BBC Two 2015 with 90s idents

But that's exactly the point. The Grenfell fire has dominated the news for the last two weeks. If a RT viewer has already made a connection, rightly or wrongly, then others will.

Surely it's easier to temporarily rest that ident than risk being accused of insensitivity. Of course the link between the ident and the tragedy is extremely tedious, but the decision to rest one out of a series of idents (if indeed that's what the BBC have done - we are only speculating as we haven't seen it recently) until the fire is off the front pages and not leading the news broadcasts is also a nothing issue.

If we're going to be facetious I've never been in a kebab shop where the meat has been engulfed in flames as per the ident, but it's clearly not about a kebab is it? It's about an ident featuring fire while there is a major news story about people getting burnt alive in an inferno.

It's not politically correctness gone mad, it's just taste and decency.

I love how you're all acting like there's something with us. To me, if you're watching a kebab being cooked and begin imagining human flesh and buildings burning, you're probably in need of therapy.

Absolutely standard practice after a major disaster or tragedy to check for anything that might be insensitive in the schedule. A number of commercials, promos, interstitials and programmes have been quietly dropped across many channels over the last couple of weeks, I guess this one is just a little more noticeable here.

Bit of a stupid decision to drop Kebab because one insensitive snowflake wasn't happy about it, but I guess we'll have to wait a few weeks before it's back in circulation.

Was that an intended pun?

This conversation reminds me of this video...

Well now we know how bad it can be, shall we move on?

Woah, never seen that before, I'm sat here laughing my head off.
Wonder how many angry people phoned in complaining, haha.

And yes, can we please move on?

As I said, nothing to do with kebabs. It's very fire-heavy and completely appropriate (and common sense) to drop it for a bit.

But yes, moving on as some are getting unnecessary...

There is a worse precedent to the examples given here. Channel 4 once had to apologise for running an ident which involved someone (Mark Little) firing a gun at the camera... the morning after the Dunblane massacre.

That Granada public service announcement is obviously unfortunate, but I'm not sure what else they could have done. Back then, announcements like that were rare, but a core part of what mainstream broadcast media were expected to do. It's similar to 'SOS Messages' on Radio 4. They were often simply read without fanfare in programme junctions on Radio 4, followed by a pause and a station namecheck.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35815747

Going straight into the programme by the announcer giving a simple station ident is actually a fairly good way of getting around the clearly awkward juxtaposition.

I guess they could have done it at the start of the break rather than at the end? But agreed that they did a good job of handling the juxtaposition.