The Best TV Idents

SP

Spencer 25 April 2005 4:10pm

STN posted:

The Carlton idents would've been OK if they weren't for Carlton!

Fair point - although they got a taste of their own medicine in the end of course.

RU

russnet Founding member 25 April 2005 4:33pm

STN posted:

The Carlton idents would've been OK if they weren't for Carlton! After what they did to so many regional idents.. including Westcountry - who won awards for their 'W' idents. Not bad for a regional broadcaster.

So Granada can get away scot free with what they did then? They may have kept the names whilst they did but they rebranded all the regional idents into the same image with bland announcements (in the Anglia region) Carlton in the Central region had very warm announcements such as "Good Evening and a warm welcome to Carlton on this Tuesday evening" etc .

All Granada did in the end was remove the regional brand all together, at least Carlton kept it going, it would be the greed of the shareholders pockets at Granada that would kill ITV into a station that is best known as Chav-tv thesedays.

CY

cylon6 27 April 2005 9:34pm

I think some of the best idents were when CBBC was called Children's BBC (the Toby Anstis, Josie D'arby era), some of those were fun and much better than the yellow and black crap that Lambie Nairn produced.

SM

smtver 27 April 2005 9:52pm

Fun?FUN? The CBBC 1997 idents were the best ones! And the end idents were some of the best.
THEN:Weird animation,but the music makes it great.
NOW:They think a bug flying down a circled thing is a good ident.Well it's NOT.

CY

cylon6 27 April 2005 9:59pm

smtver posted:

Fun?FUN? The CBBC 1997 idents were the best ones! And the end idents were some of the best.
THEN:Weird animation,but the music makes it great.
NOW:They think a bug flying down a circled thing is a good ident.Well it's NOT.

WRONG!! I think the ones before that were more inventive, I wish I had some to show you. Somebody out there must agree with me.......er......anyone!?!

(April 2005)