ITV Christmas ident discussion

Breakbumpers:

Bauble
http://i33.tinypic.com/10z4ks6.jpg

Reindeer
http://i34.tinypic.com/2cfzhap.jpg

Star
http://i37.tinypic.com/xcrsdu.jpg

Present
http://i35.tinypic.com/2zocgzm.jpg

Christmas Cracker
http://i34.tinypic.com/2ymvm7b.jpg

Jingle Bell
http://i33.tinypic.com/2a8rcic.jpg

Robin
http://i34.tinypic.com/2vrzgd3.jpg

Snowman
http://i33.tinypic.com/kdq520.jpg

Snowflake
http://i38.tinypic.com/6j2eed.jpg

ITV2 have a sparkly breakbumper (the regular BB with sparkles flying out) but no idents.

...or follow ITV1's example and use a standard ident to introduce the news

There doesn't seem to be a 'tagged on' 'Wales' on the festive idents or breakbumpers on ITV1 W.

Perhaps they 'forgot' to add it on. Now where have I heard that before...

Didn't think they'd bother again this year so great to see they have - and a visually nice ident it is as well - the stings included. Reminds me a bit of 2005/06 BBC Two.

And at least the regular music is partly drowned out with something a bit more festive!

Now that I've seen it on screen, I have to say I'm very impressed. Even the music sounds sort-of-okish-in-a-kind-of-roundabout-way, no sorry the generic soundtrack is and always will be woeful but visually the ident is stunning.

Well done, ITV!

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Wow - I am impressed. Didn't think they'd bother but that ident looks great.

It looks like stv hasn't done anything special this year (yet, anyway). All we have is a break bumper with swirling snow.
I don't see why they don't use the idents with the stars flying out from the "S", like they did a few years ago. The idents were still the same, but at least it was something sparkly. LOL

Very nice, and very surprising - though a shame they feel the need to play by the BBC's rules.

Remember that with the exception of continuity leading into regional programmes - which usually have the lake ident with the 'Wales' tag burned in directly beneath the logo in this fashion (image from The TV Room) - Welsh viewers now see the English continuity with 'Wales' superimposed 'live' in the bottom left of the picture. Thanks to the decision to put the ITV1 logo in the centre on the Christmas ident, it would be difficult to do this. It would be fair to say, then, that ITV didn't want to pay for three weeks of Welsh continuity that had the 'Wales' tag burned into the ident (this, of course, would be backtracking on the decision to abolish Welsh continuity in the first place 2/3 years ago).

Nonetheless, it's a fantastic set - though it's a pity we couldn't have a break from the music for a while. I wonder how it would sound with say, BBC 1's latest effort... (*nudge*)

Can anyone with a good memory remember which year it was ITV1 last had proper Christmas idents? Also which years had sparklies and which didn't have anything at all