Christmas Telly 2008

Well, As the sub-heading states there are indeed *9* days until hirstmas. Aren't we all looking foward to it eh?

Yes, that magical time of the year where you have to dust of those 25 year old Chirstmas Tree decorations, put up those outside rope lights and get hyped up about yet another helping of Eastenders Christmas Special.

But we all know that every year broadcasters bring out a set of festive idents to remined us all that it's nearly christmas. Last year from the BBC We had ice skating penguins and a Killer Snowball. ITV gave us err.. um.. ohh yeah Nothing! apart from some tinkerbell shaped star flying over some generic stings and captions. ITV Were obviously strapped for cash last Christmas.

Do we not all think though that Christmas is over exagerated on the telly these days?

How many of our youngsters these days are going to sit down infront of the TV with a tin of biscuits watching the Queens speech and then Carry on Camping? Honestly.. There all going to be out behined a skip wth a bottle of white lighting and 5 grammes of cannabins. init.. brapp init blad..


So then, Who's going to be the first to dare show a Christmas Ident and has anybody got any sneak previes as to what the idents of any broadcaster may look like?

It would be nice to see Channel 4 make an effort this year, but I don't think it's going to happen.

How about a channel 4 xmas tree?

at least STV had some um flashing lights on the S

don't tell the kids it's nearly Chritsmas, I don't want to spend the next 80 days at work with all the children getting high because they think it's Christmas tomorrow

I'd imagine the credit crunch will be the excuse for recycled idents all round this year - I can see only Five having something new.


It's far from over exaggerated though nowadays compared to a decade or so ago - with the exception of possibly Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day in recent years it's felt pretty much like business as usual throughout Christmas Week. Long gone are the days of something special on every night over the period - their tends to be one highlight and that's it now.

Woah.....because we really need a thread for Christmas telle in October.

Better then having one in July.

Scrooge!

I fail to be impressed by the BBC1 idents nowadays. Everything went downhill with the 'Dancers' idents. Snowball and Penguins are even worse. Yes, the idea is 'people coming together' - we get the message. But there's nothing dazzling or magical about them. They're just bland and flat.

On advertising, I hope Coca-Cola have seen the light and decided to remake the Trucks adverts in widescreen. I applauded them last year for making some effort by repeating the old 4:3 ads, but they were too short, a bit lackluster and were only broadcast for a couple of weeks in November, followed by the Scary Santa one in December.

But still stupid.

Worse than having one in December.

I do think Snowball was better than any Christmas ident the dancers served up, but I think what holds them back nowadays it the insistence they must fit in with the "brand" - when in the past Christmas idents generally broke away from the norm.

Blimey, this is the first year in three were we have'nt been discussing xmas in the summer