Apostrophe catastrophe, # 76

Another from Sky’s new television guide team. It won’t be the last!

Time Lords […] adventure

Mangling Meaning, # 26

Another strange verbal construction and some less than smooth punctuation from Sky’s on-screen television guide:

sold 250 millions

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 120

Dr Faustus has been watching television, or at least he’s been consulting a television guide. This programme summary had successfully negotiated two apostrophes, but then it all went wrong…

4OD, Channel 4’s online On Demand service, varies the summary, but creates some new confusion:

Link: 4OD, Come Dine with Me, Series 30 Episode 124, ‘Woking and Weybridge: Sara’

Will Sara managed to exceed her guests low expectations? to host, for what

Double-take, # 14

Since having Sky installed some years ago, I’ve found very few errors on its schedule. This, however, is a beauty:

Gibbs’ should, of course, be Gibbs’s (this use of the possessive apostrophe was covered last week); but it’s the relationships that have confused the scheduler: both Gibbs and Fornell have (not concurrently) been married to the same woman, whose present husband’s abduction is the focal point of the episode. Definitely only one kidnap victim, so the are should be is.