TV Home Forum

Granada production endcap confusion

(July 2005)

This site closed in March 2021 and is now a read-only archive
JE
Jez Founding member
Andrew posted:
Jack Carkdale posted:
Is the new season of Where The Heart Is now credited as just plain Granada? Or is it "Granada Yorkshire" or something?

The previous season(s) carried a Meridian production caption (in purple GMG-ised style). I never understood that. Isn't the plot set in Yorkshire, or somewhere else northern? So why was it a Meridian production? Confused

Because Meridian made it?
There's no rule that a regional ITV station can only base dramas within their own region!


No but they usually do. e.g Corrie is made by Granada and set in the North, Emmerdale/Heartbeat/The Royal made by YTV and set in Yorkshire
:-(
A former member
If Meridian made it, why did production switch from Anglia?

This must have been a programme made by/for UNM as-was, and released for compliance purposes by Anglia.
HA
harshy Founding member
Good grief, I think they should have stuck to local companies production endcaps rather then this Granada malarky.
SA
saturdaymorning
If they were going to,they should have done Granada Anglia and Granada Carlton and things like that.

But not Granada Central. Rolling Eyes
BO
boring_user_name
Somewhat unrelated question:
A few years ago, I remember reading that united news and media designed a generic set of endcaps, idents etc for Meridian, Anglia and HTV, but for some reason or another it was never broadcast. Does anyone have any captures of this, or even remember anything about this? I really hope this isn't the product of my imagination!
DE
deejay
boring_user_name posted:
Somewhat unrelated question:
A few years ago, I remember reading that united news and media designed a generic set of endcaps, idents etc for Meridian, Anglia and HTV, but for some reason or another it was never broadcast. Does anyone have any captures of this, or even remember anything about this? I really hope this isn't the product of my imagination!


If it was never broadcast, the chances are few people would have been able to capture it. I know there are a few examples of non-broadcasted idents ont the web, but I haven't heard of these ones. AFAIK, United remained fairly comitted to individual regional identity - maybe simply because any attempts they made to unify their branding weren't very good!
NW
nwtv2003
boring_user_name posted:
Somewhat unrelated question:
A few years ago, I remember reading that united news and media designed a generic set of endcaps, idents etc for Meridian, Anglia and HTV, but for some reason or another it was never broadcast. Does anyone have any captures of this, or even remember anything about this? I really hope this isn't the product of my imagination!


UNM used the endcaps, they were shown from about 1997 until Granada gobbled up UNM's ITV Stations. They were nothing exciting, just the 'un' logo with either the Anglia/Meridian/HTV logos printed underneath on a blue background.

I also believe that between 1998 and 1999 both Anglia and Meridian had the 'i t v' logo on the top left of their respective idents, though HTV never did. Also looking from sites such as TV Ark, again both Anglia and Meridian produced generic 'Spirits of...' promos, either for the East or South etc, again not recall of a HTV one.
DB
dbl
Just been on answers.com and it's saying that LWT is Granada London.
http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?method=4&dsid=2222&dekey=Granada+%28production+company%29&gwp=8&curtab=2222_1&linktext=Granada&linktext=Granada&linktext=Granada&linktext=Granada
WH
Whataday Founding member
nwtv2003 posted:
I also believe that between 1998 and 1999 both Anglia and Meridian had the 'i t v' logo on the top left of their respective idents, though HTV never did.


Around 1998-2000, HTV used to cover up the ITV logo everywhere with its own. I even remember that ITV made a promo to celebrate 40 years of Corrie, and HTV edited it to remove any trace of ITV.
BO
BOL I0X
Whataday posted:
nwtv2003 posted:
I also believe that between 1998 and 1999 both Anglia and Meridian had the 'i t v' logo on the top left of their respective idents, though HTV never did.


Around 1998-2000, HTV used to cover up the ITV logo everywhere with its own. I even remember that ITV made a promo to celebrate 40 years of Corrie, and HTV edited it to remove any trace of ITV.


And that's what we want now!
:-(
A former member
Tyne Tees did the same thing in 1993, ie took the generic ITV trailers and put their own logo over the top of the ITV one, and most of the time faded out the "on ITV" bit at the end. Seeing as the ITV trailers were totally non-standard at the time, they had to alter the graphics each time, and some of them I recall were a bit of a mess.
AN
Andrew Founding member
I wasn't aware there were generic ITV trailers back then, I thought the NPU was only formed around 1997?

Newer posts