ITV Nightime breaks

What can you remember about the format of the breaks between programmes in ITV's Night Time service, before we had the introduction of the ITV Play strand, other words we are talking between when the service first began up until about 2005-06 when ITV Play began.

I'll post my remeberances later but I'll let most of you post yours first.

It was just music and hearts I think.

Mod edit: Oversized signature which I guess was put in the actual post in order to circumvent the image size check

Jesus James. I don't want to get involved with your shenigans over at Metropol but do you mind just resizing your signature to an appropriate size.

EDIT:appears stupidly oversized signature has now left the building

Its not even his signature. Why isn't this pillock banned?

I thought it was a black screen with a continous note

I didn't think they had ad breaks during overnight ITV Play programmes these days. I thought they just ran straight through. I have this cap though which is from some time last year and in the clip to go with it, The Mint presenter welcomes viewers back after the break.

http://www.utvtoday.co.uk/images/back_soon.jpg

I just remember that they used to fill the breaks with PIFs. About 2003-ish they were still showing ones going back to about 1990.

Oh piss off.

You'll also notice that you can't edit profiles at the moment. Otherwise I'd have been told that it is non-regulatory.

EDIT: It now works. I apologise.

hmm, jolly nice chap you are.

You really need to control your temper. There was no need for the 'p***'!

I can actually remember a few of those shown in 2003 when I was setting a few Night Time programmes. I know around then that they showed mainly road safety and special needs one. I'll try and post another message with those that I can remember seeing.

Nowadays, as well as showing the back soon caption, they also show trailers for upcoming programmes that usually run on for much longer than their original showings earlier in the day.

I managed to think of a few I've seen:-

There were lots of Think! adverts in that time, they were about wearing seatbelts, what to do if your car breaks down, cycle safety and horse riding safety. The last three have never been shown outside of ITV Night Time programming, I presume anyway.

One about a postal scandal.

One about fire safety.

And there was one about trains, people walking on the tracks, of course.