BBC Two 2015 with 90s idents

The way I look at it, they're fairly timeless (so they don't look old) and they haven't been used on screen for over a decade, maybe even twenty years (so they're not necessarily stale).

I've always argued that companies brand themselves to "stand out", but the irony is almost everybody uses live-action footage with some graphics or a logo slapped onto it. The qualities of BBC One's, ITV's, and Sky's idents are almost identical - live action stuff, logo appears. The 90s BBC Two idents are like nothing we're seeing on television nowadays and they're doing a better job at standing out brand-wise... even though their programmes aren't necessarily reflecting it.

They're not much like what was on other channels back in the day either. Most idents in the 90s were computer graphics. A few exceptions obviously (just to anticipate the unnecessary sarcastic comment someone will reply with, citing non CG examples) and the original Carlton idents of '93 were ahead of their time and a sign of things to come.

Compared with other years when they've been splashed all over the internet by bonfire night?

They've probably not even been made yet

This is assuming that they're actually making new ones.

Why bother when you can just get a total nice new look for 2016 for both channels, Ties in with BBC3 moving online too.

While the BBC charter negotiations are going on, the BBC will not do any rebranding/make new idents. They might cost relatively little to make and be very cost-effective across their use, but any perceived 'unnecessary expenditure' will be leapt on by other parts of the media who are keen to see the BBC cut down.

Anyone else seen the greedy two?

http://i0.wp.com/www.tv-live.org.uk/media/bbc2/2015/Frinightin15-28.JPG

Is that the 50 years transition back as well?

I thought it looked naff when Channel 4 did it 12/13 years ago.

It really speaks volumes about a channel when the Network manages to b***er up a menu...



...while BBC TWO Scotland, the presentation sloths, manages to use it correctly.



(Northern Ireland also used their own menu. However, I only deal in fair comparisons - you can't really compare a guinea pig to a rhinoceros.)

Well it's better but not right

The Next text and the programme text are not aligned and the two lines of white text are so close together the Y is hanging into the second line.

I mean that Scotland is using the normal and original version (apart from the line gaps), rather than what appears to be a slapdash rehash of the Sign Zone graphics.


http://i1.wp.com/www.tv-live.org.uk/media/bbc2/2009/41.jpg

Oh I see, I'm just saying that they didn't get it exactly right.

The line spacing is off in that image as well, I suppose they have got lucky that a lower case G or Y hasn't landed above an H or I, they might then have to adjust the spacing.