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Great Movie Mistakes, Great Movie Mistakes 2, Songs of Praise Uncut, ..programmes start at 7:00pm. (May 2011)

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dosxuk
Andrew Wood posted:
Chewy posted:
"Then" - does that mean they have dropped the silly "Next" that makes it sound like the programme is coming on after the break?


I think that happened a few weeks ago, thankfully. Now if only FX could do the same - they use 'Next' to announce the programme that's about to start in the ident introducing it. As I believe most here would agree, 'Next' is always the programme that follows the one that's on - or just starting.


When I hear "Next on Three, it's Family Guy", I take that to mean that the programme about to start is Family Guy. When they then go "But first, here's Eastenders", it just sounds odd.
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A former member
I think it's down to which channel you're watching: for example on ITV, they used to have 'Next' animations before a commercial break to tell you the programme that's on after that break.

On BBC Three, though, as there's no break as such and the 'Now, Next, Later' graphic immediately precedes a programme, 'Next' refers to the programme after the one that's about to start - so 'Next So-and-so, but first this' seems right.

ITV1 - http://www.theidentgallery.com/player.php?id=ITV1-2006-NEXT
BBC Three - http://www.theidentgallery.com/player.php?id=BBC3-2007-XMAS-NEXT-1

FX manage to get 'Now' and 'Next' for the same programme in one ident - http://tiggo.at/?CF0H2
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paul_hadley
They really need to change the BBC Three DOG to white/grey like the other channels - no need for it to have that horrible pink.
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BBC3 Tweaks:

http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/9725/cap2011072621h58m33s13.jpg

http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/4409/cap2011072622h01m55s231.jpg

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^^^ More on previous page Wink
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dbl
Oops, sorry didn't realise Razz
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Don't worry - for a presentation site, you can't have enough screen caps of, well, presentation!
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dbl
They've seem to have reverted back to the previous design now.
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thegeek Founding member
Ariel finally noticed it was 60 Seconds' birthday, and have run a little feature about it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/14374194

(Featuring a pic of NickyS, no doubt getting weary at the photographer telling him "just one more shot", then proceeding to take about fifty more)
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paul_hadley
Songs of Praise Uncut Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing

Did I miss something?

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fanoftv
Did anyone catch today's points of view. It was an interview special with Zai Bennett who didn't really answer the viewers questions imo. What did you think?

For example, two questions related to the 'next/later' programme strap, and the channel DOG, both of which he dismissed saying that the target audience for the channel are used to seeing straps and dogs on other networks. It didn't really answer why BBC Three specifically do it, instead it is an answer similar to 'they do it, and that's why we do it too'.
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dvboy
fanoftv posted:
Did anyone catch today's points of view. It was an interview special with Zai Bennett who didn't really answer the viewers questions imo. What did you think?

For example, two questions related to the 'next/later' programme strap, and the channel DOG, both of which he dismissed saying that the target audience for the channel are used to seeing straps and dogs on other networks. It didn't really answer why BBC Three specifically do it, instead it is an answer similar to 'they do it, and that's why we do it too'.


I thought so too, basically he's referring to ITV2 and E4. Yes they do it, but they have a commercial interest to retain their audience. And they don't do it half as horribly as BBC Three does.

I also found it astonishing he'd never seen Click (thought I was perplexed they put that question to him, as it's a programme that would be more suited to BBC Two).

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