You really, honestly, truthfully couldn't make this up.
A series which had finished filming in May 2004 was originally scheduled to be shown in October of the same year but instead gets pulled from the schedule not once but at least four times. And when it was finally shown two months ago the title was shortened from "Jane Hall's Big Bad Bus Ride" to just "Jane Hall".
The series itself was that ultra rare commodity on ITV1; namely something with a degree of originality that was not only critically acclaimed but earned a respectable average of 3.6 million viewers. But of course being ITV you can probably guess what happens next even if you haven't read the linked MediaGuardian article by now.
ITV's excuse this time probably sounds vaguely plausible from a business perspective, namely that it wants to chase younger viewers instead of having a schedule cluttered up with programming aimed at people aged over 40. Therefore we should ask the question "Why was Jane Hall commissioned in the first place"?
Though all of this naturally highlights the sheer incompetence of just allowing ITV to do what it wants as opposed to providing a public service for which it holds expensive public service broadcast licences (supposedly regional ones as well, though these days you may as well not refer to them as such).
