Reliability of listings greatly improved!

As previously hoped, Films on Freeview now has a working new system for updating its movie listings, meaning that you should no longer see blank days on the site. We hope that you'll now be able to trust on FoF for your viewing needs!

Previous issues were two-fold: the update process was manually triggered and lengthy, and sometimes came across problem titles that required fixing and meant doing the whole thing again. The new listings system handles these problem titles automatically, and thus can be scheduled to run automatically, with greater frequency and no baby-sitting.

This is still a pet project for me, but do get in touch if you have any suggestions, don't be a stranger to the forum, and tell your friends! George

Experiencing technical difficulties...

Thanks to Alan for pointing out the current lack of listings. The bad news is that I'm having trouble getting them back up and it may take a few days; the good news is that if successful, the update process should be vastly upgraded and make missing listings a thing of the past.

I've been busy lately, but the new-and-improved RSS feeds that I've mentioned before should be coming soon too. The current feed is pretty rough and jumbled (an external service tries to 'guess' how to present the page as a feed item), where the new one should be clean and precise. There'll be one for tomorrow's films as well as one for today's... if you can think of any other useful ways of regularly receiving listings, I'm all ears.

update: We're back, but the update process is still very shaky. I'm still scratching my head trying to figure it out. It's doubtful you'll reliably be able to see the full week ahead for a few days, but if I do work it out, the site will be much more frequently updated from then on.