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Matt Founding member 12 February 2010 12:24pm

Announcers on Twitter

Obviously not a continuity announcer, but worthy of a mention I thought:
http://twitter.com/peterdickson of E4/X Factor Fame...

http://twitter.com/LondonVoiceover does various voiceovers, but I believe does continuity on the History Channel etc

Last edited by Matt on 12 February 2010 2:34pm

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Matt Founding member 14 January 2010 10:19am

Living TV's Most Haunted Live switch's to BBC Parliament.

deejay posted:

THis is a bit odd - do Red Bee handle playout for Living now? Even if they do, it doesn't really explain how Parliament got onto the feed instead of the OB as AFAIK Reb Bee have almost nothing to do with Parliament's playout. I presume this was down to a switching failure at somewhere like BT Tower...

I think Red Bee have taken over Parliament now haven't they? I know they used to use Millbank Studios/ITV, but I'm sure that switched some time back...

Impressed by the live continuity though. I had assumed that Living continuity was pre-recorded. I half expected a another Virgin or BBC announcer to mention something!

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Matt Founding member 10 January 2010 7:36pm

Heroes promos (or lack of?)

davidhorman posted:

Ouch

I'll get me coat.

No, you're right. I don't watch much BBC myself, and I only found out today (Sunday) when I happened to stumble on to iPlayer. Whether it's doing well or not - they're still paying to import it and should be promoting it!

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Matt Founding member 4 January 2010 11:41pm

Sky's Branding

jay posted:

To be honest, I find the whole current Sky Movies batch of idents to be uninspiring horrible and bland. The grandure (sp?) that once existed on the Premier channels has been completely wiped out.

Agree. They all seem a bit... lazy? Is that the right word? I like the idea, but some of them could have better.

I have to say that the rarely seen Sky HD ident, which usually accompanied HD movies via Anytime did attempt to reintroduce the grandeur. It has quite an, for want of a better word, epic-ness about it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6pOhmPzzJc

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Matt Founding member 3 January 2010 11:44pm

Sky's Branding

mdtauk posted:

jay posted:

I do think the new logo works very well, however, this will always be the ultimate ident for me (I wish they'd even bring it back)...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1bs89c0zTA

I am so surprised that they kept the idea of a shiney lady when the 2001/2 new look came in, all be it silver. But it is not a very adaptable brand, which is what is nice about the coloured spotlights. Now I saw The Clone Wars on Sky Movies Family, and that special ident has been updated with the new logo.

The adaptation of the spotlights ident with the new logo, is done better than the german one IMO.

Sorry to return to an old point, but I agree with Jay that the 1998 is one of the all time greatest idents. You're right in saying it was odd they continued the shiny ladies into a look beyond the year 2000 - but the graphics on the 2002 idents were beautiful:

http://www.youtube.com/v/SVP2GZeGZQw

To this day, I still love the elasticity of particles at the end. Still makes my spine tingle!

mdta, you're right though - it's quite a difficult thing to carry through into a new look. It is a shame though, as the current Premiere ident is terrible (at least in comparison to the other channels)

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Matt Founding member 27 October 2009 6:59am