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Unusual Granada Endcap in use

(June 2006)

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MD
Mr D'Arcy
[quote="marbles333"]
TVF posted:
Spencer For Hire posted:


Granada Kids? Confused

Granada Kids is a hosting site for kiddies programmes made by Granada, such as www.granadakids.com/aliens


You learn something new everyday! Wink
HA
harshy Founding member
[quote="TVF"]
marbles333 posted:
TVF posted:
Spencer For Hire posted:


Granada Kids? Confused

Granada Kids is a hosting site for kiddies programmes made by Granada, such as www.granadakids.com/aliens


You learn something new everyday! Wink


what's the point calling it granada kids, maybe it should be www.citv.co.uk/aliens

Honestly ITV just don't know what they are doing!
AN
Andrew Founding member
it's only a hosting site, it isn't advertised using that address

You are supposed to use itv.com/citv and then click on aliens
MA
marbles333
There's also two hidden pages on that site from the last series, containing flash movies of titles and credits

http://www.granadakids.com/aliens/titles.html
http://www.granadakids.com/aliens/credits.html

Notice the Granada endcap on the Credits movie
NW
nwtv2003
The brand, Granada Kids, is hardly new, AIUI it's been going since the late 1990's, when the company was known as 'Granada Media Group' with the weird blue G, after that point all of Granada and Yorkshire's kids programmes were coming under as Granada Kids, though their endcap was rarely seen onscreen at the time.
NI
Nicky
There's an odd "Granada Media Kids" lime-coloured endcap doing the rounds on old repeats of My Parents are Aliens on Nickelodeon. It is the "weird blue G" that was done in the 1990s for GMG. The G is enclosed in a button-type circle with the aforementioned words "Granada Media Kids" underneath it. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
AS
Asa Admin
marbles333 posted:
http://www.granadakids.com/aliens/credits.html


Blimey, still doing 1min credit sequences even in 2003? Did CITV ever show them in full?!
AN
Andrew Founding member
BBCNicky@Yorks posted:
There's an odd "Granada Media Kids" lime-coloured endcap doing the rounds on old repeats of My Parents are Aliens on Nickelodeon. It is the "weird blue G" that was done in the 1990s for GMG. The G is enclosed in a button-type circle with the aforementioned words "Granada Media Kids" underneath it. Anyone know what I'm talking about?


Is this what you mean?

http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/gmc.jpg
This is what was used on the 1st series of MPAA

Regarding the credits, those on the website are a special full series version, for all the episodes combined in series 5? The standard episode ones used on TV are the usual 20ish seconds
MU
mulder
From Norwich posted:

Could it have been Anglia's Tales of the Unexpected? They have an animated Granada Group ident from around 2000?


Ah yes, that was it.
MA
marbles333
There was also another version of the Granada Kids ident, but it also contained the Yorkshire Cheveron alongside the Granada "G". It was yellow, and was seen in earlier versions of MPAA.
WH
Whataday Founding member
Granada Kids is the 'inhouse childrens department' that ITV Plc is due to close down or sell off.

I have the very first Granada Media ident somewhere. It's basically a big blue G logo with beams of light shining through.

9 days later

CW
cwathen Founding member
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The best Granada ident that should be used on all programmes made in-house should be the one used just before programmes in Granadaland - the animated glassy one - first used in 1995. Now that would make a real decent end-cap

I've seen it used as one on Boot Camp (2001 US reality series on which our own 'Lad's Army' was surely based). The animation is shown in a box on a slide with 'Granada Entertainment' underneath.

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