Granada Reports

Lucy has got to be the longest running female reader on ITV now, probably third longest after Bob Warman and Fred Dineage.

Didn't see the programme earlier, so I'll have to check it online. As I've said before I've met her in person and she is quite lovely to speak to, even got her autograph somewhere.

She might be neck and neck with Pam Royle from Tyne Tees (& Border). Going from wiki anyway...

Check out 21 years of Lucy on Youtube:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOb1GmzMpLw

Well we finally have it, Granada have adopted the Yellow Peril look.

I must say from what I have seen so far it looks good.

Seeing the other regions over the last week and a half and then Garnada's teal look, I do prefer the yellow look.

Let's see what happenes on Granada Reports, tonight.

They do need to change the Teal "News" look on the clock during the GMTV updates.

I suspect the teal clock on GMTV will probably be fixed sometime after they finish all the other regions.

Some pictures from the GMTV bulletins:-

http://www.tvwhirl.co.uk/junk/itvgranadanews2009.jpg

http://www.tvwhirl.co.uk/junk/itvgranadanews2009b.jpg

http://www.tvwhirl.co.uk/junk/itvgranadanews2009c.jpg

I do prefer the yellow lighting in the studio too over the teal look, it's just the titles in all the regions which are horrible.

And the new Yellow titles, from the afternoon bulletin.

http://www.tvwhirl.co.uk/tesnews/itvnewsgranada2009.mp4

Yes, I do occasionally do some work at work too...

I was going to say last night that the News at Ten bulletin was in the newsroom, and there was a hint at "you may notice some changes tomorrow" at the end.

Too bad the internet was down!

The shade of yellow (well, certainly on the lunchtime clip above) is slightly more tolerable than I was expecting, but I'll reserve full judgement till I've seen the rest of the set on the 6pm bulletin. The titles are truly terrible - the 2001-03 titles (with a new endboard) would have fitted in with the new colour scheme well (having said that, I've just watched them back and there was perhaps a little bit too much blue...)

Why they've kept that awfully dated music I'll never know. Fortunately, I watch North West Tonight.

The opening titles from the evening news (bye bye bandwidth):-

http://www.tvwhirl.co.uk/tesnews/itvnewsgranadareports2009.mp4


More video coverage of the new look Granada Reports/News (including titles, stings, weather and promo) can be found at the bottom of the page I've been tracking this on round here:-

http://www.tvwhirl.co.uk/itvnewsrebrand2009.html

You'd have thought they'd have waited a day and launched the new look to coincide with DSO2 and the brave new digital only world.

That is what I thought they were going to do.

There was no mention of the new-look either, well new colours.

I do like it, the only thing I say do different is the music, use the national music as it sounds good and use something different for the weather too.