Jonathan Ross Frankie Howerd trailer 1991
This was too good to miss out. A trailer for "Tonight with Johnathan Ross", an early Ross chat show lasting 1990 to 1992. This followed his first chat show also on Channel 4 "The Last Resort with Johnathan Ross".
Frankie Howerd here, gives his trademark "oooh" expression. Simple but still funny.
Showing posts with label Continuity and Idents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Continuity and Idents. Show all posts
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Monday, 1 March 2010
Where's Richard and Judy Then Love?
Scottish Television in-vision continuity & closedown - 1987
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRyXvVGCEWo
One of the more memorable continuity videos I've seen on Youtube. Read on, and you'll find out what I mean by the title...
This is from the Scottish ITV (or rather STV) for the Scotland Central region, including Glasgow and Edinburgh. We have some of static idents at the beginning of the video, but hold tight, there's an in-vision announcer to come, introducing the TV schedule for the next day (Tuesday). In-vision announcing was a staple of British TV from the beginning, but became phased out gradually region-to-region in the 1990s.
In this video, Scottish keeps a firm identity in it's idents, with a block 80s-style 3D graphic of a thistle, an icon of Scotand. 1987 is the year the region celebrates 30 years of broadcasting. Then we have a clock ident, which was a mainstay in it's many forms for BBC and Channel 4, but these style of idents have all dissappeared now. So we turn to Liz Kristiansen, who tells us the main highlights of tomorrow. Taking from the fact, Liz is discussing a programme about the "Fringe Festival" in Edinburgh, this must be August, and the shedule look summer holiday-ish, with children's programmes running in the morning like "Rainbow" and "Captain Scarlet", and not at lunchtimes. So it's basically, your highlights, then the schedule in full with some nice luminous 80s pink/blue graphics, then reminders of catching your local radio stations tomorrow, Radio Clyde for the west, Radio Forth for the east. However, what is strange about this clip?
Yes, over a year before "This Morning" reached our screens with Richard Madeley and Judy Finnegan, here is a prototype to the "This Morning" theme song, which sounds even more dated and 80s than the future one. The song comes in, when the full schedule is announced. No over-the-top saxophone here I'm afraid, but there is a little sax, and it gets a solo too. It doesn't sound like the theme at first, but you hear a little more, and a little light comes on, and aha! So...
Anyone for Netball World Championship on the box?
Scottish Television got rid of in-vision announcer in October 1991. If you don't live in the Ulster region, then the only sort of in-vision announcers you will be see, will be for children's programmes like CBBC and "yoof" TV in the form of "T4" on channel 4.
Liz Kristiansen remained on Scottish as an off-screen announcer after 1991. Her career on Scottish spanned from the mid-80s to 1994.
And how could I forget! At the end of the video is our Queen Liz, still-frame, and our prestigious national anthem is played, as the channel is over and out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRyXvVGCEWo
One of the more memorable continuity videos I've seen on Youtube. Read on, and you'll find out what I mean by the title...
This is from the Scottish ITV (or rather STV) for the Scotland Central region, including Glasgow and Edinburgh. We have some of static idents at the beginning of the video, but hold tight, there's an in-vision announcer to come, introducing the TV schedule for the next day (Tuesday). In-vision announcing was a staple of British TV from the beginning, but became phased out gradually region-to-region in the 1990s.
In this video, Scottish keeps a firm identity in it's idents, with a block 80s-style 3D graphic of a thistle, an icon of Scotand. 1987 is the year the region celebrates 30 years of broadcasting. Then we have a clock ident, which was a mainstay in it's many forms for BBC and Channel 4, but these style of idents have all dissappeared now. So we turn to Liz Kristiansen, who tells us the main highlights of tomorrow. Taking from the fact, Liz is discussing a programme about the "Fringe Festival" in Edinburgh, this must be August, and the shedule look summer holiday-ish, with children's programmes running in the morning like "Rainbow" and "Captain Scarlet", and not at lunchtimes. So it's basically, your highlights, then the schedule in full with some nice luminous 80s pink/blue graphics, then reminders of catching your local radio stations tomorrow, Radio Clyde for the west, Radio Forth for the east. However, what is strange about this clip?
Yes, over a year before "This Morning" reached our screens with Richard Madeley and Judy Finnegan, here is a prototype to the "This Morning" theme song, which sounds even more dated and 80s than the future one. The song comes in, when the full schedule is announced. No over-the-top saxophone here I'm afraid, but there is a little sax, and it gets a solo too. It doesn't sound like the theme at first, but you hear a little more, and a little light comes on, and aha! So...
Anyone for Netball World Championship on the box?
Scottish Television got rid of in-vision announcer in October 1991. If you don't live in the Ulster region, then the only sort of in-vision announcers you will be see, will be for children's programmes like CBBC and "yoof" TV in the form of "T4" on channel 4.
