The Tube series 2 BBC

Could be a whole number of different reasons. I don't know the exact reason, can only provide some examples as to what might be happening in the schedulers and series editor's offices. I won't list them all (as I don't know them all, and even if I did, I wouldn't want to bore the members of the forum to death!)

From memory, wasn't The Routemasters: running London's Roads being broadcast in the run up to Margaret Thatcher's death and then run up to her funeral? As we know, the BBC schedules went out the window from the day her death was announced, right up until the day (pretty much) after her funeral, with extended and extra news bulletins at every opportunity! BBC Two now need to find a place where they can put it back into the schedule without causing too much disruption to other planned programs. Bear in mind that TV schedules are finalised weeks, even months, in advance in the majority of cases. (Contrary to popular belief, channel controllers don't take the decision to change the schedule at the last minute lightly, even though it may seem the opposite!) Next 20 weeknights at 6:30pm from Monday are out for example, as that is Michael Portillo's Great British Railway Journeys. Christmas university challenge is nearly finished, but does anyone know how long the break is between the end of the Christmas series and the resumption of the "normal" series?

As to series 2 of The Tube, it's probably only just finished filming, given that last series was filmed over a year. But having said that of course, last series started being transmitted as they were finishing filming of later episodes in the first series (we discussed it on this very forum of course, remember it well), so even that argument doesn't hold much water. 

Maybe those that have been involved in the filming of (either) series may be able to shed some light, as it could be of course that filming is running late for The Tube. I suspect that The Routemasters was finished months ago, and is just awaiting transmission, but may be wrong. 

I gather that the reason why the last episode of "Routemaster" hasn't been shown is that it includes a bit where a lady cyclist has an unequal argument with a bus and this is all caught by the TV crew and since there is a legal element, that [apparently very interesting] part of the film has temp.become sub-judice.

Arun

An episode of 'Silent Witness' was delayed for several months because it closely mirrored a criminal trial that was taking place at the transmission time.

Update: The final episode of series 1 of The Route Masters: Running London's roads aired last night on BBC2 at 10pm. It's available until 12:34am on 14th February. Link here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03ty7l8/hd/The_Route_Masters_Running_Londons_Roads_Fighting_Crime/

DVD? I was hoping Blu-Ray but I guess the projected demand outweighs the cost of production. It's something though.

A bit of confusion here, as the DVD release by "Delta Home Entertainment" mentioned is for "The Underground" (BBC Series), whereas the BBC titled the 6 part series 1 "The Tube".
I believe it is the same 2012 Blast Films TV series from 2012-13.

interestingly the Australian release has a different cover:

There's potentially a rights/copyright issue. A previous series by ITV (also called 'The Tube') has also previously been released on Home Entertainment, so there's potentially an issue there.

Broadcast and Home Ent. are different ball games, so just because it's worked out for one, doesn't mean it is for the other.

I'm not saying that is the reason. I'm just saying it's a logical guess!