04-01-2023, 05:15 PM
Actually, the current 'Down titles were introduced at the beginning of 2012.
The 2005 titles *were* basically just the 2001 ones without the clips of Whiters and Vorders, and the 2009 titles *were* just the 2005 ones coloured blue rather than pink.
But I'd argue that the current titles are a fair bit different from these, despite featuring the same logo and the same concept of letter and number tiles floating around in space.
As regards makeovers, the original Fifteen-to-One underwent two in the last three-and-a-bit years of its life - first the titles, graphics and theme tune were all changed in September 2000 (the 12-year-old me was disappointed upon hearing the jazzy version of the theme for the first time, and the now nearly 35-year-old me still much prefers the original), before a whole new set was introduced in September 2001 (purple in colour rather than blue, monitors for the players' names and numbers, and podiums 7, 8 and 9 moving forward to become the podiums for the final). The takeover of Regent Productions by Pearson TV/FremantleMedia can't have been a coincidence.
The 2005 titles *were* basically just the 2001 ones without the clips of Whiters and Vorders, and the 2009 titles *were* just the 2005 ones coloured blue rather than pink.
But I'd argue that the current titles are a fair bit different from these, despite featuring the same logo and the same concept of letter and number tiles floating around in space.
As regards makeovers, the original Fifteen-to-One underwent two in the last three-and-a-bit years of its life - first the titles, graphics and theme tune were all changed in September 2000 (the 12-year-old me was disappointed upon hearing the jazzy version of the theme for the first time, and the now nearly 35-year-old me still much prefers the original), before a whole new set was introduced in September 2001 (purple in colour rather than blue, monitors for the players' names and numbers, and podiums 7, 8 and 9 moving forward to become the podiums for the final). The takeover of Regent Productions by Pearson TV/FremantleMedia can't have been a coincidence.