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Cut TV screenings on the Yesterday channel

posted 14 years ago by duke-verity
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What a pity that the people at the Yesterday channel have decided to run the series with significant cuts made to each episode.

The versions that they're screening run at just over 46 minutes each. Approximately three minutes of material is cut from each episode in order to fit a time slot that includes three commercial breaks. This usually involves shortening selected scenes in order to bring the running time down, although on occasion they cut out whole scenes for the same purpose.

They also make cuts to this programme for violence, presumably because of the morning and mid-afternoon transmission times. Today's episode had a fight scene scene between Jack Ford and Matt Headley cut out in its entirety. Other scenes were shortened slightly to help bring down the running time. Standard Yesterday channel policy.

It can't be right that a fabulous classic programme is being treated in this way.

[–] Plausible_Poosay 14 years ago

Please understand one fundamental thing about commercial TV channels: they exist ONLY to sell crap to idiots. The programmes get in the way of the advertising stream. If you want to see the entirety of this magnificent series then buy the DVD - just over £50 from Amazon at this time.

Close the pod-bay doors, HAL.

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[–] marktayloruk 14 years ago

I noticed the cut,too. There should be a law obliging TV companies to show all films and repeats totally uncut.
I also noticed a discrepancy in the original series.Second series-Arthur and Jessie discussing the fall of the 1924 Labour government.Third series- Matt and Eddie Morton discussing the Labour Government's taking emergency powers to break a transport strike.Series was ended too early-would like to have seen episode dealing with the General Strike!

[–] MidniteRambler 14 years ago

You are quite right. The only way to enjoy this series is to buy the dvd box set; it can be bought series by series if £50 is too steep in one hit. This is one of a handful of TV masterpieces from the seventies and eighties worth the purchase price and superior to anything and everything produced in the last decade or two.

Hie thee hither, that I may pour my spirits in thine ear.

[–] MidniteRambler 14 years ago

I watched a couple of episodes of WTBCI this week and they had cut it for content as well as time. In the episode where Jessie and her boyfriend Robin try to blackmail Jack, Jack tells Robin that when he was at Cambridge he was a poof. And in the 'Bright Young Things' the brother character refers to the Empress Josephine (who had owned Momo's necklace) as a 'blousy, feather-headed whore'.

I really don't think tea-time audiences could have survived if they had heard thesetwo observations. Thank god they cut them out.

[–] duke-verity 14 years ago

Ironically they left the anti-fascist violence intact (including a graphic kick to the groin) in the episode 'Action!'. The editors at the Yesterday channel must have made the decision that it had some moral justification.

The cuts they made recently to Alan Bleasdale's 'G.B.H' were absolutely ridiculous. All sex, violence and profanity was removed entirely. This classic early 90s series originally went out in a post-watershed slot as drama intended for adult audiences, not as family teatime screenings.

[–] mrcdrous 10 years ago

Agree with the comments re, commercial channels.

Not just his, but Bergerac, All Creatures Great & Small, and everything else they cram in around their adverts.