[Kojak]

I seem to be in the minority who really enjoy Channel 4's stopgap (?) ident with the colourful backgrounds. Incredibly simple, but it's versatile, easy on the eye, a pleasure to listen to.

Signature jingles, too. They seem to have vanished.

I think if they had more variants of it (just simply different colour combinations) it would work better, but for me where it fails is the animation of the 4 logo itself looks very cheap.

I'd love to see a new incarnation of the original logos, perhaps in real world locations, with a concept similar to the brilliant SF1 idents of a few years back.

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Most of all a bit more ambition in the idents - although I don't think ITV's latest set quite hits the mark it is at least a bit more ambitious than it first appears, both in the design and in the concept.   The BBC2 curves are still the best of the bunch in recent years and show how functional doesn't have to be boring (hello C5!)

I actually think they'd do well to just more or less bring back the original idents. Obviously they'd have to be updated (maybe different colour backgrounds and/or combinations of the blocks, and a more modern version of Fourscore) but even so, I think returning to a version of the original idents would be a much needed return to basics, garner a lot of goodwill, and - especially after last year's aborted privatisation debacle - remind people 'we are Channel 4, and this is who we are'. 

That being said, I think the secondary idents from 2015 as used for the likes of 4 News and The Simpsons were a missed opportunity. That idea was so versatile - they could have made dozens of idents with that idea, which could have run for years. They could, and should, have been the next '2' idents.