Christmas Television 2011

TV3 and 3e have launched their Christmas presentation today. Nothing new for 3e - its reusing the 2009/10 package. I have just seen 1 of the new TV3 Christmas idents and so far it looks to be an excellent package.

Channel 5 began their Christmas presentation at 10.05am today.

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Video here

S4C is festive today too - and with a genuine Christmas theme - the Nativity.

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Very nice. Better than ITV's efforts.

5* and 5usa have also started with their Christmas ident today (they didn't get any last year).

5* has a nice variation on it's usual idents, in a green screen studio:
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And 5USA has it's third variation of it's chritmas ident (it's been used with the previosu two logos):
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Incase you were wondering, here's what it looked like the previous two times:
http://www.thisisfive.co.uk/christmas08/fiveus_2008_ch1_3.jpg
http://www.thisisfive.co.uk/imagesusa2009/usa_identc_03.jpg

There's a pretty one inside a church too, any others?

I've seen five so far - more

Cambriaphiles may wish to tune into S4/C at midnight on New Years Day. I always do.

Christmas E-Stings on E4 (does that E4 symbol share similarities with the 2?!)

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New Year's Eve schedules:

BBC One
18.25 Winter Wipeout
19.25 Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End
22.00 BBC News
22.20 Match of the Day
23.50 The National Lottery Draws
23.50 New Year Live 2011
00.15 Lee Mack Going Out Live

BBC One Scotland
22.15 Reporting Scotland
22.30 Scotland's Comedy Cuts
22.45 Still Game [R]
23.15 Only An Excuse?
23.45 Hogmanay Live 2011
00.45 Lee Mack Going Out Live

BBC Two
19.15 - 23.15 Repeats
23.15 - 01.30 Jools' Annual Hootenanny 2011

ITV1/UTV
18.30 Harry Hill's TV Burp Christmas Special [R]
19.00 Westlife: For the Last TIme [R]
20.00 The Cube
21.00 Brand New It'll Be Alright On the Night
22.00 ITV News
22.15 The Nation's Favourite Bee Gees Song [R]
23.45 ITV News and Countdown to 2012
00.05 That Was 2011: The ITV News Review of the Year [R]

STV
18.30 STV Appeal 2011: Where Your Money Went
19.00 - 22.15 As Network
22.15 A Night with Beyonce
23.25 Scotland's Greatest Album: The Countdown
00.05 Movie: Serenity

Channel 4
21.00 Alan Carr's New Year Spectacular
23.35 - 00.40 Rude Tube: Epic Christmas

Channel 5
19.00 World's Strongest Man
20.00 TV's 50 Greatest Magic Tricks
22.40 - 00.25 Movie: Up the Front

Christmas idents have appeared on Film4 in recent days. One ident shows a person throwing a snowball at another person in slow motion. The logo forms up when face/snowball contact occurs. The second ident shows a red bauble (glass) falling off a tree and shattering on the laminated floor. While some trailers have been given a snowy treatment, others have not.

Possible they've been used in previous years. More4 have in the past had Panto characters introduce their idents - but that's a few years ago.

A shame though C4 themselves do nothing - they used to at least change their breakbumpers, but even some poor Text Santa style effort with regular idents tweaked on the cheap would be better than nothing.