But despite attempts to rectify the fault many viewers still had problems understanding some of the characters' broad West Country accents and the complaints continued to mount.
The coalition government has promised to rectify this, but in the meantime we can only rely on the Data Protection Act 1998 and article 8 of the European convention on human rights (the right to respect for private and family life), both of which have played an important role in providing some regulation but which have inevitable limitations in this context.
The memo continued: "We would like you to lead a small team to fully define this shortfall in tasking capability [and] identify all the necessary changes needed to rectify it".
Or it could become paralysed, incapable of moving forward, unable to rectify the dire economic situation and restore order, without which no progress is possible.
What they missed that night was the chance to talk about what Tidal would do for non-famous musicians, which is something they've been scrambling to rectify since – see Jack White's comments this week for example.
He said: "We take great pride in our scrummaging and we'll do everything to rectify anything that is wrong.
Yaraka, a community refusing to bow to the blows of its railway line being disused and its school being closed in 2009, has no mobile phone service and would like a tower on nearby Mount Slowcombe to rectify that situation, as well as faster internet than is available under the current interim satellite service for remote communities.
Instead of admonishing or praising Allen, we should ask why there is such a weight of expectation upon something so small, and what we can do to rectify that.
I can rectify this, however, by adding some to the filling.
Journalists who write for a living are fortunate to be supported by editors who rectify 99.9% of our written gaffes, although that didn't stop me once reporting that a man was seen fleeing a crime scene carrying a mobile home.
The unfairness the "Buffet Rule" seeks to rectify would only get worse.
