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Crisis Command! This show had a really tortuous history, there was a pilot which went under the unweildly name of The Bunker - Crisis Command: Could You Run The Country?, then when the series arrived it was slimmed down to just Crisis Command: Could You Run The Country? I think two episodes couldn't be shown because they were too similar to actual news stories, but one was shown ages later, at 11.20 after Newsnight, billed as simply Could You Run The Country? They never showed the final one but, if they did, presumably the title would now be simply "?".
Also after Dunblane, as well as that change of film on ITV, they cancelled a repeat of The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer because it featured a scene where Vic shoots the entire contents of a china shop. However Channel Four really messed up as they used to have an ident where Mark Little shot a gun at the camera and created four bullet holes, which they ended up showing before The Big Breakfast at 7am the morning after the event, and Little read out an apology a bit later, saying "I can't believe that went out".
I remember too that in the summer of 1998, ITV were showing Cracker repeats at 9pm but they were flopping so they got them over with quicker by shoving the final episode at 10.40 on the same night as the penultimate episode, but HTV had a load of regional programmes on that night so couldn't and still scheduled the final episode for the following week at 9pm. However the Omagh bomb happened a few days earlier and so HTV cancelled Cracker and joined the network film instead. Unfortunately it was Die Hard, which hardly seemed any more suitable, and must have made for a dodgy announcement ("Due to serveral deaths, we're now showing Die Hard").
Also I've said it a few times but there was a gameshow (if you can call it that) on BBC2 where three people had to make decisions in a fake crisis control centre. The last episode was cancelled as the crisis was about a hostage situation or something and was due to air the week Ken Bigley got beheaded.
Crisis Command! This show had a really tortuous history, there was a pilot which went under the unweildly name of The Bunker - Crisis Command: Could You Run The Country?, then when the series arrived it was slimmed down to just Crisis Command: Could You Run The Country? I think two episodes couldn't be shown because they were too similar to actual news stories, but one was shown ages later, at 11.20 after Newsnight, billed as simply Could You Run The Country? They never showed the final one but, if they did, presumably the title would now be simply "?".
Also after Dunblane, as well as that change of film on ITV, they cancelled a repeat of The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer because it featured a scene where Vic shoots the entire contents of a china shop. However Channel Four really messed up as they used to have an ident where Mark Little shot a gun at the camera and created four bullet holes, which they ended up showing before The Big Breakfast at 7am the morning after the event, and Little read out an apology a bit later, saying "I can't believe that went out".
I remember too that in the summer of 1998, ITV were showing Cracker repeats at 9pm but they were flopping so they got them over with quicker by shoving the final episode at 10.40 on the same night as the penultimate episode, but HTV had a load of regional programmes on that night so couldn't and still scheduled the final episode for the following week at 9pm. However the Omagh bomb happened a few days earlier and so HTV cancelled Cracker and joined the network film instead. Unfortunately it was Die Hard, which hardly seemed any more suitable, and must have made for a dodgy announcement ("Due to serveral deaths, we're now showing Die Hard").