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cylon6
I very much agree Spencer. For me the current ITV idents would be awful without the variations of the tune to accompany them. In my opinion both the BBC One 2009 refresh (the ones that were altered) and Channel 4’s original 80s idents felt different when the music was changed.


Absolutely. The original BBC One Helicopters ident music was absolutely beautiful - that choral solo was haunting and cinematic with a bleakness appropriate to a remote lighthouse.

What replaced it was so mundane, it might as well have accompanied footage of an EasyJet flight touching down at Luton.

The BBC1 Circle idents were excellent until they butchered them and gave them horrible new music. BUT! The updated Helicopter ident had a great bit of music. It mimicked rotor blades and it became even better at the end. Lovely stuff!
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cylon6
Oh yes, those unused ITV idents had wonderful scores.

The issue with the current channel 4 Ident music is that it’s the same variant for each. If they’d have created different versions we may not have that problem.

The main problem with the Channel 4 idents is the expense so you csn only make a few at a time and you just see the same 4 over and over again. Best to start with around 10 then adding a couple each year. My ideal is always launching with enough so that you can have a different ident for every junction during the day. I liked that the BBC1 balloon and new ‘itv’ started with so many.
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A former member
So why doesn't channel 5 who only have five idents have the same problems?
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Lou Scannon
So why doesn't channel 5 who only have five idents have the same problems?


Because hardly anybody watches Channel 5?! Wink Laughing
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Caly123
New breakdown slide based on Revelatory during Inside No. 9 on Duncan Newarch's Twitter: [tweet Check out @DuncanNewmarch’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/DuncanNewmarch/status/1056930823713288194?s=09]
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cylon6
Okay this was odd. Go to the BBC iPlayer and look at at the London region before the athletics at 1.00pm. They had the blobs with the black & white spiral ident’s music. Was there a mistake at Network. The thing is they went together very well. But.......

BRING BACK THE SPIRAL!
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VMPhil
Where does the BBC website source trail clips from? This one's from BBC Two Scotland: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06nzq6s
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cylon6
Where does the BBC website source trail clips from? This one's from BBC Two Scotland: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06nzq6s

I saw zero trailers for 100 Days To Victory on Network. Only Scotland ran it because but was there's and they showed it first on Tuesday's at 9pm. Ridiculous to show it there then again at 8pm on Thursday with the rest of the nations and regions.
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cylon6
Some of these new continuity announcers are iffy. I'll leave it there.
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Googly Eyes ident added this morning for CBBC on TWO

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lukeshep
Googly Eyes ident added this morning for CBBC on TWO

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Reminds me of the 2002-2005 CBBC “Blob” idents.
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So thats 18 idents, but has anyone else notice the block idents has gone walkies...

Is it one in one out?

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