Blockbusters

This sounds like an interesting idea. Let's hope it was made at the same time as the programme and not last week with this Shane character standing against a green screen.

What would such an idea be called?

Blockbusters Uncovered
Blockbusters Revealed
Blockbusters with Shane
Blockbusters Reloaded
Blockbusters Unblocked
Blockbusters Extra
Blockbusters: Behind the blocks
Blockbusters: Non-stop drop
Blockbusters 24/7
Blockbusters: What is Simon Mayo really like?

It'll be Blockbusters Confidential.

A comment i read on youtube recently said that Paul Boross and Henry Marsh did the 1997 one.

I don'tbelive there did.

When you listen carefully to the new theme tune, you can tell they have shortened it from a longer recording. So it's pretty inevitable that a longer full version exists that may be used once a week, but wasn't wanted to be uploaded in clean form.

It would be easy to create a clean copy by cut n shut with postage version and ripping opening long titles.

It would I agree, but most people probably couldn't be bothered, it's only people on forums like this that would think of it.

I'm thinking Monday editions or Friday editions could use an extended version, with the shorter cut used the rest of the week. Either way, we'll have an edit after the very first airing of it.

Or maybe challenge will put it on its website.

The 1997 BBC theme wasn't even the same tune as the original, it was a very, very, bad sound-alike. Presumably the BBC wasn't bothered with buying the rights to the Ed Welch theme.

Challenge [TV] are airing Blockbusters idents and breakbumpers now. Simon Mayo also spoke over the end credits of Interceptor last night too.

He did - felt weird as he was followed up immediately by a CA. Reminded me of the early day of Channel 5 when they'd occasionally have an announcement featuring 2 live CAs at handover time.

Challenge 'Blockbusters' ident

http://www.theidentgallery.com/challenge/2011/CHALLENGE-2012-ID-BLOCKBUSTERS-1-1.jpg

Video here