[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.

[Brekkie]

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.

And the whole point of the film is causing pain.

[Neil Jones]

And the whole point of the film is causing pain.

Is it?

It's Home Alone 2, not Texas Chainsaw Massacre...

[Andrew]

The announcer before “Britain Get Singing” made a point of mentioning that it is pre-recorded

So presumably there will be a mention of something newsy that is outdated now compared to whenever they recorded it

[Brekkie]

The announcer before “Britain Get Singing” made a point of mentioning that it is pre-recorded

So presumably there will be a mention of something newsy that is outdated now compared to whenever they recorded it

Probably due to the involvement of Kate Garraway following the news about her husband last week.

Also don't get why they now have two Carol services on Christmas Eve - one with the rightful future Queen of England and one with Kate Middleton.

[JAS84]

GMB tomorrow is half the advertised length. Same reason?

[JamieMurph25]

Can I say that my sister, who is into her soap operas, was disappointed about the lengths of the Christmas Day episodes of 'Emmerdale' and 'Coronation Street' this year, normally it would've been an hour long for festive episodes, let alone on a Monday.

[Edogawa Ranpo]

Can I say that my sister, who is into her soap operas, was disappointed about the lengths of the Christmas Day episodes of 'Emmerdale' and 'Coronation Street' this year, normally it would've been an hour long for festive episodes, let alone on a Monday.

I can see why more people are excited for EastEnders than those other two.
ITV needs to get some better writers if they wanna compete with the Beeb again.

[IndigoTucker]

Can I say that my sister, who is into her soap operas, was disappointed about the lengths of the Christmas Day episodes of 'Emmerdale' and 'Coronation Street' this year, normally it would've been an hour long for festive episodes, let alone on a Monday.

The Boxing Day episodes of both were a continuation of the Christmas Day episode - makes me think they were meant to be 1hr long, until ITV realised there was too much TV to fit into a single day, esp with BBC1 airing Who/Strictly/Midwife/Eastenders alongside.

[Brekkie]

The Boxing Day episodes of both were a continuation of the Christmas Day episode - makes me think they were meant to be 1hr long, until ITV realised there was too much TV to fit into a single day, esp with BBC1 airing Who/Strictly/Midwife/Eastenders alongside.

ITV haven't worried about that before and could easily have tweaked things to accommodate it - the 1% Club could have been pushed an hour later and Barry Humphries bumped to another night.

They tried something different, it didn't work - but at least they tried.