They showed Capes into The 6 O'Clock News tonight. Didn't think we'd see the regular idents again until after the Christmas period.
And into The One Show as well.
I just saw that. And it was the original version of Capes. Something odd must be going on today for the Christmas ident and original style idents to be broadcast on BBC1.
EDIT: I was wrong. It was one of the original short edits of Capes that they used to broadcast from time to time before the news.
Problems during the 10.40pm junction: the next pointer failed to display programme captions followed by the ident going out announcerless, with an abrupt cut to the opening of Would I Lie to You?
Problems after Cranford on BBC Scotland. Announcer faded the sound down to do a v/o which didn't happen the same thing happened going into the news the sound was faded down on the ident but no voice over .
For those that are interested - Breakfast ran a short feature on BBC announcers this morning, featuring Duncan Newmarch and Peter Offer. The piece included a Christmas closedown from 1993, voiced by Peter Offer. It was shown at around 8.30am. Possibly on the iPlayer at some point.
For those that are interested - Breakfast ran a short feature on BBC announcers this morning, featuring Duncan Newmarch and Peter Offer. The piece included a Christmas closedown from 1993, voiced by Peter Offer. It was shown at around 8.30am. Possibly on the iPlayer at some point.
There's a reason why continuity announcers aren't in vision! You can tell I was about to lose my voice. Anyway, Merry Christmas all
I enjoyed that and they included some of your best links Duncan. Peter Offer looked totally different to how I imagined him. And I see announcers have even less control than they used to as they pretty much only control their microphone whereas in the old days they would bring up the symbol/breakdown slides etc. Fascinating stuff.
And I see announcers have even less control than they used to as they pretty much only control their microphone whereas in the old days they would bring up the symbol/breakdown slides etc. Fascinating stuff.
Is that such a bad thing though? It means less to worry about, and more chance to get it right.
...and as for ratings, the Christmas episode of Who is known to get roughly 14 million itself ... AND seeing it's Tennant's finale, I'm sure many non Who fans will tune in this year making it the biggest audience it's ever had.
