I do know for a fact the episodes won’t be in their original form
A lot of the early episodes after the fire controversy had their original masters altered to remove fire references
It’s also possible Judge himself won’t allow certain moments to be seen again or entire episodes
Yeah. We can only speculate on exactly how things exist in the archive, what has usable copies, etc. Comedians has been broadcast uncensored in later years on VH1, so who knows.
As for Mike, you’re right that he is perhaps the biggest critic of the early years, before the characters were well established. He requested they stop airing some, and obviously left a ton off the DVDs. I recall his stance is that a third are great, a third are ok, and a third are awful.
But if Paramount are showing 200+, his cut list will be much shorter than ever. At least for whole episodes.
We know very little about Paramount’s plans, but there should definitely be some upgrades, and there will definitely be a lot of work still to do.