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Many of our Forum members have emailed five about their recent edits, and James was the second to post a reply:
Thank you for your recent e-mail regarding Home and Away.
With reference to the programme which you noticed had been edited, the primary reason for these edits is to ensure that is suitable for the transmission time it has been allocated. Please note that we take great care with our edits, editing always with an eye towards preserving the essential subject matter and spirit of each programme.
In this instance, we removed scenes of drug taking.
We appreciate your concern and support and thank you once again for taking the time and trouble to write to us here at Five. Our viewers’ opinions are always welcome whether critical or otherwise.
Thank you for your interest in Five.
This still doesn't tell us anything we don't already know. It seems fair for five to cut the drug-taking scenes (although worse scenes have been seen in the past in similar timeslots), but why make the decision to cut many of the other un-related scenes?
Once again, we'll keep you up to date with the situation.
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