Original sentence: Fortunately for some fans, who consider the episode to be rather unfunny, the UK general election, 1979 intervened, and the show was pulled as being too political.The first series was sufficiently popular to merit a second series
Edited sentence: Fortunately, since the episode is generally considered to be rather unfunny, the UK general election, 1979 intervened, and the show was pulled as being too political.The first series was sifficiently popular to merit a second series.The show's name derived from its original broadcast schedule, on BBC2 opposite the main Nine O'Clock News on BBC1