diff --git a/src/gui/epgview.cpp b/src/gui/epgview.cpp
index 2da390770..54c9bd374 100644
--- a/src/gui/epgview.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/epgview.cpp
@@ -1053,18 +1053,6 @@ void CEpgData::GetPrevNextEPGData( uint64_t id, time_t* startzeit )
 			break;
 		}
 	}
-	/* Houdini: dirty RTL double event workaround, if prev/next event has same starttime as actual event skip it */
-	if ((prev_zeit == *startzeit) && ((i-1) > 0))
-	{
-		prev_id   = evtlist[i- 2].eventID;
-		prev_zeit = evtlist[i- 2].startTime;
-	}
-	if ((next_zeit == *startzeit) && ((i+1) < (evtlist.size()- 1)))
-	{
-		next_id   = evtlist[i+ 2].eventID;
-		next_zeit = evtlist[i+ 2].startTime;
-	}
-
 }
 
 //
diff --git a/src/gui/eventlist.cpp b/src/gui/eventlist.cpp
index 521c9a968..981e04fbe 100644
--- a/src/gui/eventlist.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/eventlist.cpp
@@ -171,18 +171,9 @@ void EventList::readEvents(const t_channel_id channel_id)
 		}
 		// Houdini added for Private Premiere EPG, start sorted by start date/time
 		sort(evtlist.begin(),evtlist.end(),sortByDateTime);
-  		// Houdini: dirty workaround for RTL double events, remove them
-  		CChannelEventList::iterator e2;
-  		for ( e=evtlist.begin(); e!=evtlist.end(); ++e )
-  		{
-  			e2 = e+1;
-  			if ( e2!=evtlist.end() && (e->startTime == e2->startTime)) {
-  				evtlist.erase(e2);
-  			}
-  		}
+
 		timerlist.clear();
 		g_Timerd->getTimerList (timerlist);
-
 	}
 
 	current_event = (unsigned int)-1;