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Law & Order: UK -- The "Unaired" Episode 8
MoreTears
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For the past seven weeks I have been watching Law & Order: UK in Canada. Last week the episode aired was "Alesha," the seventh episode, which I believe was the last episode screened in Britain months ago. I did read on DS that your ITV was holding back the final six episodes that were filmed for the autumn. Well, it appears that in Canada all thirteen episodes are being aired in consecutive weeks. Last night I watched the eighth episode, titled "Samaritan." It is based on the US series' episode "Manhood," which was the 21st episode of the third season, airing originally on 12 May 1993. I don't know if any Canadians up-loaded the episode on to the internet, but maybe interested Brits will be able to find it. It doesn't sound like ITV made a good decision in splitting the thirteen episodes into two blocks and holding back the second block -- especially if they knew that the episodes they chose to delay would air abroad before they were aired in Britain.
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Any episodes uploaded to Youtube have been deleted. There's a video with text explaining this, I'll quote it. WTF? Apparently you can't post Tiny URL.com links! :mad: Is that website illegal or what? I'll have to link to the Youtube video instead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai2aXVEU1KI
The bottom line is, it won't be online.
It might be available through torrents. I am not a downloader myself so I don't know, but I imagine some Brits will be checking.
I wish they just showed them all in one go though.
They do this all the time.
Then they come down like a ton of bricks on their own auidence who just want to see their programmes.
They hold to much on their shelves they could just sell them on to cable or at least give them run on ITV3 if their rights allow that. I hear they keep all their good shows on their shelves
ITV don't pay for programs till they air.
They're just slowing the pace down so they can afford to show it at all.
The average member of the public just won't understand how it works though, and will just see it as unfair, silly, and annoying.
Which it is, even when you do undertsand the reasoning behind such behavior.
your average viewer is unlieky to know it has aired in canada.
Doubt they'd be too pleased if they found out though.
ITV do pay the production companies for the show at the time , it then sits on the shelf classed as stock in hand . Which is why they will at some point have to make a decision to show it or not as in the current climate their shareholders could demand they either sell it or write it off as a loss agains tax.
The reason it stockpiles is due to the number of cheaper shows such as Traffic Jams from Hell that they have run in slots which make them more money as they are so cheap to make. They schedule these and then have no prime time slots available to air the stockpiled stuff and cannot justify putting them out in a cheap graveyard slot , it is better accounts wise to eventually write them off completely or keep them as stock in hand which adds more value to their annual accounts.
No surpise this happens.
It wasn't mentioned in the Press Release for the Autumn line up, so maybe they will hold it back until the Winter or next Spring and play around with it as they did Heartbeat and The Royal.
I would have thought they would mention it in this case , bearing in mind it was a new series , they have commissioned more episodes and they have themselves effectively split it into two series, that it would warrant a mention.
I see the DVD of Series 1 which was due to be released in September has now been postponed until 2010, so maybe they still dont have an air date in mind for it yet all ITV say in the press is "they will be aired at a later date" .