New ITV1 Idents

Not necessarly, Pop Idol will still be in people's minds for a few months after it finishes to they can still show them into the Spring, they arn't programme promotions remember, some are used (such as Amanda Redman in the old lot) months before they appear in a show, as long as they are an ITV1 face

Can we take it now then, that ITV's presentation strategy will be to update the celebrity idents every year and brush up on the presentation ? It's like the ITV of old, they always used to bring out new trailers, endboard graphics in the autumn.

But how long before re-doing celebrity lead idents becomes too much of a chore for them ?

Although I've yet to see any ITV1 today, have any London idents surfaced or are they still just networked ones with 'ITV For London' said on top?

Well some people on here have said before that "You know those regional idents, I bet they'll forget to use them and they'll just disappear, I bet this time next year they'll be gone". Today's revamp including new regional idents will have put the end to that idea then!

I think that if it had faded and then moved over to the side at the same time, things would have become a little bit messy. I suppose it's all down to timing. I know programmes have to 'ask' to use a special background, but surely Coronation Street could ask for special permission to use whatever they like! The blue is unsuitable really.

My view on the new look after living with it for a day.

Dislike:
Generic idents look cheap and nasty and the music doesn't fit.
Music and logo form-up on celebrity idents awful.
ECP looks unsightly.
New ITV.com cluttered and unfriendly.
ITV tune carried forward from previous idents but disfigured.
Overuse of blue rotating squares.
Bright yellow generic too old fashioned and ninetees.
Some (not all) trailer endboards look very cluttered.
Regional idents look cluttered too (those blue squares again)
Breakbumper too cluttered (the last one was fairly plain, so when my TV switched from 4:3 to 16:9 there wasn't a big noticable jump. On this new one, where everything moves, the switch looks awful.)

Like:
New sets for idents are brighter and more cheerful.
Celebrities appear to be enjoying themselves.
New trailer endboard improvement on old.

On the whole, I'm afraid I dislike the changes. I'd much prefer the return on the old (and some of them unseen in full) generics.

Wonder if there will be any new Granada idnets with Lucy on and maybe Tony, I think Paul Crone was on a old 1.

With this new set of idents, and some celebs back on the new sets, I expect we've seen the end of these people on idents :

Ross Kemp and the cup of coffee (doubt they'd have done another for him, now that ITV are letting him go)

Mary Nightingale (I don't suppose she was available for the filming)

Gerri Halliwell (she didn't really deserve one in the first place)

Those Bad Girls women (Claire King has left the series and that Yvonne woman has been killed off)

Robson Green (not contracted to ITV anymore)

Chris Tate (leaving Emmerdale)

Cold Feet people (series finished)

Kiera Knightly (the one nobody ever knew who she was)

any others who won't be re-appearing ?

You forgot Cilla, chuck.

Brain Dowling (still classed as an ITV1 face?)

Tracey Shaw (left Corrie)

Keira Knighley (no longer significantly on ITV1)

Also the stars of the soaps are different ones this time around

They're not bad at all.

But those ones of people just sitting about talking to each other or reading scripts or that mystery man who noone really knows who he is, are a bit boring.

And I think I will miss the old ITV blue and yellow Ant and Dec/Davina McCall tiles music. That was top class and should be on some of these new ones!!!

Will anyone be able to provide any mp3 versions of the music clean and in full, which is what normally happens on here???

Paul O'Grady is back at the Beeb, so that rules him out

They are requesting new contestants for a new series of blankety blank for the new year at the mo. So he will be back. Didnt itv sign up Lily Savage, therefore he is Paul O Grady at the BBC, yet only does Lily Savage for itv? One Saturday night programme I have missed this year has been Lily Live. It was great. I only hope they will bring it back.

Nice bit of POST PRODUCTION on the Melanie Sykes ident just aired as she walked across the circle tunnel, they took various shots where she was closer and further away and have blended them, with them fading together nicely.