BBC Two: new idents from Sunday 18 February

They're lovely. To me, they look more-or-less like what I'd imagine the "turquoise 2's" might well have gradually evolved into by now anyway, if they had continued beyond 2001.

Therefore, it's effectively as if the (IMHO inferior) yellow and purple CGI idents had never happened. Which is a good thing, IMHO.
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As many are saying, the retention of a "boxed" logo is surprising, given that BBC One has moved away from the "box"

It'll be very inconsistent for three of the BBC's four numbered channels to have box logos, whilst only one doesn't

Perhaps the only way to make BBC Two's retention of the "box" seem justifiable, would be for BBC Three & BBC Four to change their respective idents to neither "boxed", nor centralised [ B ][ B ][C ] one style either...

- i.e. if each BBC channel has a totally different way of presenting the logo. After all, this has worked for the "Channel 4" family of channels - each of which has a completely dissimilar style of "4" from each other, of course.

Ironically, such totally diversity across the four numbered BBC channels would actually look more "consistant" (i.e. a "diversity is a type of uniformity" irony) than the current mess of three "boxed" channels versus only one not-"boxed" channel, IMHO

But it does seem to say there are 14 new idents, not 8 like BBC One...

Probably blaming it on immigration or Political Correctness Gone Mad™.

Seven themes, 14 idents = seven "real" idents and seven variants (probably just long/short, although there might be a Bounce Normal/Bounce Sombre-style variant or two or different views through the 2s, I suppose).

And for the benefit of anyone who doesn't know, Mediawatch-UK = Mary Whitehouse's lot. Yes, they're still going....

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Love the idents but the box is a little odd - it's not really needed, however it looks good in teal and semi-transparent.

roll on Sunday!

The ironic thing is when the BBC spend thousands on lavish promos such as the talking heads or the cliffhanger one it's organisations like MediaWatch which get them banned!


Maybe next time they should just resort to filming a piece of paper pinned to a door with "BBC TWO" scrawled across it - and then let's see how they react!

The comments on there are stupid and typical of a Sun reader as well, the Jonathon Ross one makes me laugh, regarding the Queen's English

I don't know why these papers make a big deal out of it, as if their owners don't spend vast amounts of money on what other people would consider a load of rubbish

Well of course there's the Murdoch factor as well. Something tells me they wouldn't run a story on Sky spending lots of money on new idents whilst regularly hiking up subscriptions.

It's not like you're forced to subscribe to Sky, though.

That's not what they said in Whitehaven.

I have no idea to what you are referring.

Anyway! They look alright, agree with most comments about the box logo, I thought this would have been ditched in favour of something a bit more exciting. I've never been a fan of the dull yellow idents, personally, so this revamp can't come soon enough.

Whitehaven is the first part of the Border region that'll ahve analogue turned off. The Sly marketting plebs essentially tried to use this to con little old ladies into buying sky as they had no other option available.