VALLEY COPS, BBC 1 Wales 9pm (now) . Should be a laugh.

[BLUETIT]

Started off funny, but was quite sad by the end. What a grim situation some of those people are in. Only getting worse for future generations too.

This multiplied by 10.

Really depressing stuff, it was if that one lad had his own private protection service to the nick.

[J R Hartley]

This multiplied by 10.

Really depressing stuff, it was if that one lad had his own private protection service to the nick.

All creatively edited for the programme

[Taunton Blue Genie]

All creatively edited for the programme

I haven't seen the programme but the level of editing on TV reeks of incredible artifice.
I recently spoke to someone who appeared on Dragon's Den and he was primed with raising the financial stake he required and most of the exchanges with the Dragons were cut and made him look very stupid. (Having had many discussions with him I suspected as much when I saw the recording).
And don't start me on the 'nodding donkey shots' that are all pervasive and the 'talking heads' programmes where low level celebs are paid to proffer opinions on footage and TV clips that they were only recently spoon-fed whilst pretending they were familiar with the material when it came out decades previously (when some of them were still in nappies).
The one exception is 'Question Time' which is hardly touched (if at all) in the editing studio. Rushing home from the recordings on a couple of occasions it was not evident if any editing had cut anything whatsoever.