Liz Kristiansen remained on Scottish as an off-screen announcer after 1991. Her career on Scottish spanned from the mid-80s to 1994.
And how could I forget! At the end of the video is our Queen Liz, still-frame, and our prestigious national anthem is played, as the channel is over and out!
Monday, 22 February 2010
The Beginnings of the Spinning BBC Globe...
BBC GLOBE pre BBC2 1963
A short and sweet clip, of the first incarnation of the spinning BBC Globe ident from 1963. I'm not sure if this is the exact first appearance of the globe from November 30th September, but obviously pretty close. The globe theme lasted up to 2002, with the spinning globe really ending in 1997, replaced by BBC globe hot-air balloons shown in outdoor locations soaring above. The idents after 2002, became more human-orientated appealing to a multi-cultural society. Oh...pour me a drink...
A short and sweet clip, of the first incarnation of the spinning BBC Globe ident from 1963. I'm not sure if this is the exact first appearance of the globe from November 30th September, but obviously pretty close. The globe theme lasted up to 2002, with the spinning globe really ending in 1997, replaced by BBC globe hot-air balloons shown in outdoor locations soaring above. The idents after 2002, became more human-orientated appealing to a multi-cultural society. Oh...pour me a drink...
Monday, 1 February 2010
Person-being-pinned-against-a-glass-shower-screen-possibly-sending-a-coded-message-for-help. Don't you just Love that Continuity?
Channel 4 Interlude (Late 1980s)
Here we have the ending and credits to the award-winning and long-running, US Children's educational series "Sesame Street" created by Jim Henson. This was a main feature on Channel 4 back in the 80's and early 90's, introducing the UK to what all the fuss was all about. Running since 1969, here we see on the left, deaf Sesame Street presenter, Linda Bove, along with lesser-known puppet character, Buster the Horse, can't name the other woman, but I'm sure it's not who I think it is. This is followed by "Sesame Street was brought to you today by the number letter...etc". Then, prepare to fast forward or skip, if you don't like classical, relaxing music. This is simply an on-screen schedule after 9am in the morning, with an questionably artistic photograph behind, and that is all.
Back then, TV was more slower paced, but usually more prolonged around Schools TV on both BBC/ITV and Channel 4. You hardly see this kind of continuity nowadays, although Schools TV did keep up with it, but still-frame pauses like this became shorter and shorter into the 1990's and 2000's. The belief being that, people's attention spans were getting shorter -probably true with younger generations brought up on the internet- and now 100's of channels from satellite competing against the "Big Four" or the ahem, "Big Five". You only get this type of continuity on "Ceefax" on the early hours of BBC2 mornings, now and again. Isn't there times, you want the TV of today to take a chill pill? We don't want to be informed all the time, being shown your big flashy graphics, and editing camera angles every millionth of a second. It can sometimes get annoying or depressing. What's wrong with listening and watching to nice music, while you're mind wanders, giving you time to think, on perhaps, the previous TV viewings or, what's to come, or maybe it allows you into some deep philosophical though about your own life. Some will say, "Just turn the TV off then", however, a minority of people say " You just don't understand".
Yes, "Sesame Street" was an American show but it was a large part of some British children's childhood and should not be detracted from UK TV nostalgia! So anything goes here, if the programme is mainstream and well-known. The series was one of the first to entertain as well as educate, not basic stuffy professors in stuffy studio's telling us how the world works. Learning can be fun, as proved by Sesame Street. We'll be seeing more of this show in later posts.
Here we have the ending and credits to the award-winning and long-running, US Children's educational series "Sesame Street" created by Jim Henson. This was a main feature on Channel 4 back in the 80's and early 90's, introducing the UK to what all the fuss was all about. Running since 1969, here we see on the left, deaf Sesame Street presenter, Linda Bove, along with lesser-known puppet character, Buster the Horse, can't name the other woman, but I'm sure it's not who I think it is. This is followed by "Sesame Street was brought to you today by the number letter...etc". Then, prepare to fast forward or skip, if you don't like classical, relaxing music. This is simply an on-screen schedule after 9am in the morning, with an questionably artistic photograph behind, and that is all.
Back then, TV was more slower paced, but usually more prolonged around Schools TV on both BBC/ITV and Channel 4. You hardly see this kind of continuity nowadays, although Schools TV did keep up with it, but still-frame pauses like this became shorter and shorter into the 1990's and 2000's. The belief being that, people's attention spans were getting shorter -probably true with younger generations brought up on the internet- and now 100's of channels from satellite competing against the "Big Four" or the ahem, "Big Five". You only get this type of continuity on "Ceefax" on the early hours of BBC2 mornings, now and again. Isn't there times, you want the TV of today to take a chill pill? We don't want to be informed all the time, being shown your big flashy graphics, and editing camera angles every millionth of a second. It can sometimes get annoying or depressing. What's wrong with listening and watching to nice music, while you're mind wanders, giving you time to think, on perhaps, the previous TV viewings or, what's to come, or maybe it allows you into some deep philosophical though about your own life. Some will say, "Just turn the TV off then", however, a minority of people say " You just don't understand".
