[RM94]

An airing of Cruel Winter from December 2001, I believe this is from it's original TX date in the UK:
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Not quite…
The original trailer from Cruel Winter stated that it started on “New Years Day @ 5PM.” And with it being hinted that the recording is from the 3rd Episode of the series as implied by the announcer, it isn’t the original TX date.
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In addition, the on-screen graphic that says “Repeat” indicates that this a repeat of a live episode from after its original TX date, so I’m guessing this aired sometime around Mid or Late January or even Early February, depending on how spread out the episodes were.

TL;DR, I am that aforementioned friend who Lyric said wanted to see this series again.