Eastenders Title Screen

has anyone else thought that it is about time the BBC revamped the Eastenders title screen and logo?

Some of the mocks are great - anyone feel like creating a new look?

R

Wrong forum but meh. In all honesty I think it would be a shame to lose the current EastEnders logo? We've seen variations of the opening titles so it's open to tweaking, but I wouldn't say complete change

I agree entirely, besides, people identify a soap with its opening sequence. It's the main tool for marketing a soap towards a particular group, something Neighbours seem to have forgotten now that we're heading towards yet another new look on BBC screens within the next few weeks. Very poor indeed, never does our UK soaps any harm to have some continuity in styles for umpteen years at a time.

Wasn't the 1993 music change on Eastenders a disaster?

It wasn't that jazz s**t was it, lol.

Yes it was, it sounded dated as soon as it was first played lacking the depth of the original theme that was later reinstated (all be it tweaked). Simon May wrote the original to include sitars and the sounds of the Bow bells, and along with the whistle reflected the complex make up of east end life, supposedly! The jazz remix was a lightweight mess with tacky drum machine noise and sax that sounded like some cheesy mid-80s American cop show....

yes - i agree - the title screen is in need of a re-vamp. the music is sooo dated - roll on a new look!!!

aidan

Maybe they've run out of ideas as to what colour to pain the river next? How about the colour it actually is... murky brown!

They've had blue and a sort of greeny colour as far as I can remember - and I'm sure the Thames has never been EITHER of those colours!

Phew! If you think the EastEnders theme is dated how do you rate the Coronation Street theme then?!!!!

I've never heard a remix of the Corrie theme that is any where near as good as the original (they've tried in clips programmes etc in the past), I just can't imagine how it could be updated, the theme tune is kind of as ingrained into British TV as, well, err, only Coronation Street its self.... (everything else has been chipped away).

They've successfully remixed the Emmerdale tune a few times, and the most recent Brookside one (with superb opening titles) was good too.

I seem to remember hearing that the Corrie tune was jazzed up slightly sometime in the 60s - does anyone else know?

The current theme was recorded in the early 1990s but as far as I know it was just a re-recording as opposed to a re-orchestration.

The Coronation Street tune is exactly the same, except they have had to re record it to transfer it onto different technology.
The only good reworking of the theme that I like is the one that's played at (I think) the National Television Awards. As all of them, it is played by a full orchestra and sounds very professional.

I prefer this Emmerdale version of the theme tune to the last, and the one before that. I think it is very nice, orchestral and fits in with the titles and the village setting. Though I still don't get those black and white clips the are placed over the titles, they're not even any soap actors.