BBC Two Christmas Idents 2016

It's Silk, not Neon. Sorry

I just saw the video again and you were right. Silly me. 😅

It's Silk.

edit: pipped to the post by Denton

Yeah, I know now. 😄

Considering their whole ident style is now just recycled stuff from the 90s I don't get why they don't just do what BBC2 NI are doing and stick with the old ones. They actually have stood the test of time and as they're nowhere near as familar as the main BBC2 idents or even the Christmas BBC1 idents of the time they almost pass off as new.

There just used silk but with the xmas box.
EDIT Scotland used the xmas box...

Just seen it on iPlayer. I'm not sure if it works.

It would be great if the silk could be changed in post to have a festive design on it.

What bright spark in London thought that this looked good (or even legible): dates/days in black text on the dark blue Christmas trail end boards?

Yes, I noticed that too. I would suggest that perhaps the regular template, which uses that formula, has not been updated to compensate for the Christmas look.


This still would not explain what is preventing a simple "using one's eyes to see an obvious design problem being broadcast to the nation" check, however.

Nice to see this on NI this afternoon...

http://www.theidentgallery.com/misc/misc/BBC2NI-2016-XMAS-STING-ICE-1.mp4

BBC Scotland has started using the 1999 ident.

BBC2 2000 Christmas Sting #1, shown on NI today at 3.28pm.



edit: sorry, Andrew Wood, I hadn't spotted you posting an upload.

Hope to see the other stings in that set very soon on NI.