With spoilers and leaks becoming an ever-present battle for popular television series, Twin Peaks has had a serious horror show after one of its episodes leaked a whole week early.
Sky has confirmed its German syndicate Sky Deutschland accidentally showed 'Part 14' of the popular drama on Monday (August 8), instead of 'Part 13' which was scheduled to air.
The error was picked up on by German fans, who took to social media to complain, and Sky later confirmed it had run the show out of sequence due to a labelling error.
A Lynchian nightmare if ever there was one. Although given just how bonkers Twin Peaks can be even when watched in the right order, we're impressed people noticed.
"Due to an accidental wrong labelling of the broadcasting file of a new episode of Twin Peaks, episode 14 instead of 13 was available on Sky On Demand in Germany for a short period of time this morning," Sky told Variety.
"As soon as we got notice, the episode was removed. We apologise for the inconvenience and are working on making the correct episode available for our customers as soon as possible tonight."
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After the episode was taken down (there's still debate as to how long the episode was up for before it was removed), Sky Deutschland issued an on-screen apology to fans saying "something has gone wrong".
Nevertheless, it appears enough people caught the wrong episode, as tagged spoilers for 'Part 14' can now be found on Tumblr, Reddit and Twitter.
While we won't ruin anything for Twin Peaks fans, Germany has a bit of previous with the David Lynch series. Indeed, in 1990, the channel Sat.1 revealed Laura Palmer's killer before the episode had even aired.
And now, around 25 years later... It. Is. Happening. Again.
Twin Peaks airs on Showtime in the US and Sky Atlantic in the UK.
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