[Tom.]

Its to do with the picture quality across different channels. Some have bigger screens than others. The best way to describe it is to take a picture on an 8 megapixel camera and then move it to a 5 or 10 megapixel camera and view it on those screens. The picture quality never looks as good when its not on the original

Channel 4 obviously gave them the footage rather than Endemol

Originally Posted by Smithy

I think it's a bit like when you see clips of US shows on the news or something and it always looks crap, must be to do with copyright

Americans have a completely different camera system to ours, the pictures are recorded in a different format which is why everything always looks rubbish and dark. But over there it just looks normal or like ours does to us.