BBC One Christmas Ident 2016 Speculation

Were we all this bad when we started?

A group of TV fans have been given the once-in-a-lifetime chance of being BBC1 continuity announcers – on the biggest day of the year.
BBC1 has recorded key programme announcements from members of the public who will get their chance to see and hear themselves introducing big shows such as the EastEnders and Doctor Who Christmas episodes.
We say "see" because the announcements have also been filmed and will be shown on air in the junctions between the shows. Normally continuity announcers are just heard introducing shows.
The news was announced last night by Charlotte Moore, the BBC’s director of content who said: “BBC1 this year is all about audiences and so we’ve got a stunt for Christmas Day – we've called on fans of our Christmas shows to come and help us out – we’re handing over the continuity announcements to them, so keep an eye out for it.”
RadioTimes.com understands that the BBC has filmed fans of its biggest shows in different sized groups ranging from 6 to 40 people who are described as “united by their love and passion for a BBC1 show".

Most of which were cast from starnow... of course. Is that a press release from the BBC or do Aardman have an involvement to?

Yes. Yes we were.

In-vision continuity? Just when we thought it was gone from the main channels for good after UTV got rebranded...

Where's that pinch of salt?

So we've got a stunt for Christmas Day.."

Great wording for a 'press release'..

It's on the Radio Times website though… http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-12-02/tv-fans-to-become-bbc1-continuity-announcers-on-christmas-day

And that was a quote from the BBC director of content. This is confirmed news, not a rumour.

The Radio Times have now released a BBC Christmas trailer.

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-12-02/watch-sherlock-doctor-who-call-the-midwife-and-more-in-bbcs-sparkling-christmas-trailer

And a good prefer it is. The top and tail orange background looks lovely but reminds me of Sainsbury's for some reason.

Christ. They've copied Channel 4.

Looks to be some sort of Gogglebox bandwagon jump by the look of it.

This sort of thing always looks wrong on BBC One, didn't they feature Christmas greetings from members of the public one year which didn't seem very BBC at all.