We were talking a while ago about there being no advertisment of M.O.M. during midweek CiTV. Did anybody else see the new ad for it today after Play the Game, I think it was? It's basicly done in the same format as the previous ones except they've taken out Michael, and they still called it 'Ministry Of Mayhem' on it, I think. So that's probably the reason why we hadn't seen it advertised, because they were making a new one. Though of course that doesn't mean there deffinatly won't be any changes....
Yep I noticed this, and then also noticed that Tim went and called it MoM anyway. It could just be that they've used the voice over off the old advert or they're just going to be calling it every name under the sun.
It's also good this week to see, well hear that Tim's microphone seems to be fixed and that he seems to be doing wierd accents again.
I like Tim's accents,especially yorkshire accent,but i think i prefered 2003 Tim! And the voiceover tim still hasn't done geordie!
You liked the 2003 Tim?
Although it was his first presenting job and he was only 17 at the time, he wasn't the best choice they could have made when you look at Stephen, Tom, Michael and even David, he wasn't anything great. It was wierd how they got rid of David and Leigh, though the Leah and Michael twosome in the end was great.
Has anybody also noticed that they've cut down the amount of ad breaks? Before Christmas they had an ad break at 3.30, then again around 3.45 then continuing to do this every 10-15mins. Where as since the new year they go through the whole of Rugrats, then the whole of Pet Alien and then have the first break in the middle of Atomic Betty, Play The Game or what ever show is on at 4.(Though I noticed today they didn't even have one during Prove It, or did I miss it?)
Actually thinking about it they probably had more before Christmas to advertise toys etc. But it's still a bit strange for ITV to go about 45mins without a single commercial break and I'm glad there aren't as many (It really did get annoying in the build up to Christmas to see the same toy ad every break.)
Has anybody also noticed that they've cut down the amount of ad breaks? Before Christmas they had an ad break at 3.30, then again around 3.45 then continuing to do this every 10-15mins. Where as since the new year they go through the whole of Rugrats, then the whole of Pet Alien and then have the first break in the middle of Atomic Betty, Play The Game or what ever show is on at 4.(Though I noticed today they didn't even have one during Prove It, or did I miss it?)
Actually thinking about it they probably had more before Christmas to advertise toys etc. But it's still a bit strange for ITV to go about 45mins without a single commercial break and I'm glad there aren't as many (It really did get annoying in the build up to Christmas to see the same toy ad every break.)
The final part is exactly right. They have more of a demand to advertise during Children's programmes before Christmas, and once Christmas has come nobody wants to know, so you end up with adverts for magazines and cereals mainly.
I've seen a lot of CITV this week as I've been off ill and the main problem to me is that they've lost the plot with the credit squeezing. They need to remember what the point of credit squashing actually is rather than just doing it all the time by default.
For example yesterday CITV started with the 3.15 trailer, then Meg and Mog and its credits were squashed to show the 3.15 trailer, then there was Thomas and its credits were squashed to show the 3.15 trailer.
Later in the afternoon you get them trailing say The Giblet Boys before a show and then during the credits of the show they show the same trailer again.
If all they are going to do is show a trailer we've already seen 10 mins previously there's no point, it won't even stop people turning over if its the same trailer!
On a positive note I'm enjoying these classic episodes of Rugrats, although showing the credits would be nice
I've seen a lot of CITV this week as I've been off ill and the main problem to me is that they've lost the plot with the credit squeezing. They need to remember what the point of credit squashing actually is rather than just doing it all the time by default.
For example yesterday CITV started with the 3.15 trailer, then Meg and Mog and its credits were squashed to show the 3.15 trailer, then there was Thomas and its credits were squashed to show the 3.15 trailer.
Later in the afternoon you get them trailing say The Giblet Boys before a show and then during the credits of the show they show the same trailer again.
If all they are going to do is show a trailer we've already seen 10 mins previously there's no point, it won't even stop people turning over if its the same trailer!
On a positive note I'm enjoying these classic episodes of Rugrats, although showing the credits would be nice
Yeah I've noticed that too, though they don't even show the end credits to some programmes, like Atomic Betty, never ever seen end credits for that, they might have done it with a few others too, I'm not sure though, but most of them just get squashed. But I noticed a while ago that CBBC also do that, except they start the credits and show it for about 2 seconds, then they put them in a very small box near the bottom of the screen.
