Who Is Your Favourite Continuity Announcer?

They can be from any channel.....also why?

this is my first time on here posting. I've been lurking for a LONG time first....now, i'm ready!

I think it would have to be Duncan Newmarch with an honourable mention for Becky Wright - both of them have the balance just right.

They can do appropriately serious announcements into programmes that need it, but they're not afraid to have some fun when the moment is right, such as playing in sound effects from time to time and popping up on the other network to hand over a Comic Relief collection bucket.

It's true to say that Duncan has a different style to the likes of Andy Cartledge and Peter Offer, and that style may not be everybody's cup of tea, but with the way broadcasting and presentation has progressed I think this style fits in well.

Phil Vowels and Dean Lydiate are also excellent - in fact the BBC has the better team - ITV1 are simply dire and unimaginative.

By the way - are pre-recorded announcers like Iain Lee and Greg James on Dave considered to be proper continuity announcers for the purposes of this thread?

Yes Don't forget Phil Jupitus

But yeah.. Duncan Newmarch is my current favourite on BBC1

Well Steve, that's a good point......i think we should leave out the celeb pre recorded voices. Just because we always hear about them somewhere....Lets give time to the boys & girls who you rarely hear about.

My favourite continuity announcer is the lovely Duncan Newmarch! It was he who directed me to this site and told me I would enjoy posting here! I think he is great and very hilarious! His line last Christmas "How did we get penguins to do that" is particularly funny! and this is funny too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b92akIDj_C8

Ha! ha! LOL!

I love this clip too of Duncan! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqcAwDrnXRA

My favourite is Matthew Jackson on BBC TWO- warm, friendly and always professional.

Personally, I'd have to go with Phil Vowels and Matthew Jackson as favourites from the BBC team, but many others are not that far behind. As mentioned, Dean Lydiate, also a superb announcer who is suited to both friendly and serious continuity.

I should say that whenever Dean used to do the BBC One continuity for handovers to News 24 (as it was then called) a good few years ago, I recall most of the time it'd be announced over the Capoeira symbol. He seemingly had a fondness for referring to this sequence as "the familiar London skyline" - and subsequently I considered it a (probably one and only) catchphrase of his; I couldn't help but smile when he said it! Of course, when the whole Rhythm & Movement era was retired, so was the phrase.

Looking back quite far, I'd say that BBC Two was traditionally the channel where continuity was allowed to go that bit further, be a bit more cheeky or mocking of things. Circa 1992 for example, I've heard a horror film being introduced over the Copper symbol, but read out in an ominous voice - and with the usual soundtrack substituted for some rather dramatic incidental music!

With regards to other main broadcasters, Channel 4 have some fine and established announcers too. I'd say my favourite there is actually David McLeod, but of course Gary Terzza deserves honourable mention too.

Perhaps we take continuity for granted - IMO it is a real asset, one of the defining aspects of British television over the years - so I do hope it lives on well into the future.

From the long lost days of Westward, you had to admire Stuart Hutchison and Roger Shaw for their level of professionalism and the odd bit of mischievousness.

If we're talking old ITV then, I've got to give a nod for Granada's Charles Foster, Colin Weston and Jim Pope, you just don't get them anymore like you used to.