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April 2

Why has my question been deleted?

Some hours ago I asked a question about (non)repeats on the Drama-Channel. Why has it been deleted? --79.194.93.105 (talk) 12:59, 2 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Have you contacted anyone who has anything to do with the TV show in question? --←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 15:23, 2 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No, I have not, being from Germany. I suspect some -in Britain well-known - cancelling because of some actor in an minor rôle being connected to "me-too" or something like that.--79.194.93.105 (talk) 20:22, 2 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There are dozens of reasons - most often revolving around rights fees for music - as well as others - why a specific episode can be removed from broadcast and/or dvd releases. Unless you can present evidence to support it your suspicion smacks of WP:ASPERSIONS and WP:POLEMIC. MarnetteD|Talk 20:37, 2 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Spersion? Polemic? The simple question, why a particular episode is never repeated?--2003:C1:971D:EF00:5091:5446:AF6A:14EE (talk) 16:08, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

One thing I notice about the episode(s) in question is that Dialogues of the Dead is in two parts, and each is an hour long. (The other episodes are all 1 hour 30 minutes.) This is likely to be inconvenient for TV scheduling. Cutting fifteen minutes from each part in order to show them back-to-back in 1 hour 30 minutes could be difficult. Finding two half-hour standalone drama shows, to pad out the schedule when the episodes are shown separately, might also be difficult. Something would have to be jiggled around, and the schedulers might consider that and think "how about just not showing them ...". Card Zero (talk) 21:05, 2 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your answer.--2003:C1:971D:EF00:5091:5446:AF6A:14EE (talk) 16:08, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In German we have https://www.fernsehserien.de/ which lists all (?) repeats of all (?) shows (in the past) and in the foreseeable future. Is there something similar in Britain?--2003:C1:971D:EF00:5091:5446:AF6A:14EE (talk) 16:08, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The "BBC programme index" site appears to do this, at least for your purposes, since Drama (British TV channel) is BBC‐owned. Evidently it was broadcast 19th Aug 2015, on Drama. (It says "first broadcast" but then goes on to list earlier broadcasts in 2002 and 2005 on BBC One.) None of the guest stars appear to be involved in any kind of imbroglio, and the plot sounds as benign and cosy as Agatha Christie, on the face of it.

Oh, this site doesn't provide future schedules, I'm sorry to say. This other site digiguide claims to do that, but also says that the episode isn't scheduled to be shown anywhere. (Which is unsurprising since it's probably only on that one channel anyway.) Card Zero (talk) 17:55, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you - I am a Subscriber of Digiguide, but I did not know the other site. Question is solved, as far as I'm concerned.--2003:C1:970F:A200:2B:B230:4EAA:1E95 (talk) 05:23, 4 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]