Yes, "Sesame Street" was an American show but it was a large part of some British children's childhood and should not be detracted from UK TV nostalgia! So anything goes here, if the programme is mainstream and well-known. The series was one of the first to entertain as well as educate, not basic stuffy professors in stuffy studio's telling us how the world works. Learning can be fun, as proved by Sesame Street. We'll be seeing more of this show in later posts.
Saturday, 30 January 2010
BBC Normal Schedules are Awashed as Kennedy is Assassinated
BBC President Kennedy death continuity 1963
The assassination of US president John F. Kennedy is one those news events of "where were you when the news hit?". On the 22nd November 1963, the 35th president of the United States was shot in the back and then the head, while in a open-top car procession in Dallas, Texas. Not much to say about this clip, also profiling the UK weather, squashed in-between the replacement of normal scheduled programmes, for a Kennedy tribute and more changes over the course of the weekend as announced by the typically well-spoken announcer. The clip is of good ident and ends with a non-fancy schmancy graphical, real-as-real BBC clock ident.
The assassination of US president John F. Kennedy is one those news events of "where were you when the news hit?". On the 22nd November 1963, the 35th president of the United States was shot in the back and then the head, while in a open-top car procession in Dallas, Texas. Not much to say about this clip, also profiling the UK weather, squashed in-between the replacement of normal scheduled programmes, for a Kennedy tribute and more changes over the course of the weekend as announced by the typically well-spoken announcer. The clip is of good ident and ends with a non-fancy schmancy graphical, real-as-real BBC clock ident.
Sunday, 17 January 2010
ITV Broadcasts It's First Nationwide Corporate Branding in 1989
ITV 1989 Generic Idents
Before 1989 on ITV, the various TV regions around the UK, broadcasted their own ident, such as you're Central, Yorkshire, Thames, London Weekend Television, Scottish & Grampian, broadcasted under their own names and idents. This is probably my favourite ITV look because I find it more boombastic, than it's more subtle and blander re-tunes in the late-90's and 2000's. Either that or I'm just old. It's the music I like the best and the graphic morphing at the beginning works well too. Some regions refused the corporate image such as The Channels, Ulster, Anglia and TVS, however, other regions outwith "The South" which already had strong branding like Grampian and Yorkshire, opted out of this generic approach gradually.
This is a rather long clip, but you really have to watch only the first 30 seconds, because it's really the same one over and over again, but with the "V" in ITV, in different colours, representing the various regions colours.
Before 1989 on ITV, the various TV regions around the UK, broadcasted their own ident, such as you're Central, Yorkshire, Thames, London Weekend Television, Scottish & Grampian, broadcasted under their own names and idents. This is probably my favourite ITV look because I find it more boombastic, than it's more subtle and blander re-tunes in the late-90's and 2000's. Either that or I'm just old. It's the music I like the best and the graphic morphing at the beginning works well too. Some regions refused the corporate image such as The Channels, Ulster, Anglia and TVS, however, other regions outwith "The South" which already had strong branding like Grampian and Yorkshire, opted out of this generic approach gradually.
This is a rather long clip, but you really have to watch only the first 30 seconds, because it's really the same one over and over again, but with the "V" in ITV, in different colours, representing the various regions colours.
Saturday, 2 January 2010
Belated New Year Programming...
BBC2 Continuity into New Year 1997 & Start of Hootenanny
The first edition of the Ident and Continuity section, welcome! It's the turn of the New Year of 1997, when a thinner-looking, almost live Jools Holland presents his annual Hootenanny, the same format as "Later...with Jools Holland", but an extra treat with a bumper assemble of musicians to please us, as well as a variously boozed-up celebrity ridden-audience in some jovial banter segements. A frankly cooler alternative to the BBC 1's tartan-sozzled - and still is, to this day - Carol "Changing Rooms" Smiley, and Gordon "stooooneeybridge" Kennedy, presenting superteam. Other programmes featured in the continuity, were "The O Zone", "Brothers and Sisters" "The Simpsons" and "Singled Out". I remember "Singled Out", it was god awful.
The first edition of the Ident and Continuity section, welcome! It's the turn of the New Year of 1997, when a thinner-looking, almost live Jools Holland presents his annual Hootenanny, the same format as "Later...with Jools Holland", but an extra treat with a bumper assemble of musicians to please us, as well as a variously boozed-up celebrity ridden-audience in some jovial banter segements. A frankly cooler alternative to the BBC 1's tartan-sozzled - and still is, to this day - Carol "Changing Rooms" Smiley, and Gordon "stooooneeybridge" Kennedy, presenting superteam. Other programmes featured in the continuity, were "The O Zone", "Brothers and Sisters" "The Simpsons" and "Singled Out". I remember "Singled Out", it was god awful.
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