New Look Andrew Marr Show

But the BBC has multiple audiences to serve - despite both being 'news' shows, Andrew Marr and Saturday Breakfast have two very different purposes. Replacing Andrew Marr with an extra hour of Breakfast would perhaps increase ratings (I don't know the figures though...) but it would set back their political coverage.

Indeed. Anyway, the Breakfast with Frost titles used to be far worse, they had the old BBC logo in them ages after they changed it, and they showed Frost standing up and shouting which he never did during the programme...



The one thing they need to change on The Andrew Marr Show is when he introduces the guests and they have to stare psychotically at the camera while he does it, which looks ridiculous.

That action looks more like requests to the floor manager or camera operator or somebody else on the production, as you can see other production staff in those titles and Frost preparing.

Yes, it's something like 'if you pull the camera towards me'

These were and remain the best political show titles I've ever seen. These are the "euro" version, the croc stayed on the mainland for the UK version. Excellent animation, suburb idea and well executed.

And very odd not to see the final reveal as the clock hands wiped round to reveal the studio. Great titles, and the set was very well executed and distinctive too.

Re : the logo - the only place I can see it there, unless I'm being very dense, is on the side of a lens. Would you really expect a re-shoot to change a logo (when the cameras in use may well have still had the old logo on them anyway?) It wasn't as if it was a burned in logo that could be quickly replaced in an edit.

What's that daft winking eye on an old fashioned telly at 00:22 all about?

"On The Record" titles were good, I agree. Much better than any of the 'machinery' titles that the Daily and Sunday Politics uses. That said the roaring Big Ben croc combined with John Humphreys hosting and questioning did frighten me a bit (as a child).

Really not a fan of that logotype. It looks like a vertically stretched Impact, which is an ugly typeface to begin with.

The previous beige zebra-print upholstery chairs did the rounds a fair bit: they'd go on the road with the programme. Maybe they ran out of the fabric to re-cover them?

Also, good to see Ken Clarke's got his favourite tie on.

The crocodile has his own page on, er, BBCi...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/otr/crocpage.shtml

What terrible music that Breakfast with Frost era had, particularly the bit where they've shoved in the American anthem.

This era was typical of how inaccessible and dated the BBC's political programmes were in that era, before they modernised and some would say dumbed down to make them more accessible, in the Sunday AM and The Politics Show era.

The OTR titles were great though.

Well, I wouldn't mind about the restaurant, as long as the food was nice. In terms of the airline, I'd be more bothered about the safety record than how dirty a plane looked - not that I regularly fly, in any case.