Favourite TV Idents

On the 2nd of December 1953, the first ever british ident was released. The ident was called Batwings and was made for the BBC. The ident lasted 7 years and paved the way for more TV idents.

One of my favourite ident was the ITV1 2002 idents. I like it becuase of the music and the set where they shot it does look quite nice.



What I want to know is, what is your all time favourite TV Ident.

Christmas and Special idents are allowed in this.

https://www.tvwhirl.co.uk/presentation/itv/regional/tyne-tees/tttv-idents/?clip=4206

OK, seriously…

Carlton World’s sadly shortlived idents were beautiful.

Beautiful. Lambie-Nairn were firing on all cylinders in this period.


Am I right or wrong in saying that ident was reserved for serious news events only (such as September 11th) - I think I might have read that on here. Similar to BBC One and ‘Ballet’ in the 2002 set, and later ‘Moon’ in the 2006 set.

The Carlton ident I posted was primarily designed I think for serious occasions, and it came in very useful in the days after 9/11 as it was pretty much the primary ident in those days.

They did have another ident that was almost always (in Central land anyway) used into the local news:

And of course the pre-cursor to those Carlton idents were UK Arena from 1997 - even the music is practically the same.

I don’t think anything comes close to Sky Premier - fantastically epic and over the top.

An interesting fact I think I've mentioned before is that the heart used in both these idents is the same fibreglass model (it's not CGI).

I still think this is beautiful, and holds up well today considering it's 30 years old.

I’m unsure if I’ve seen that before but what a lovely Ident with a fantastic musical score. I love how instead of the announcer dipping the audio there is a build up to the more muted score that they could talk over. It’s simple yet so effective. I wonder if any channel would return to one beautifully crafted Ident again.

Spot on the money, all new Phil.

Possibly the best ident ever - the music which accompanied it also worked really well.