[SuperSajuuk]

ITV receiving some (well deserved, IMO) flack on Twitter for some pretty overly-cautious editing to Home Alone 2 tonight, including the famous electric shock scene getting butchered with no screaming Marv skeleton. Pretty strange considering Channel 4 leave it untouched whenever they've shown it in recent years.

ITV have a habit of censoring a lot of "distressing" content from films (I gather that this was outsourced to a specialist editing company a long time ago, and this edited copy is the only one they have to play over and over every year), presumably because they play the content at random times, including before the agreed watershed of 9pm and also because they don't have a dedicated movies channel to play that content on.

Indeed, every time the Harry Potter movies are played on ITV1/STV, they are littered in random minor edits to cover up visibility of things like blood, despite the fact they can just place a content warning before the said content is actually shown. In this regard, I prefer watching movies via Sky Cinema now since, apart from certain movies like Die Hard 4.0, they're the uncensored home media version.

That being said, negativity is all you'll find on the platform formerly known as Twitter: its a place where you are now platformed to say whatever you want [even more so if you just buy a subscription to the failing site], and I suspect a lot of TV broadcasters don't bother reading it for actual opinions from the public, when 95% of it is just vitriolic and abusive. In the past, it might've been less abusive, but nowadays people going on that platform should just expect to see only abusive content and no actual constructive criticism.