New Look Learning Zone Starts 9th Jan 2004

I have just read today's TV guides for w/c 3rd January 2004 and notice that the new Learning Zone schedule on BBC2 begins on Friday night 9th January from 2am until 6am. The schedule, according to the Learning Zone website will be the same Saturday to Friday everynight, starting from 2am, apart from Tuesday nights when it will start from 1am instead. So it looks like there may be no more repeats of The X Files on Friday nights then.

Well I just glanced at the TV and saw a menu over a nice moving blue squares background thingy. And I have no further idea about the Learning Zone - so this is the relaunch yes? Anyone see it?

That sounds like ITV1 to me!

They've just used the normal seed & leaf ident into the next programme, perhaps they are introducing it slowly.

IIRC (although im not 100% sure on this) the new look learning zone promo stated that it was from the 12th

As I say I just glanced over and literally saw 2 seconds worth - it was a programme menu in bold Gill Sans over a moving blue background that looked to me like squares moving downwards. So if it sounds familiar as something else it could be that.

I've got a feeling it may be different colours for different themed nights.

Well so much for the "all new BBC Learning Zone"! Does that mean the LZ ident continues to be the oldest piece of BBC presentation still in use today?

How could they have re-jigged it? Any ideas? The obvious answer is a green box in the corner of the original ident, but "Learning Zone" is a bit much to squeeze into such a small space. You could shorten it to LZ though.

I had created some unuploaded mocks of BBC LEARNING in a dark green box a while ago. It just seemed to me BBC LEARNING was more logical.

well it looks like the "new look learning zone" is actually a "new look" in a pres sense, just a revamped schedule, as the anno called it the new look learning zone over the old ident. (not that i didn't believe those who posted last week - i just thought maybe the new look was from today).

anyway - the anno did a rather long junction listing the shows and the content of the shows over a green falling acorns menu. not that im sad to see the acorns stay - cos its still a pretty decent set of idents and menus.

When I saw the newer look to the website about a month ago, I had a feeling that they were just going to fiddle with the colours of the acorns. Then when the LZ came back and the acorn backdrop had become blue, I figured I was probably right, and I was. They are different colours depending on the theme of the programmes being shown. Blue is OU stuff, which was on the first 2 nights, and the original browny colour was used last night I think. Now you saw you saw green acorns.