BBC FOUR - Japanese Season

There's currently a Japanese season airing on BBC FOUR, and the channel's presentation has been changed to reflect this.

The theme is figures of speech with each of the idents explaining a different phrase. In between programmes there are longer clips focussing on other idioms.

http://www.theidentgallery.com/bbc4/BBC4-2009-SPEC-JAPAN-BALD-5.jpg . http://www.theidentgallery.com/bbc4/BBC4-2009-SPEC-JAPAN-KNEES-6.jpg

http://www.theidentgallery.com/bbc4/BBC4-2009-SPEC-JAPAN-DAUGHTER-4.jpg . http://www.theidentgallery.com/bbc4/BBC4-2009-SPEC-JAPAN-DAUGHTER-5.jpg

More images and videos here.

Nice idea using the Japanese Kanji for 4 in the BBC Four black box in the second one!.

Thought I'd seen that before somewhere...
http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/channel4/c4_images/1999/c4_trailerjapan_2000.jpg
(from TV Ark)

Years ago BBC Choice did a Japan weekend, that had some great idents

And even somewhere before that...
http://thetvroom.com/images/pool-7/720/main-204.jpg
Though that is a two.

The usage of japanese characters in idents for a japanese season is common practice.

All are very nice uses of Kanji in a designed sense as well!

I remember seeing the trail for this season before the idents actually came into use. I hadn't expected they would adapt the parts of the trail into these 'extended' ident versions, but it's very nice to see.

Interesting that these, it seems, have replaced the normal symbols for now - usually these types of idents are shown only before the relevant programmes.