19-07-2023, 02:49 PM
(19-07-2023, 02:40 PM)JAS84 Wrote: Over the last couple of days, I've seen ATV's logo on a Bullseye episode, and Central idents on both Bullseye (the original 1982 one) and Family Fortunes (the cake). I'm surprised they weren't chopped off and replaced by the modern ITV Studios logo!
AFAIK the practice of replacing idents/production slides by distributors sort of stopped about 15 years ago - most either do nothing or add an additional logo after now. Carlton, Granada and Fremantle were the worst offenders for this.
Sadly plenty of copies still in playout which have the replaced versions - Carlton International has now been a dead brand far longer than it was a thing but still shows up a lot of the time on repeat channels.
Challenge in the 00s were also very much in to chopping episodes down for time, in the case of some Bullseye episodes to ribbons in fact, and obviously any interesting pre-roll post-roll stuff would have been lost in that cull. Sadly these versions of some series still linger on too.
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