I've seen a lot of CITV this week as I've been off ill and the main problem to me is that they've lost the plot with the credit squeezing. They need to remember what the point of credit squashing actually is rather than just doing it all the time by default.
For example yesterday CITV started with the 3.15 trailer, then Meg and Mog and its credits were squashed to show the 3.15 trailer, then there was Thomas and its credits were squashed to show the 3.15 trailer.
Later in the afternoon you get them trailing say The Giblet Boys before a show and then during the credits of the show they show the same trailer again.
If all they are going to do is show a trailer we've already seen 10 mins previously there's no point, it won't even stop people turning over if its the same trailer!
On a positive note I'm enjoying these classic episodes of Rugrats, although showing the credits would be nice
Yeah I've noticed that too, though they don't even show the end credits to some programmes, like Atomic Betty, never ever seen end credits for that, they might have done it with a few others too, I'm not sure though, but most of them just get squashed. But I noticed a while ago that CBBC also do that, except they start the credits and show it for about 2 seconds, then they put them in a very small box near the bottom of the screen.
I think I prefer the idea of the credit sqeeze to the credit squash as CiTV used to do a few years ago. The best CiTV credits were in 1999 when they had a animation of the TV from the ident on the left hand side with Stephen & Dannielle sat one infront of the other on the bean bag, that way you could see the credits on the left and the presenters on the right.
I agree with you Andrew about the over showing of trailers, I wouldn't mind if they shownt more trailers or had a couple of different trailers for programmes, they could even plug the next programme, ala ITV1, or read emails or anything, but they're not using the time wisely.
One of the things I do hate is the fact that many of the programmes are made for CiTV with ITV's credits so that they can be cut and moved rather than having a 16:9 picture squashed. It would be nice if they could use the credits in this way. They could even make their own for shows without these style credits, though the 4:3 image of credits that fill the screen can be squashed and legible, just how they do on Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Nick, Nick Toons, Nick Jr and Toonami. Or they could go down the Disney Channel route of creating there own end credit style and entering the credits as they want to.
Btw Razor, the Atomic betty end titles are simple images from various Atomic Betty episodes with the credits overlaid.
Back to CiTV, this afternoon the dog seems to be more opaque than normal, I don't know why though.
Globoloco has some wierd filmic effect on top of it, the only problem is that it didn't have this effect on when this series was first shownt last year, and it's made it look awful.
As for MoM, the end of the trailer has been changed audio and visually so that it now reads and Tim now says MoM rather than the Ministry of Mayhem. What this will mean for tomorrow, anybody knows.
But surely something will change even if they just change the graphics so the Ministry of Mayhem doesn't appear under MoM and change the music so that it sings MoM in some way, or it could end up being something major, who knows, they may even leave it how it is!
For anyone who's interested, they've just advertised the new GMTV show to replace Diggin'It and Up on the Roof, it's called Toonattik and starts on Feb 5th.
It's presented by Jamie Rickers (no surprise there then) and Ana Williams (you may have seen her on Scary Sleepover). I don't get how they're going to fit Power Rangers (which looks as though it's on the programme), and any Disney Channel comedies like That's So Raven into the brand Toonattik. And any chance that the roof studio will as an attik, hmm I wonder.
And back onto CiTV, how we all noticed that one of the Giblet Boys is Scott Chisolm, or the little boy that went walking around studios of the BBC in a school uniform, was it for the BBC's 70th Birthday or something?
Globoloco has some wierd filmic effect on top of it, the only problem is that it didn't have this effect on when this series was first shownt last year, and it's made it look awful.
I feel the same for a lot of the drama shows as well, onlywith them it's not an accident. I just don't understand why no-one makes non-filmic drama series any more. There is an idea going round that it looks cheap and nasty, but don't think true. I find in some dramas it to be a really effective way of filming. it gives it a feel that youjust can'tget by filmising, but sadly no producers seem to share my view.
Toonattik dosen't mean anything.If they're going to do something like that it should be Toonatic [or ToonLunatic] or ToonAttic.
I think the theme tune should stay the same because lets see:
Wake up it's the MoM[MoM],
It's the M,the M,the MoM.
Dosen't sound as good as Ministry of Mayhem.
So everything should change to MoM apart from the theme tune.
BTW,i'm taping it tommorow.Is anyone else taping it?
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