PBS america - plays out same segment twice in Bush doc

Last night I was watching the GEorge W Bush doc on PBS America The second to last segment of the programme was a segment from much earlier in the Ep.

How could this have happened? I guess playout on PBS is automated and someone dropped the same segment on the timeline twice by accident.

Not a big deal in the current climate just a minor annoyance to sit thru the segment again.

I remember E4 doing this once, the continuity announcer made a joke about it after and said they'd fix it for the next repeat.

Challenge once played the same episode of something or other twice, one after the other.

These things happen. Perhaps incorrect metadata, or an incorrect material ID in the playlist. You'd hope that these things get caught by the director when they're previewing things but they may be looking after multiple channels and on the rare occasion, things slip through the net.

When I worked on playout for Challenge (many many moons ago), reversions of Eggheads were being delivered inexplicably close to transmission. One day the tapes for a double bill didn't show up until minutes before TX, so we didn't have time to get it onto the playout server - merely check the timecodes and play it straight off tape. About 45 minutes later it became apparent that part two on the second tape was actually the second part of the first episode, something we only spotted because the questions were starting to sound quite familiar...

Countdown once had the contestants and guests giving their answers to the next set of the letters instead of the ones they'd just played. It was a bit like a Two Ronnies sketch, but not as funny.

But that sounds like an editing error, rather than a playout error..

The Countdown thing is just sloppy editing, not like Channel 4 sit there playing segments out and just happened to pick the wrong one, that's an editing error.