Ian Morris
Ian Morris loves televisions so much he's been banned from wedding chapels in Las Vegas for trying to marry them. When he's not romancing technology, he can be found watching American TV. Ian likes roast potatoes, but he doesn't like digital rights management.
Tuesday 18 November 2008, 12:16pm
Cruel new BBC branding imposed on stars
Imagine you settled down to watch your favourite spy-themed drama series, but instead of watching on regular BBC One, you chose the advanced showing on BBC Three. As you might imagine, this means tolerating the usual vile, bright-pink on-screen logo.
But it seems Auntie has decided to go down a different route with its logos now. Instead of using a computer to overlay the graphics, it's forcing its actors to be 'inked' with a massive pink tattoo advertising the channel.
The tattoos are placed dead-centre in the actors' forehead, and then removed in time for them to do a re-record of the scene for the BBC One showing. It must be painful for the poor souls and I'd imagine the BBC must be paying them quite a chunk extra for such hardship.
I've collected together some shots of this new initiative -- take a squiz below.
Seriously, will this on-screen logo madness ever end? I'm sick of having my viewing ruined by these obtrusive, ugly logos.
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lolz. Oh dear. I agree with you on the logos though. I could do without a pink "BBC Three" logo in the top of the screen.
Posted by Pokeh on Tue 18 November, 2008 1:41 PM
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I completely agree with you Mr. Morris – I watched Spooks on BBC Three last night, and the annoying logo totally ruined it. Mind you, the attempt to make a falling share price as exciting as an exploding bomb was pretty dreadful too, but the station logo represented the final turd on the smelly pile of crap that was episode 5.
Posted by Jason Jenkins on Tue 18 November, 2008 4:34 PM
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This might well be the funniest thing I've seen today. And there were some cracking Cheezburgers today. I assume this was a result of the Beeb catering for 4:3 viewers a little too much?
Posted by Nate on Tue 18 November, 2008 10:57 PM
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Nate, the problem is partially to do with 4:3 TVs. The DOG is placed in the 4:3 graphics safe area, which means on a widescreen TV it's right in the bloody middle of the picture. But why does it need to be pink anyway?
Posted by Ian Morris on Wed 19 November, 2008 2:25 PM
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Talking of ugly logos - have you seen TV.com lately?
Posted by David on Thu 18 December, 2008 11:54 AM
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