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Of course, the underlying question is: if the BBC have re-used a Christmas ident just 7 weeks after Christmas, and considering that they re-used 2006's Christmas Snowball ident, what, in all honesty, can we expect in December? Will we have another revisit from Snowball alongside the Penguin version, or will they have a brand new singular ident that will be broadcast throughout the entire festive season? While I realise it is only February, with the annual budgets constantly being discussed, is the Penguin re-use a sign that the BBC have now become so self righteousness and governed by unintelligible marketing people who think that the rehash of idents each Christmas is the best way to save money. Personally, I think the re-use of Xmas idents will make Christmas less interesting and very samey, meaning people no longer have a desire to tune in over Christmas. ITV over the past 3 years have had abysmal ratings at Christmas. Is that due to no effort or no special programming, or is it due to the fact that a BBC1 Xmas schedule actually feels special and Christmassey when you watch it?

Only 10 months until we find out! However, for those who want a new Christmas ident, the best thing to do is write NOW and let the marketing board know how important Christmas Idents are.

Any space in that stormy teacup for some sugar?

Perhaps just one lump Gavin! But low calorie.

I think that if they lost the tree and kept the original music it would be fine.

That was actually used during the summer , presumably to concoct images of ice cubes to the hot, sweaty, melting viewers. I think it worked better during the summer.

A '2' in an ice cube doesn't seem very Christmassey to me and neither do penguins which is why I think they could be played at any other time of the year. I just saw the new Penguins ident for the first time on my TV rather than a you tube clip and I think it works really well. You also see some skaters and penguins skating over the logo. It looks rather good.

Does anybody know for certain if it was brought back because people liked it so much?

I just read some comments on You Tube about the Christmas ident from a person that was in it. And it wasn't only the penguins that weren't there, apparently the tree wasn't either. So it would have been very easy for them to tweak it and show it throughout the year.

Really? It looked so realistic.

Wait, what? The tree I can understand but the penguins weren't real? Oh, next thing you'll tell me is that the hippos weren't either...

No, you fool, they just filmed the two on separate days. Health and safety wouldn't let penguins and skaters be on the rink at the same time. So they filmed the penguins first, mapped where they skated on a high-end computer, then told the skaters where to go the next day.

The tree, as you have observantly pointed out, was CGI.

I had no idea the tree was fake! That's really surprised me!

But I think you're all mistaken, the penguins WERE real but the skaters and the ice rink were all created by computer. You can tell because the texture mapping is so unrealistic.

NO!

The scater are real, the rink real, the penwins are computer genrated.
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p.s. sorry 4 spelling