23-03-2023, 11:57 AM
I thought it was great, if a bit padded out with some unnecessary elements such as the doggy photoshoot and the Cub Scouts drawing pictures. But I understand the budgetary reasons for stretching it to 90 mins.
Getting the original animator back in to create updated titles was inspired. I have a feeling the theme tune was recreated too as it did not contain the sound effects of the original titles and they went to the effort of producing new incidental music. The revival attempt in 2006 only had access to the 'dirty' theme with the title sound effects and they tried to incorporate those into the titles by having the whooshing effects match up with the logo form-up etc.
As has been said it might be the late time slot which makes it feel even longer, and it should be sitting in a a 7/8pm slot. Perhaps the aim was to avoid heavy competition from the other channels. A solid start with 900,000 viewers but I think this would have been higher in a different time slot and perhaps even on a different night.
Getting the original animator back in to create updated titles was inspired. I have a feeling the theme tune was recreated too as it did not contain the sound effects of the original titles and they went to the effort of producing new incidental music. The revival attempt in 2006 only had access to the 'dirty' theme with the title sound effects and they tried to incorporate those into the titles by having the whooshing effects match up with the logo form-up etc.
As has been said it might be the late time slot which makes it feel even longer, and it should be sitting in a a 7/8pm slot. Perhaps the aim was to avoid heavy competition from the other channels. A solid start with 900,000 viewers but I think this would have been higher in a different time slot and perhaps even on a different night.