Deleting Episodes That Don't Exist

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Long story short, I need to delete 2 episodes from this page that don't exist in this series: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2276413/episodes?season=1&ref_=tt_eps_sn_1

The episodes are "Third Member" and "Maturity."

To add further explanation as to why this happened, there is a new show on IFC premiering this summer called "Garfunkel and Oates." There was also an HBO web series that came out 2 years ago called "Garfunkel and Oates" as well. Someone accidentally added episode titles from the new IFC series to the page for the HBO series.

I work for the production company who produced both these series, and I am in the process of trying to correct lots of information from our new show that was added to the old show page. This seems to be the only issue I can't solve without help though!

In case it matters, this is the page for the IFC series where those two episodes should be located in: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3484566/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Scott: It is possible to transfer episodes from one series to another.

I am not sure which series is which on IMDb, though. "Garfunkel and Oates" (2014/I) at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3484566/ and "Garfunkel and Oates" (2014/II) at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2276413/ are both listed as being 2014 series (as opposed to the HBO series which was from two years ago). And both of them list IFC as their distributor on the respective company credits page (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3484566/companycredits and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2276413/companycredits).

It seems to me that both of the series linked above are the IFC series that comes out in August, and they need to be merged with each other, while I can't find the HBO series in the database at all (except that a couple of its episodes are attached to one of the IFC series' pages).

If you agree with this, then I'm willing to submit the correction to merge those two series (2014/I) and (2014/II) with each other. But I don't have enough information to submit the HBO series to the database; if you do that (start at http://www.imdb.com/updates?update=title), that would be the best strategy.

Once the HBO series is in the database, you can then go to the page for each of the misplaced episodes (such as http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3626384/ for "Third Member") and click "Edit page". On the next screen, near the bottom of the page, on the Episode Title/Number line (fourth from the end), select "Correct". Click "Continue".

On the next screen, you will be able to correct the Series title associated with the episode. Change it to "Garfunkel and Oates" (2012) (or whatever the exact listing for the HBO series is once it is listed in IMDB). You will also want to change the episode number, presumably, and check the box to provide an explanation. Click "Check these updates" and go through the process to complete the submission.

Please let me know if you want me to submit a correction to merge "Garfunkel and Oates" (2014/I) with "Garfunkel and Oates" (2014/II). Or, if you prefer, you can submit it yourself.

I hope this helps. Good luck!
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Thanks for the speedy reply! Yes, if you think that's the best option then I say go ahead and merge them together and then I'll create a separate HBO series page afterwards.

I do know for a fact that one of the pages did used to list the distributor as HBO 2012, but a misinformed person must have changed it to IFC 2014. Yesterday I submitted a correction to this page http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2276413/ to try to switch the company back to HBO, so I hope that won't mess up this process.

But anyway as I said before, yes please submit a correction to merge both pages! Thank you so much for your help.
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Scott: I've sent in the merge request.
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Hello,

It's been a month since I submitted a new title request for the Garfunkel and Oates HBO series and it still hasn't been processed. Is there anything you can do to help with this?

I obviously can't move over the incorrect episodes from the IFC series until this page is up. If it helps, the reference number for the title submission is 140620-225549-234000 .

Thank you!
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Scott: I don't know what might have gone wrong, since New Titles processing is not backlogged more than three days (see http://www.imdb.com/czone/times), and you have been waiting a month now.

Please post your last full data submission here on this message board. You can copy it out of the receipt you would have received from IMDb by e-mail immediately after sending it in. Some of the regulars on the board may review it and, if they can, they may provide suggestions as to how to improve the submission to get it included in the database.

[Edited to add: This discussion is continued in the thread at https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/new_title_submission_problem.]
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