Looks real doesn't it? Hmmmm, careful picture examination required here. It's weird because the picture overall is quite distorted, and the figure on the left seems to stand out as if its superimposed. I don't know...
I am CONVINCED that that picture looks VERY FAKE,because there seems to be a jagged white line around the eskimo which looks likes someones gone into Paint Shop Pro,hand cut around another image,stuck it into a current HTV ident and pressed 'Blur' to make it look like it's captured off a television. If that's real,I'll eat my hat!
The picture itself probably is a fake - but I bet anything the concept is correct. It's basically the same as last year's rude robin. So you'll probably be eating your hat!
I think it's real, the eskimo looks identical to the one I saw on an endboard before. Looked very cheap, by the way, which is a shame because ITV's have always been good recently.
I very much doubt the HTV Xmas ident this year will look like that. Far more likely the ident will just be like Carlton's one but with an HTV, with no eskimo superimposed, at the end.
I'm also advised that GMG stations will be getting NO christmas idents this year
Which, coupled with the oh, so uninspiring ITV Xmas trailers on offer, means it's a fistful of bah humbugs all round for Granada this Christmas!