>I don't like the programme, I dont watch the programme but I have to say ITV is being extreremly mean-fisted in stopping C5 from showing it for a year...millions of people do enjoy it but does ITV care, now they're just a bunch of twisted, mean spiritted buggars

Hey, who ever said the viewers count on matters like this?
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The good thing is at least C5 won't censor it, a prime example being this last weeks episodes which were hacked to pieces.

Are you sure you don't like the programme?

I'm the second Anon, and I hate it except for that lifeguard woman.

Of course ITV are well known for the ridiculous cuts they have made to the show i.e. cutting one sections in Yorkshire, but showing it in another region.

So perhaps they should kjust give it to C5 instead of wasting everybody's time.

I don't like the show, of course. I'm a neighbours man myself.

When I lived in the Yorkshire TV catchment area, they were terrible for censoring things, and showing terrible old films when something really good was being shown on Granada. Apparently it was because the station manager or whoever was a complete nutter tyrant...I wonder if he's still there (can't remember his name)

>When I lived in the Yorkshire TV catchment area, they were terrible for censoring things, and showing terrible old films when something really good was being shown on Granada. Apparently it was because the station manager or whoever was a complete nutter tyrant...I wonder if he's still there (can't remember his name)

Bruce Gyngell - the man who banned the colour blue from TV-am and who Mrs. Thatcher personally apologised to, when the company lost its franchise in 1991.

He is not there any more. When Granada bought Yorkshire TV, they gave him the sack.

Exactly the same episode of Home and Away would have been shown to all regions (albeit at different times) as each episode is recorded in from the ITFC (Independent Television Facilities Centre), who have the library. If there were any regional differences, it would have been, for example, Carlton and associates showing the Channel 7 logo at the very end but United cutting this bit out.

>Exactly the same episode of Home and Away would have been shown to all regions (albeit at different times) as each episode is recorded in from the ITFC (Independent Television Facilities Centre), who have the library. If there were any regional differences, it would have been, for example, Carlton and associates showing the Channel 7 logo at the very end but United cutting this bit out.

Why then did a magazine i read a couple of years ago show that different regions showed different thing. Unfortunatly, i can't find this magazine, so i can't print any examples (although i remember one was about a girl being run over a train- shown in one region but not another). ITV also made careless mistakes such as cutting one scene, only to then show it in the flashback section of the next episode.
Perhaps ITV now understan the adage you don't know whjat you got till it's gone

But probably not

There are considerable regional edits made to a lot of Aus. imports. PCBH is one example. To start with, different ITV regions acquired the rights to different regional versions of Prisoner (Adelaide/Sydney/Melbourne) and then imposed their own edits. Some edits were due to 'excessive violence' and some due to a libel case involving the show.

Somoene was on Right 2 Reply about the cuts in Neighbours, i know - apparently a storyline revolving about Billy and ...er... whoever he was gonig out with at that time... choosing *not* to have sex was cut out - presumably just because sex was mentioned.

>Bruce Gyngell - the man who banned the colour blue from TV-am and who Mrs. Thatcher personally apologised to, when the company lost its franchise in 1991.
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He was the man who banned Carlton's Good Sex Guide from YTTTV.
He was also the man who banned Tyne Tees.

On a similar theme, Border banned OTT (the adult Tiswas) in 1982 for several weeks after the first show. They subsequently relented.

Any other bans?

>He was the man who banned Carlton's Good Sex Guide from YTTTV.
>He was also the man who banned Tyne Tees.

Strange that he banned the colour blue and then banned Tyne Tees and replaced it with a disturbingly lurid shade of blue in it's successor.

He also banned God's Gift, for heaven's sakes!! But he completely failed to ban a sex-led programme made by YTV... hmmm...

Did you know as well that Tyne Tees showed one extra edition of The Good Sex Guide than YTV? They were still doing their own continuity at the time (mid-1993), and the on-duty transmission controller at Tyne Tees was given a formal written warning for showing it, despite the fact that was what he was told to do by YTV previously? What a prat...

Gyngell didn't allow Carnal Knowledge (appalling though it was) to be shown either.

S4C cut many scenes out of Queer As Folk, while Channel 4 showed all.