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J.K. Rowling - anyone else not get it where they live?


I have this show set to series-record on our DVR and the ep with J.K. Rowling, though advertised the previous week, did not record. I'd chalk it up to some mystery fail on the part of Comcast but when I looked for it On Demand it wasn't there either, with the Ginnifer Goodwin ep listed as #1 and the Alfre Woodard ep listed as #2. The Rowling ep is listed on On Demand but with no air date as of the last time I looked, which was a couple days ago.

I live in the Pacific Northwest. Did anyone else have this happen where they live? I was really looking forward to Rowling's episode and have no idea why we didn't get it. Nothing else recorded in its place but clearly from reading posts here other people did see it as originally scheduled. There's no note on TLC's website nor on the show's about any glitch or rescheduling for this.

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I haven't seen the ep, but I did wonder if it was from the UK show.  I don't know why the US show would go to the trouble of filming her again when they can just use the UK episode.

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I found it in four parts on YouTube.

Who Do You Think You Are? | J. K. Rowling - Parte 1/4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgUoNEdrCkU
Who Do You Think You Are? | J. K. Rowling - Parte 2/4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krmMxFTSGUY
Who Do You Think You Are? | J. K. Rowling - Parte 3/4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0LAce6KcEY
Who Do You Think You Are? | J. K. Rowling - Parte 4/4:
*** Couldn't find ***

I didn't click on them. It could be set up so that you can't view them if you're not in the UK? Or US ... depending on who posted it. 

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Who+Do+You+Think+You+Are+J.K.+Rowling

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#newwindow=1&q=Who+Do+You+Think+You+Are+J.K.+Rowling






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I was able to see it on demand the day after it was supposed to air. Must be a Comcast thing where you live cause it definitely aired here.

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Since I posted I've traveled to another part of the state and found this episode On Demand, listed right after Ginnifer Goodwin's episode as the second of this season like it was supposed to be. The only difference is that I found it on Charter Cable and at home we're on Comcast, so I have to agree with you and point the finger at Comcast.

And to reply to the earlier poster, the American show wasn't a do-over. They just imported the UK episode. They did it inthe first season with the UK episode about Kim Cattrall. Did we here in the US get to see all of it? I have no idea, may have to watch it on YouTube to compare some rainy afternoon when the mood strikes. I've actually started watching the original episodes from Britain online and enjoyed them. Thanks to everyone who responded to this topic.

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It aired on Directv as the 2nd episode after the Ginnifer Goodwin episode.

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The full version (unedited UK version) has been on YouTube a few years. Watch that one. They cut a lot out of the US version and I was quite disappointed with the abrupt ending.

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I saw it on AT&T U-Verse. I have watched earlier UK versions on you tube. The Kim Cattrell US version had a different ending than the UK version. The US version ends with her sitting down with her mother and aunts discussing what was found. In that one Kim seems bitter towards her grandfather who abandoned his family twice. Considering what they went through, I don't blame her.

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I saw it last night on TLC and it is on demand Comcast. The family lived in several places. One town was on the border with Germany and was taken over by the Germans. Don't remember the name.


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J K Rowling's ancestor came from Alsace-Lorraine. This area is half German and half French with many families intermarried. Its traded sides several times over the centuries depending on who won the last war. They concentrated on the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870's when the Germans took it back until WWI when they lost it again. Her family had a German name and given a choice in that war chose French citizenship but had to leave. So her ancestor and an aunt moved to Paris.

It makes you think the families had both German and French flags in a trunk and waved which ever would make the current army marching through happy.




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kinglet,

I have no idea why you did not get it. I am in California and it did air. btw, where do you live? I am originally from eastern Washington.

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I live in Oregon and it still has never aired here. 12 days after I emailed Comcast I got a one-line reply to the effect that "we'll look into it". Nothing since then and no additional referral contacts included in the reply. So far nothing at all from TLC. This ep still has never appeared in the On Demand lineup for this show where I live.

Makes me wonder if Comcast drops other programming and all subscribers are potentially missing episodes of this or that. I'm going to visit the office and talk about some kind of credit on my bill. We recently realized we'd lost two shows from our DVR queue as well, and can only suspect it also has to do with Comcast. Our system allows us to see Recently Deleted shows so we can tell what's been deleted and these shows aren't in it. Possibly this is because we're being used as guinea pigs.

According to Comcast techs a couple years ago (when we got our present equipment) our market is considered one of their test markets. We have cable boxes (3rd generation of those now in just two years) and remotes and services that other Comcast customers I know outside of our area don't have. In fact my mother, a tech holdout, just got a letter from Comcast ordering her to bring in her old cable box and exchange it for a new one, thus putting maintenance responsibility on the customer.

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I live in the Bay Area and it never aired here. I even searched for it through on demand (Comcast). I wonder why it was shown in the listings and then removed?

I was really looking forward to viewing this episode.



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It is the same episode as the British version, so you can find it on Youtube

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