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Concept:
Graham Sadler

Contributors:
Kevan Davis
Graham Sadler

Sources:
Guardian Guide
Guardian Unlimited
Radio Times
et al

(To join in, just submit a programme. But make sure you know what this site's about, first.)

Explanation

TV Misguidance listings are created by taking various individual lines from the listings magazine of your choice, and recombining them to amusing effect.

To illustrate the process, here are two genuine programmes from the Guardian Unlimited listings magazine, our chosen lines highlighted in red:-

3.00am	Undercover Girl [Film] - A crime reporter is murdered while working on a mysterious case, prompting his brother-in-law to set out in search of revenge. Thriller, with Paul Carpenter, Bruce Seton, Kay Callard and Monica Grey
7.00pm	Emmerdale - Learning that Sam is not in Ireland as he was led to believe, Zak mounts a desperate search to locate his son. Meanwhile, the teenagers return to school, but it is all too much for Donna, and Diane chides herself for losing control and sharing an intimate moment with Rodney - a situation Bernice finds highly amusing.

By combining these, assigning a title assembled at random from any old titles on the same page and scheduling it at whatever hour we feel like, we get the not-particularly-funny:-

23.50

Undercover Body [FILM] A crime reporter is murdered with Rodney - a situation Bernice finds highly amusing.

Do you see?

If you want to submit general television-listing humour - satire, surrealism, punnage or whatever - you should be looking at the Other Listings Magazine. Try not to get them mixed up.