And any "average viewers" who might care enough to attribute names to them would make similarly straightforward, logical choices, such as "Rings", "Slinky", "Furry Thing", and "Paint".
Agreed, except for BBC2. As well as showing all previous years' idents, they usually add a new one to the mix.
There's only been two years of the current idents though, so not much of a precedent. Hope I'm wrong - if they're determined to run it for a month again, they need another news-safe ident otherwise it's just Glamourous over and over. (Not that I'm complaining much, all their Christmas idents are stunning)
I only say that because they started doing it with the Personality 2s in 2001, 2002 and 2003. In 2004, they just re-used the previous three and didn’t add a new one. Then 2005 was a single new ident as before, then 2006 just re-used that one. It was worse in 2007 when they did just recycle the same ident each year (and the 2011 one later). Even worse when they dubbed it with Christmas “carols”.
But yes, the Curve idents are so brilliant that I actually don’t mind re-using them and adding a new one, so long as they’re consistent and don’t just decide not to add a new ident one year.
I personally don't expect to see a new Christmas ident on BBC Two this year. There are already 4 festive versions of the Curve idents, one of which (the tinsel ident) only made its debut last year. If they did decide to add a new one, that'd be five in total- and I can't recall there being a time when they've ever shown 5 different idents over one Christmas season.
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For a show so recent it's a bit astonishing that there's only four main cast members still alive, one of which has advanced dementia and is confined to a nursing home. It's similar to about three quarters of the
Dad's Army
cast passing away in the five or six years after the last episode aired.