ITV have pulled the last episode of Viewpoint

It does seem a bit perverse to effectively judge this guy guilty at this stage.
"Innocent until proven guilty" has definitely foundered on the reef of Facetwit and 'public opinion'.

(And SWMBO is incandescent about the cancellation.)
 
So that means I have not wasted my time watching the previous episodes which I quite enjoyed as I am not one of those who go in for petty nit-picking about plot and procedure when watching this sort of thing.
 
I had recorded this but hadn’t got around to watching it. Now the last episode is “missing” I’ve hit delete.

Just hope the BBC don’t find an excuse to pull the final episode of this series of “Line of Duty”. I’ll be using a stronger expression than “mother of God” if they do.
 
I have tried to download episode 5 via qtube and directly using youtube-dl but get an error:
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error (caused by HTTPError()
Has anyone been able to download it ? If so, would appreciate a copy.
Thanks
 
I have tried to download episode 5 via qtube and directly using youtube-dl but get an error:
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error (caused by HTTPError()
Has anyone been able to download it ? If so, would appreciate a copy.
Thanks
I think they've updated the site itv.com and it's put a spanner in all versions of YouTube-dl. Not many programmes are downloadable at the moment.
The only 2 options that I can think of is wait to see if the next YouTube-dl update will resolve the issue, or try using the alternative site https://www.stv.tv/?player (which you can use the Linux YouTube-dl on, maybe in Windows as well?).

Results from the Humax command line
Code:
youtube-dl -F https://player.stv.tv/episode/4376/viewpoint
[stv:player] 4376: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: <urlopen error [Errno 1] _ssl.c:499: error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol> (caused by URLError(SSLError(1, '_ssl.c:499: error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol'),))

Results from the Linux Mint command line
Code:
youtube-dl -F  https://www.itv.com/hub/viewpoint/10a0556a0005
[ITV] 10a0556a0005: Downloading webpage
[ITV] 10a0556a0005: Downloading JSON metadata
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

youtube-dl -F https://player.stv.tv/episode/4376/viewpoint
[stv:player] 4376: Downloading webpage
[stv:player] 4376: Downloading JSON metadata
[brightcove:new] 6250649953001: Downloading JSON metadata
[brightcove:new] 6250649953001: Downloading m3u8 information
[brightcove:new] 6250649953001: Downloading m3u8 information
[brightcove:new] 6250649953001: Downloading m3u8 information
[brightcove:new] 6250649953001: Downloading m3u8 information
[brightcove:new] 6250649953001: Downloading MPD manifest
[brightcove:new] 6250649953001: Downloading MPD manifest
[brightcove:new] 6250649953001: Downloading MPD manifest
[brightcove:new] 6250649953001: Downloading MPD manifest
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dash-d7d9c192-4cf6-441f-894d-a32bf1c0c6b3-3  m4a        audio only [en] DASH audio  127k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2 (48000Hz)
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dash-aa573902-25e5-4ec2-b969-1d83ab66c8b1-2  mp4        640x360    DASH video  445k , mp4_dash container, avc1.4d001e, video only
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dash-1970f89d-bc88-4884-8384-e1232b0fc2e6-0  mp4        960x540    DASH video  845k , mp4_dash container, avc1.4d001f, video only
dash-1970f89d-bc88-4884-8384-e1232b0fc2e6-1  mp4        960x540    DASH video  845k , mp4_dash container, avc1.4d001f, video only
dash-1970f89d-bc88-4884-8384-e1232b0fc2e6-2  mp4        960x540    DASH video  845k , mp4_dash container, avc1.4d001f, video only
dash-1970f89d-bc88-4884-8384-e1232b0fc2e6-3  mp4        960x540    DASH video  845k , mp4_dash container, avc1.4d001f, video only
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hls-1749-1                                   mp4        1280x720   1749k , avc1.4d001f, video only
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hls-2750-1                                   mp4        1600x900   2750k , avc1.640028, video only
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hls-4077-0                                   mp4        1920x1080  4077k , avc1.640028, video only
hls-4077-1                                   mp4        1920x1080  4077k , avc1.640028, video only
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hls-326-3                                    mp4        384x216     326k , avc1.42000d, mp4a.40.2
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hls-1069-3                                   mp4        960x540    1069k , avc1.4d001f, mp4a.40.2
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hls-1749-3                                   mp4        1280x720   1749k , avc1.4d001f, mp4a.40.2
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http-2110k-720p-1                            mp4        1280x720   2110k , MP4 container, H264, 698.28MiB
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hls-2750-3                                   mp4        1600x900   2750k , avc1.640028, mp4a.40.2
hls-4077-2                                   mp4        1920x1080  4077k , avc1.640028, mp4a.40.2
hls-4077-3                                   mp4        1920x1080  4077k , avc1.640028, mp4a.40.2 (best)

Downloading the 720p programme from the Linux Mint command line
Code:
youtube-dl -f hls-1749-2 https://player.stv.tv/episode/4376/viewpoint
 
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Thanks @bottletop you are a star - STV Player worked perfectly...

Edited (with a very red face as credited to the wrong person...)
 
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