We wanted to have the schedules run midnight-midnight, but as I recall the networks wanted programmes starting in the early hours of the morning to be shown as part of the previous day's schedule, and we ended up with the compromise you see on the site: midnight to midnight plus 5 hours.
The machine readable representations (currently .xml, .json, .yaml) may change to midnight-midnight in the next few months as a side effect of other changes, but you can ignore the extra 5 hours by skipping anything where the start time is on a different date to the one you're interested in. You can only get the short synopsis through the schedule, but the medium and long synopsis values can be fetched from the RDF representations of the episode pages. If the "pid" of the episode is b00jbkkj, the RDF will be at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jbkkj.rdf and the three synopsis variations will be in <po:short_synopsis>, <po:medium_synopsis>, and <po:long_synopsis>. Unfortunately that means 1 request for a schedule, and N subsequent requests for each episode in that schedule, but the medium and long synopsis strings aren't intended for use in schedules, so they're unlikely to be added to the schedule data views. On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Paul Webster <[email protected]> wrote: > > > When What's On was summarily closed I posted some thoughts to the relevant > blog > http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/12/whats_on_is_off.html > ... none of which got a response. > So - I thought I'd try here hoping that a BBC person can help out. > > One was: > Problem with new pages compared to "What's On" ... the schedules overlap. > i.e. days start at midnight but continue until 3am > please make it midnight-midnight or start new day 05:00 > > > > As an example see: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/programmes/schedules/2009/04/03 > http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/programmes/schedules/2009/04/04 > > > and another was: > Another annoying difference when compared to "What's On" - only providing > 1-2 line synopsis. > If there a modifier available to the URL (e.g. reallyfulldetails) ? > > > Paul Webster > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
