With one final week to go of ITV1 Celebrities strutting their stuff across our screens before each programme begins, here is a chance to say what you enjoyed about these idents and what you will miss about them and if there was anything you hated about the collection.
The Frank Skinner, Ant and Dec, Chris Tarrant and SIan Lloyd getting frizzled by a lighning strike idents were the best ones for me. These idents certainly made a change and although a lot has been said about them, it will be a shame to see them played out for the final time next Sunday.
What does everyone else think?
Last edited by Juicy Joe on 31 October 2004 11:21pm - 2 times in total
As much as I wanted to *stab* *stab* *stab* the original 2002-03 celebrity idents when they first came on air, with hindsight they're one hell of a lot better than the 2003-04 ones, don't you agree? The first set seemed to be far better produced, and the music was far less tacky, in my humblest opinion.
Anyway, after the oft-slated Hearts idents were consigned to the history books, people suddenly started to realise that maybe they weren't so bad after all. Since I'd bet my bottom dollar that whatever appears on November 1st will be fairly poor, I reckon we'll soon be realising that perhaps the celebrities weren't so bad after all.
But then again, maybe not.
Last edited by BlackCat on 23 October 2004 12:32am
Upon reflection I think the first batch of so called idents were superior to the ones we have at the moment.
The so called "behind the scenes idents", although obviously mocked up, were visually more interesting to look at than Cat Deeley and Mel Sykes prancing up and down a catwalk. It's just in the first batch, the celebs did nothing more than stare at the camera.
I preferred the fact that there were 4 different distinct looks, 2 for entertainment, news, drama and a different music arrangement to each.
The music on the idents at the moment is really drab, there's just nothing to it, it doesn't invoke much enthusiasm or interest in the programme to follow. But, as we know, idents such as these have a very limited shelf-life as people come and go, but more annoyingly some of the major faces of the channel never even got an ident. I always found it odd that in the 2nd set, there wasn't a Trevor McDonald ident, the main news anchor of the channel. Maybe the second look was just too trivial and bright for him, any other notable exceptions ?
They won't go down in history as particularly memorable identities for the reason of what they replaced. Ok, GMG North had the drab spinning short version of the blue hearts which to be honest I was quite glad to see the back of, anything would have been an improvement. But these celebs consigned some of our favourite voices to the dustbin, and a loss of regional logos. Carlton viewers, (already well down the corporate image road), well they lost a far superior presentation set.
So, overall, a fairly forgettable period of TV presentation, let's hope for something a little more inspiring next.
My favourite was from the original set with Johnny Briggs (Mike Baldwin from Corrie) standing still jerking his head round in an uncomfortable looking way as the camera went around him - he really looked like it was the last place on earth he wanted to be.
