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Re:Doctor Who goes back in time to beat TV pirates by goatforce5 on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @11:26AM (#4449044)
Years ago the ABC showed the BBC show Absolutely Fabulous, IIRC, the same day that it was shown in the UK, which allowed enough time for UK papers to get details on the shows and publish spoilers in their newspapers.

The ABC ended up being asked to delay transmission by a week to prevent spoilers getting to the larger UK audience.

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Re:Doctor Who goes back in time to beat TV pirates by pbhjpbhj on Thursday August 30, 2012 @07:05AM (#4453987)
Don't TV columnist get previews anyway or are all TV listings blurbs provided by the producers/distributors?
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Re:Doctor Who goes back in time to beat TV pirates by goatforce5 on Thursday August 30, 2012 @10:26AM (#4454774)
I guess they say things like "John reveals a shocking secret!" rather than "John's secret is he's an alien who owns the cheese shop!"
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