What's going on with Cinema channels today?

[TobiasG]

Seems most of the cinema channels are showing different films from what's listed.

[Joannelanceley]

My movie channels are not showing the correct content there is another film playing to what is advertised 

[karl+mufc]

Movie channels not showing what's advertised.

Jack reacher is the magnificent seven,the hangover 2 is singing in the rain.

anyone else having this problem?

[GD1]

This issue has been raosed to Sky in the closed forum.

[TobiasG]

It's deliberate as I caught the start of one film where the continuity announcement was along the lines of "the following film has been changed from the advertised..."

[KevNewMedia · Accepted solution]

Hi Everyone

Thank you for highlighting this problem and thank you for tagging us @caesarome and @GD1 

Can I ask what platform you are seeing this issue on? ie Sky+/Sky Q/Sky Glass or Stream/Sky Go

I'm going to mark this post as the current answer, so that everyone has the most up-to-date information.

[TobiasG]

I'm on Sky Q.  As I said above, this is clearly a deliberate action by Sky rather than some kind of error as the continuity announcement said the film had been changed.

[xenon81]

Due to a possible issue with PIN protection caused by the Viewing Card issue that many viewers have reported, the daytime showings of PIN-protected 12/15/18 rated movies have been temporarily suspended. 

[Manestream]

I am on sky Q, and almost every sky movie channel, sky atlantic, sky max and many other channels are no longer showing whats advertised, showing teh same program back to back or just plain out just showing teh same 3 or 4 adverts.

I dont know whats going on with sky right now but they sure as hell have dropped a massive clanger here.

Not to mention channels that are showing teh right program are droppign to a blue screen askign you to check your viewing card (done that same problem so came here to see what was happening and if it was just me). Apparently it isnt.

So whats actually going on with sky??

[xenon81]

If the channel is due to be showing a PIN protected programme or film then something else will be showing instead until the viewing card issue is resolved.

[MikeC1]

Trying to watch film channel Sky Thriller but a mad Chinese film on, the bike riders should be on .

I think other channels effected.

Iv had other problems today 

[TimmyBGood]

As @xenon81 indicates, if there's a problem with the operation of the Mandatory Daytime Protection PIN then no channel is going to risk the really serious financial penalties inevitably inflicted by Ofcom for transmitting post-watershed content before 21:00 without it (not to mention the potential real world effect of having, say, Sky Atlantic carrying its usual mayhem and carnage at school hometime without any access control)

[MightyQuinn]

Hi @MikeC1   Yes, Sky are aware.

[Maguire79]

Trying to watch the Halloween channel and its switched over to animated movies I was watching the ring and it just went to adverts and some random film came back on

[TimmyBGood]

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@Maguire79 wrote:

I was watching the ring and it just went to adverts and some random film came back on

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Yes, because that's the kind of content which is only legal to broadcast before 20:30 on a subscription fim channel if Mandatory Daytime Protection is applied.