US sitcom The Goldbergs begins on Seven this week, featuring a family in the 1980s videotaped by their youngest son Adam.

Seven screens Episode 1 at 8:45pm on Wednesday. A second episode will air at 9:15pm but this will be Episode 7.

Next week it airs Episode 8, followed by Episodes 2 and 11 a week later.

It’s hardly the first time networks have been guilty of this practice, but it’s a lot more difficult for them to slip them under the radar with net-savvy audiences.

@tvtonightau Hi! AFG, creator of the show here. I set my show in 1980something, so there is absolutely no sequence at all! — Adam F. Goldberg (@adamfgoldberg) June 1, 2014

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