Wrong copyright dates

[uncle al]

Last night's Midsomer was obviously a good 7 or 8 years old (R reg Barnaby car, Cully's first meeting with Troy...) but the end caption said copyright 2003?

Also recent re-runs on Heartbeat at teatime said 2004 when they were obviously much older (Greengrass, the copper before last (can't remember his name, etc)

 

Why?

[netibiza]

 No idea, but maybe by re.copyrighting them they prevent other channels from screening them???

[ermintrude35]

..I think perhaps it has something to do with the sponsors of the prog. ...for example if the original Heartbeat was sponsored by Tetley (for example) and then in later years they drop their sponsorship deal and is replaced by another company ...maybe I'm wrong, it's just a hunch...

[Aquariel]

Maybe they are trying to convince us that they haven't repeated them as often as they have done!

I have noticed that a lot of ITV credits now seem very generic in style - I didn't watch last night's MM so I'm not certain, but maybe they've been redoing old credits to fit in with the new style?

[Cockney_si]

Maybe they just had it so that he had an older car like in A touch of frost.... ?

[jenstar]

It's because they've been re-edited - Heartbeat into four parts rather than three, and Midsomer Murders into six instead of five. The end credits are usually updated into the current ITV house style too. The new format is credited with the copyright date the updating was done. Notice that the four-part Heartbeats not only have a copyright date of MMIV (2004) but are still credited to Yorkshire TV - if they were done now, they'd be credited to Granada instead.

[uncle al]

Thanks Jenstar

That makes sense.

How did you know??