BBC Four

Looks like the missing ident is still coming....

And why not try one of ⁦@BBCFOUR⁩’s new ‘satisfying’ idents... singular deliciousness for all! Let me know if you’d like more... 😋 pic.twitter.com/r2GGoTr3z3

— Cassian Harrison (@cassianh) April 1, 2019

Another new ident is coming

We’ve done some fabulously noir-ish idents for our Saturday night dramas... here’s a first peek... ⁦@BBCFOUR⁩ pic.twitter.com/IxbTmv7zEO

— Cassian Harrison (@cassianh) April 1, 2019

Why not use the budget on a new series of Time Shift? - I presume this is axed?

It would appear so, as the last new episodes were shown in 2017.


Based on the information on the programme website, it also looks like the last 2 episodes of Series 17 from 2017 were never broadcast.

The last ident finally come out last night https://tvhome.co.uk/bbc-four/2019/04/07/0025 Along with the new drama ident.

I spotted they've continued using the paint on speaker ident several times too lately. Although given how fairly generic and completely unreferencing to the web the batch of 'satisfying' idents were, it's not a huge surprise they've seen continued use well past the original Born Digital season.

With the way budgets are these days, I suspect this is the closest BBC Four will ever get to a rebrand now - by officially latching things onto a season of something instead (does it then count on a spreadsheet somewhere as general promotion rather than rebranding spend perhaps? ) and then just 'keeping' them afterwards.

Happy Birthday OU, which was shown last night, was credited as a "BBC ENGLAND" production.

I've seen BBC English Regions on numerous occasions, but don't think I've seen BBC England before.

It doesn’t warrant a new thread so i’ll plonk it here.

Did anyone catch Planespotting Live tonight? A live special for the next three nights, has real vibes of “*insert here*-watch” programmes where they'd cut away to show live landings and take offs at their base at East Midlands Airport.

And hosted by the very unlikely duo of Peter Snow and Andi Peters.

It’s the kind of mad programming you would have expected to see as Summer filler on BBC1 in the 80’s/early 90’s.

Just watched tonight's programme, I like it!

They already did that! Peter Snow with Hannah Fry who seemed to be on the channel constantly a couple of years ago.

I didn't mind Peters, I think he and the rest of the team are clearly so enthused about the subject matter, that that kind of overrides everything else!

Showing Test Card F in that slot would have probably got slightly more viewers, but that said Mrs Markymark looked up from her phone and was quietly interested too, (I still have a pile of Moonlanding progs to watch, which will have to wait until she's out having her hair done)

Edit: 7:15. I'm on a train now, and the bloke in front of me is watching last night's prog on his phone!

The BBC seemed to go through a phase of doing '... watch' programmes around that time: as well as Railwatch, there was Hospital Watch, and I'm sure Airport Watch.

Probably one of the reasons that Ghostwatch was so convincing to some, it was the most recent in a line of similar programmes