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I’ve noticed that STV appear to have different edits of these early episodes than those shown on UK Living. On Living, the standard EOP slides/bumpers were used, that we were familiar with seeing on Channel 4, whereas on STV Player the End of Part One/Part Two text is superimposed over the action, sometimes in a different font. The break stings also play over a lot more of the dialogue on STV.

I am guessing that what we are seeing on STV are the original edits, and prior to transmission these were re-edited at the request of either Channel Four or someone at Mersey TV, who preferred the use of break slides. UK Living got the same edits that Channel 4 used, but STV had to go back to the distributor (possibly Lime Pictures) and were given the original edits. At some point on STV we will probably start seeing the slides once we reach the point when production/post-production “got the memo”.

Episode Seven (UK Living) - skip to about 10:55:

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