02-14 08:47:52 The Coroner: Series 2 Perfect Pair
    s2e09 2018-02-22 15:00 b084f1zy 2018-02-14 08:47:52 The Coroner: Series 2 Pieces of Eight
    s2e10 2018-02-23 15:00 b084f3nk 2018-02-14 08:47:52 The Coroner: Series 2 Crash
    $

The first date-time is when it was to be broadcast;  always 3pm.  The
second is when that entry was added to tv.cache.  s1e01 did actually
broadcast, but then all of the rest of s1 didn't.  Not good if you only
invested time watching it on the basis of watching the series that was
already scheduled.  (iPlayer support reference CAS-4806288-B3HT3L.)
s2e08 is missing from that list;  they never scheduled it in this run of
repeats.

Ordering that list by scheduled broadcast time, and eliding duplicate
dates, gives

    s1e01 2018-02-12 15:00 b06q54pd 2018-02-05 11:34:54 The Coroner: Series 1 First Love
    s1e01      ""          b06q54pd 2018-03-08 09:14:57 The Coroner: Series 1 First Love
    s1e02 2018-02-13 15:00 b06q553j 2018-02-05 11:34:54 The Coroner: Series 1 How to Catch a Lobster
    s2e01      ""          b0840227 2018-02-13 12:34:30 The Coroner: Series 2 The Drop Zone
    s1e03 2018-02-14 15:00 b06q588j 2018-02-05 11:34:54 The Coroner: Series 1 That's the Way To Do It
    s2e02      ""          b084022y 2018-02-14 08:47:52 The Coroner: Series 2 Perfectly Formed
    s1e04 2018-02-15 15:00 b06q5c8m 2018-02-06 11:24:56 The Coroner: Series 1 The Fisherman's Tale
    s2e03      ""          b084024r 2018-02-14 08:47:52 The Coroner: Series 2 Those in Peril
    s1e05 2018-02-16 15:00 b06q5rq3 2018-02-06 11:24:56 The Coroner: Series 1 Gilt
    s2e04      ""          b084025z 2018-02-14 08:47:52 The Coroner: Series 2 The Beast of Lighthaven
    s1e06 2018-02-19 15:00 b06qjdck 2018-02-12 07:30:53 The Coroner: Series 1 Capsized
    s2e05      ""          b0840277 2018-02-14 08:47:52 The Coroner: Series 2 The Captain's Pipe
    s1e07 2018-02-20 15:00 b06qjfq0 2018-02-12 07:30:53 The Coroner: Series 1 The Salcombe Selkie
    s2e06      ""          b084dxth 2018-02-14 08:47:52 The Coroner: Series 2 Life
    s1e08 2018-02-21 15:00 b06qjjlh 2018-02-12 07:30:53 The Coroner: Series 1 Napoleon's Violin
    s2e07      ""          b084dzjy 2018-02-14 08:47:52 The Coroner: Series 2 Perfect Pair
    s1e09 2018-02-22 15:00 b06qjkc0 2018-02-12 07:30:53 The Coroner: Series 1 The Deep Freeze
    s2e09      ""          b084f1zy 2018-02-14 08:47:52 The Coroner: Series 2 Pieces of Eight
    s1e10 2018-02-23 15:00 b06qjl6j 2018-02-12 07:30:53 The Coroner: Series 1 Dirty Dancing
    s2e10      ""          b084f3nk 2018-02-14 08:47:52 The Coroner: Series 2 Crash

These were all `BBC One'.  So it looks like they scheduled and broadcast
s1e01 by mistake, and then switched to s2e01, replacing s1e02, and so
one for the remaining nine slots.  But that meant something had to go
and that was s2e08.

One more ordering, by the date-time it was added to tv.cache, split by
series.

    s1e01 2018-02-12 15:00 b06q54pd 2018-02-05 11:34:54 The Coroner: Series 1 First Love
    s1e02 2018-02-13 15:00 b06q553j      ""             The Coroner: Series 1 How to Catch a Lobster
    s1e03 2018-02-14 15:00 b06q588j      ""             The Coroner: Series 1 That's the Way To Do It
    s1e04 2018-02-15 15:00 b06q5c8m 2018-02-06 11:24:56 The Coroner: Series 1 The Fisherman's Tale
    s1e05 2018-02-16 15:00 b06q5rq3      ""             The Coroner: Series 1 Gilt
    s1e06 2018-02-19 15:00 b06qjdck 2018-02-12 07:30:53 The Coroner: Series 1 Capsized
    s1e07 2018-02-20 15:00 b06qjfq0      ""             The Coroner: Series 1 The Salcombe Selkie
    s1e08 2018-02-21 15:00 b06qjjlh      ""             The Coroner: Series 1 Napoleon's Violin
    s1e09 2018-02-22 15:00 b06qjkc0      ""             The Coroner: Series 1 The Deep Freeze
    s1e10 2018-02-23 15:00 b06qjl6j      ""             The Coroner: Series 1 Dirty Dancing

    s2e01 2018-02-13 15:00 b0840227 2018-02-13 12:34:30 The Coroner: Series 2 The Drop Zone
    s2e02 2018-02-14 15:00 b084022y 2018-02-14 08:47:52 The Coroner: Series 2 Perfectly Formed
    s2e03 2018-02-15 15:00 b084024r      ""             The Coroner: Series 2 Those in Peril
    s2e04 2018-02-16 15:00 b084025z      ""             The Coroner: Series 2 The Beast of Lighthaven
    s2e05 2018-02-19 15:00 b0840277      ""             The Coroner: Series 2 The Captain's Pipe
    s2e06 2018-02-20 15:00 b084dxth      ""             The Coroner: Series 2 Life
    s2e07 2018-02-21 15:00 b084dzjy      ""             The Coroner: Series 2 Perfect Pair
    s2e09 2018-02-22 15:00 b084f1zy      ""             The Coroner: Series 2 Pieces of Eight
    s2e10 2018-02-23 15:00 b084f3nk      ""             The Coroner: Series 2 Crash

    s1e01 2018-02-12 15:00 b06q54pd 2018-03-08 09:14:57 The Coroner: Series 1 First Love

I tend to refresh tv.cache daily, so the added s2 around the time they
started to broadcast them instead of s1.

No wonder Andrew Neil is always complaining about the BBC schedulers!

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.
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