@Kevjs wrote:
No, I don't think you are a Moron. The very act of loading a programme and fast forwarding to the end makes any streaming service think you are watching it (indeed it's something I've done on Prime Video & Netflix to mark shows as watched - they also appear in Netflix's Continue Watching bar if you do that as I'd expect). It's little surprise that by watching even part of it every day keeps, a show which is broadcast every day keeps returning to the play now rail. Hardly surprising everyone doing this to empty the Play Now Rail sees it reappear when the next episode is broadcast, but they assume a bit of tempoary respite as it vanishes because they've fully caught up and therefore it has no reason to be in the Play Now Rail.
Undoubtly there are bugs where some shows don't vanish either - e.g. Around the world In 80 days not disappearing from my Play Now rail when I finished, but ignoring it meant it slowly drifted towards the end of my Play Now Rail and finally vanished this week; Shetland (which was added by the iPlayer autoplaying after watching a different show!) was also stuck on my Play Now for a while, and jumped to the front as new episodes broadcast. But by ignoring it, and watching other stuff on demand it finally vanished as you'd expect for the current design.
From what you have described (particularly in the post full of pictures which showed an otherwise empty playlist) there might be a bug where nothing in your playlist means the Play Now Rail items appear where your playlist should be, if your playlist is empty and therefore Lingo isn't actually in your playlist but just looks like it is.
Simple question - if you add a show you actually want to watch to your playlist does Lingo disappear from the TV Shows row of the Playlist View All, while still being shown underneath in the Play Now rail? If so that goes some way towards confiring that hypothesis. If not you may be very unlucky and have hit the exact same issue I have where one show (Inside Chrnobyl with Ben Fogel) on my Playlist can't be removed either - if you add it it moves to the front of the playlist, and when you remove it drops towards where it was originally added. All other shows vanish. By ignoring it it meant it eventually fell off the Play Now rail. Looks like you have to watch (on demand)/add 20 other series to your playlist to finally push something off the end of the play now rail.
Based on the screenshots you've provided you are either watching nothing, or only programmes as they are shown on TV Channels (without using watch from start), or possibly watching only Films to the end; but not any on demand TV (Except perhaps for Disney+ which never seems to show on the Play Now Rail). which is a little unusual for the way Sky Glass has been designed and could go some way to explaining why your experience is at odds to everyone elses.
We've no control of the Play Now rail, and all we can hope for is that Sky mimic Netflix, Prime, and All 4 which allow you to remove stuff from it - and that the other glitches with it are also resolved.
Excellent answer. I genuinely think people don't understand the difference between the Play Now rail and the Play List. I suppose it doesn't help that Sky call the Play Now rail the Play List on the Home Screen. However, if you go into it, you can see the Play Now rail separately and the Play List things that the user has personally added on separate rows for TV Shows, Movies and Sport.
The chap who has Lingo and 'interferes' with it every day is simply telling the TV they want to keep watching it. I bet Lingo isn't in his actual Play List.
People need to calm down about the Play Now rail. You CAN'T remove things from it. If you don't watch something on it, it will eventually drop off!
Unable to remove item from playlist
