I happened to see the start of "Rugrats" just now, and the people at CBBC put a fuc**** big, moving, "NEW" dog over the opening sequence. You really have to see it to realise just how phenomenally bad it was... but in the meantime, you'll just have to trust me. And the programme has had the top and bottom hacked off as well. Is it Children's BBC or Cretins' BBC?
What we need is a change in the law so that people who do such things can be beaten to death with any weapon of my choosing.
I totally agree. I haven't seen it yet. Did it have anything on it.
I think if they want to do that they should do something like Nick, but have a different shaped bug to suit the programme. Like a world, or rocket or plant. (bad examples I know)
It was the word "NEW", very big, and bouncing up and down. Another extraordinary irritant from the people who brought you the CBBC Channel Study Week DOG.
Another example of all this clutter on the screen nowadays. It reminds me of something that happened recently while watching 'Dr Zitbag's Transylvanian Pet Shop' on Nickelodeon. About 5 minutes before the end of an episode the picture shrunk horizontally into a quarter of the screen, and the space left portrayed a promo for the new Spiderman series coming soon, in full sound,
while the programme was still playing.
When this finished it was replaced by a black screen while the programme, still shrunk, played on. Volume has now back but it was extremely low. This went on for about 45 seconds until the programme area got a bit bigger, it now occupied about a third of the screen. The black space now said 'NEXT Saved By The Bell: The College Years' and the sound was back. Eventually the picture filled the screen again too, so I could savor the last few seconds of it. Everyone seemed to be in a big chase sequence. Why? I didn't know, it was all explained while that darn promo was being played!
Do people really care that much at all that a programme is "All New"? Even if it is, it doesn't really need to be advertised like it is. Why is it considered so imporatant these days, or are they proud that for once, what they are showign isn't a repeat. I found thr stupidest "NEW" DOG beignt he one on Plus- saying a 25 year old "Dukes of Hazzard" epsiode was new just seemed silly to me- thankfully at least they've had the sense to drop it. I also hope channels drop their silly tendancy of telling us how many days there is until some programme- UK Gold really pissed me off with their "Carry on bank holiday weekend".
16 days is nothing. Disney Channel have been trailing the kids awards for the past month. Every two minutes or so the dog turns green and says 'kids awards' then changes to '(number of days) to go' then back to the normal dog.
New my foot! It's the 1960s one! Fox Kids have the right to the more recent stuff as Saban (and now Buena Vista, who like Fox Kids are owned by Disney) makes Marvel programmes.
Well, to be fair the most important part of a programme for me is the actual content, not the titles or the credits.
By shrinking the credits it means that the presenters get more time to talk to the audience and set competitions etc.
You'll notice that most CBBC produced programmes have their credits over to one side of the screen, meaning that the other half can be used to go back to the CBBC studio and trail what's coming up. This allows the credits to remain full sized.
Well, to be fair the most important part of a programme for me is the actual content, not the titles or the credits.
By shrinking the credits it means that the presenters get more time to talk to the audience and set competitions etc.
You'll notice that most CBBC produced programmes have their credits over to one side of the screen, meaning that the other half can be used to go back to the CBBC studio and trail what's coming up. This allows the credits to remain full sized.
indeed they do. Then they go and shrink them down into the tiny box instead of using the design properly.
Well, to be fair the most important part of a programme for me is the actual content, not the titles or the credits.
By shrinking the credits it means that the presenters get more time to talk to the audience and set competitions etc.
You'll notice that most CBBC produced programmes have their credits over to one side of the screen, meaning that the other half can be used to go back to the CBBC studio and trail what's coming up. This allows the credits to remain full sized.
indeed they do. Then they go and shrink them down into the tiny box instead of using the design properly.
Does it matter? I don't think many people on the production teams mind that much to be fair...