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[alisonjoy]

wow that was the best ever tonight i think. don't you all agree. does anyone know if you can get any series on dvd??

[Loosehead]

yeah I agree, just watched it myself. The great thing is you can spend the whole show trying to figure out who the target is. I thought tonight was going to be to wind up the Police, how wrong I was. Best program for a long time, last one till next year they said, dam!

[j2buttonsw]

You can get the first series on DVD for �29.99. You can get it cheaper from the BBC (�25 inc P+P).

[libertie]

Yep, have to agree..........very entertaining.

[QmunkE]

Be careful about getting it on DvD - some reviews I read on Amazon said the episodes had been cut in order to make them suitable for the foreign market (i.e. they had about seven or eight minutes cut out for ad breaks). Yes, it was a great episode.

[acw]

1) Why do you need an ad break in a DVD?

2) What happened at the end?  I got a phone call JUST as they were getting out of the cab!!!!  Up til that point I thought it was one of the least entertaining I'd seen so far.  But then the final 5 minutes do make the rest of the episode make sense, so I won't judge yet.  Could someone please tell me what happened at the end!! :-)

[missesbell]

If anyone taped it and can let me buy it.........we live in staffordshire and had a power cut from 9.10pm til 03.20. Can't believe I missed my favourite programme.

[Loosehead]

Acw:

1) I think that Qmunke is saying that for the US market they would be cut for ad breaks and also these are the ones that where transferred to DVD not the full length ones because all the other regions expect programs to be 40-50 mins long.

2) They get arrested and interrogated....... oh so much happenned, you'll have to get the DVD.

[acw]

But different parts of the world have different DVD regions.  So can't Regions 2,3, and 4 have different editions?  Take 24 for example (from Fox in the US).  When aired on BBC2 it lasted about 50 minutes because the Americans had ad breaks build into the hour of real time.  The DVD also has each episode of about 50 minutes.  No action is lost, the episode just takes a longer space in the schedule when there are more adverts. 

Perhaps I'm being stupid - I just don't get why a UK region DVD issued by the BBC (even if sold in a highstreet store) would have cuts in it.  Spooks didn't - and Hussle is made by the same people. 

I don't mean to be pedantic - I'm just confused!

 

oh - and TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED!!!!
*jumps up and down like petulant child wanting lolly pop* :-p

[Loosehead]

There's no reason for it, that's just the version that got copied to DVD, assuming Qmunke is right. I don't think there is a conciuos decision.

[QmunkE]

I only read it on Amazon. I didn't see two versions on there, I just read the review and it said that the episodes were shorter than broadcast length.

[acw]

QmunkE I really don't mean to criticise you at all! :-)  Even if you are totally correct (which I'm sure you are) I just don't understand WHY they would do it!!! :-)  Like I said, I may be being a bit dumb!