Hope it's worth the wait Joe. After all we've only been waiting since the last Christmas Ident for a new one!! How quickly Christmas comes around. Incidentally Joe, you are one of the few people who has never been insulting to me in this forum. For that cheers!! A very merry Christmas to you.
Thank you, and a merry Christmas to you as well Steve. I bet you're thrilled that the new ident is going to debut on your birthday. We'll find out soon whether or not it will be a nice present for you, fingers crossed!
Anyway, have a great day on Saturday Steve!
Thanks Joe, but I'll be 37 on Monday December 19th!!!
Really! My deepest apologies Steve. I could have sworn you said it was the 17th. It's my age you see. I'm 43 apparently!
Anyway, Happy Birthday for Monday then and once again, er sorry!
Hey Joe! Don't worry about getting a silly little date wrong! I'm flattered you even remembered it was nearly my birthday anyway! If it is your age....I'm worried. I've only 6 years to go until I'm 43! I still mean it when I wish you a merry Christmas though! (Ah bless...age is a cruel thing!)
The excellent Charile Brooker's Screen Burn in the Guardian this weekend was about how Christmas always officially begins when the BBC 1 Xmas ident starts going out. His suggestions for ths year include Phil Mitchell fighting a reindeer and a claymation baby Jesus playing swingball with Pingu.
Quote:
Whichever yuletide option the BBC decides to go with, chances are it'll be a) as slick and sophisticated as being fellated by a butler and b) virtually omipresent. Because that's the way all such TV "furniture" seems to be heading. Gone are the days of the simple, garish BBC1 "revolving globe" or the Thames TV "London skyline risng from the waters" ident, chunks of TV ephemera which look laughably amaturish compared to their modern equivalents, yet possess approximately 78 times the charm. Where once a simple station logo would suffice, we're now offered polished widescreen mini-movies, smug optical haikus and worst of all, intrusive little pop-ups telling us what we're currently watching, what's coming next, what we should think about it and what docile pricks we are for sitting there and withstanding it all.
And in case mere visual spam isn't enough, in recent years all continuity announcers have been trained to butt in and start bellowing over the end titles of your favourite programme within 0.5 nanoseconds of the first end credit appearing.
He then goes on to bemoan how Channel 4's end credit rules tell producers exactly what to do, meaning the branding now dictates the content of programmes.
An ITV2 Christmas promo has just run on ITV1, very nice and festive. Looks like they are pushing movies on the channel this Christmas, even though they are all repeats.
shall upload vid tomorrow