[SuperSajuuk]

Then find 5 seconds of footage of something else to replace the 5 seconds of telephone number you removed, submit the new version to have it checked for legal compliance, have the audio description edited/re-recorded to match the new visuals, have the subtitles file edited to match the timings of the edited video, etc.

Not sure why you felt the need to come across as unnecessarily hostile in this response tbh. It comes across as quite arrogant, as it implies you haven't actually watched any of the episodes in question to know how Challenge did the edits for S1-S4 of Millionaire.

In fact, Challenge didn't "cut out" phone number references in any other episode by "using footage from elsewhere" for a vast majority of instances where it was needed to remove the phone number [only a small number of these instances used footage from elsewhere in the episode]: most of the time they simply used a basic thematic transition effect across the offending section that needed cut out and, where necessary, put a thematic graphic of "Lines Are Closed" over the phone number graphic itself [if the phone number would have been left visible due to it being burned into the tapes they received], as they attempted to preserve as much of the episodes as they could while removing promotional content.

Indeed, parts of Series 4 have the most limited amounts of edits possible for this reason, where they just removed the 2 seconds of Chris reading the phone number, covered it over with their transitions and left everything else as is. There is little to no chance it would have needed to be checked for "legal compliance" and the other points are relatively minor: if they wanted to avoid the other edits being needed, they could have just padded a second or two of a fade-to-black or a static Millionaire logo in other places.