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BBC One 2016 Christmas Presentation

Viewers introduce Christmas Day shows (December 2016)

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GL
Gluben
Steve in Pudsey posted:
james-2001 posted:
Earlier today my mum was telling me how Christmas day TV was always based around the "big film", which was always exciting as it was your first chance to see it since it had been in the cinema several years earlier. Obviously in these days of DVDs, Blu-Rays, Netflix, etc.s, it's become largely irrelevant as people who are interested will likely already have had a copy of the film for a good couple of years and seen it several times before it even makes it to terrestrial TV.


I guess the big Doctor Who episode a few years ago when they put David Tennant on the ident is as close as we get to that now.


It's one of the few character/personality or programme-specific idents I really like, probably because I was a Doctor Who fan. Not so much now though...
FA
fanoftv
In a similar vein I thought that the whole package surrounding Wallace & Gromit worked very well incl. the news ident, red logo and multiple stings.
DM
dmch82
A short article on the BBC website regarding the history of Xmas idents on BBC 1 & 2 with a video montage.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/research/general/xmas-idents
Stuart and Charlie Gough gave kudos
JA
JAS84
Weird that some of the pre 1991 BBC One idents and pre 1997 BBC Two idents had soundtracks, when the regular idents didn't.

No 1960s ones - I assume most of those were either never recorded (live playout) or have been wiped. One of the BBC One idents did have poor quality, as though it was from home video.
BH
BillyH Founding member
They're all from TV Ark I think, including the ones only known to exist on 8mm film.

Odd choice as to what was included and what wasn't - why leave out BBC One's 1999 and 2000 idents? Two of the best of all time!
GL
Gluben
BillyH posted:
They're all from TV Ark I think, including the ones only known to exist on 8mm film.

Odd choice as to what was included and what wasn't - why leave out BBC One's 1999 and 2000 idents? Two of the best of all time!


Because I like them. That seems to be the reason why everything I like is taken away or airbrushed from history.
RE
Rex
BBC TWO's efforts in the 90s and in the early 2000s were great - sadly it seems to be repeating the same 2011 Christmas idents. I wouldn't mind it for a year or two, but for five years running...
Same goes for ONE, it's produced some excellent Christmas idents but recent efforts (the red curtain, Sprout Boy and this year's set) are ranging from poor to lacklustre.
LL
Larry the Loafer
MetalGearRex posted:
BBC TWO's efforts in the 90s and in the early 2000s were great - sadly it seems to be repeating the same 2011 Christmas idents. I wouldn't mind it for a year or two, but for five years running...


I wouldn't mind if it wasn't for the fact that they keep sodomising the soundtracks.
RE
Rex
Larry the Loafer posted:
MetalGearRex posted:
BBC TWO's efforts in the 90s and in the early 2000s were great - sadly it seems to be repeating the same 2011 Christmas idents. I wouldn't mind it for a year or two, but for five years running...


I wouldn't mind if it wasn't for the fact that they keep sodomising the soundtracks.

They've done it for two years in a row - last year and this year. If the annoying 'two' carol singers weren't bad enough, a Barry White imitation on LSD is just as strenuous.
ST
Stuart
dmch82 posted:
A short article on the BBC website regarding the history of Xmas idents on BBC 1 & 2 with a video montage.

What a lovely montage.


I have to admire the ingenuity of some of the earliest BBC1/2 mechanical models in that collection. They were quite inspired for their time.

BBC1 dipped to a low during the 'rhythm & dance' era, and then had some good CGI ones afterwards.

I liked most of the BBC2 idents, apart from that strange 'TWO' in a block of ice, which had a soundtrack making me think of a sting for a US daytime soap, for some reason (at 3:42). Shocked

Nice find though. Thanks! Very Happy
BR
Brekkie
BillyH posted:
Odd choice as to what was included and what wasn't - why leave out BBC One's 1999 and 2000 idents? Two of the best of all time!

Probably don't want to show up this years "effort". Also embarrassing they can't get the aspect ratios right on many of them.
JB
JexedBack
"Oneness" better get used to it. And not just for January...

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