It just feels as though something is missing for me. Despite the 'plain and simple' idents in 2013, the soundtrack was very catchy and magical. A decent soundtrack added to this year's idents could make the world of difference.
SO that is the new ident, so one has to wonder why Scotland went for this better ident to start off with?
Well my Scottish friends are always telling me that nothing says Christmas quite like a bunch of English accents in a pub. Just a guess - but I'm sure the choice of Christmas Tree ident for the launch of the Christmas campaign by BBC Scotland was quite deliberate.
It's possible they've simply used this one again as it's a pub-based ident which is an appropriate link into MOTD. I'm only guessing, mind. There's still a faint possibility of more idents on the way- however, to hold back a new one until 23:35 would be unusual. I've a sneaky suspicion that could well be our lot!
They might reflect what viewers are doing on the 25th but they don't reflect what's happening on the 4th.
Gosh, you must've really hated Father Christmas delivering all those Christmas presents from his balloon on the wrong days back in 2000.
I think those launched closer to Christmas. The problem with launching idents on December 1st/first week of December is that Christmas idents aren't introducing a Christmas schedule, especially when you have programmes like Panorama still on.