BBC One

Is it something to do with a comedy promo possibly? Similar to BBC TWO's Thursdays are Funny ? hmmmm....

Thats what I thought but it looks like BBC One are using this for all their comedy shows rather than for one specific day.

Hence for the comedy promos..?

Well BBC1 have got a new comedy hour on Thursday nights so perhaps they're going to push that a bit.

Just spotted a new style endboard used on the trailer for the World Darts Championship. Instead of the red swirls, it ended with the BBC Sport logo animating on (a lot like the BBC Sport ident) with a BBC One box in the bottom left, and the programme info to the right of it. Interestingly the BBC Sport branding was much more prominent than the channel's. Looked quite nice.

Yep these have been appearing over the last few days. Its the new generic BBC Sport endboard for all promotions, to replace the mish mash of designs we had before for the ashes/world cup/rugby etc.

Is the red rubber ring a generic thing BBC One wil use for all comedy shows gregmc? Is a new ident on the way?

Well on thursday 1st january BBC One will return to there main idents. i think will have a new ident because we had helicopter last year. may be the ident will relate to a boat?

The thing is though the people in the know that post here regularly haven't said a thing. But that red rubber thing must be signalling something.

Does anyone know when the BBC Nations will go live on iplayer? I read early next year.

Andy Cartledge has died sadly... TV Room Plus

He was quite the voice of BBC1 for alot of the 1990's.

Oh no. He was one of my favourite voices doing the announcements on BBC Television.