[ViridianFan]

The 2001 set is lovely and a simple concept executed well. Something a bit lower key and understated would be a welcome change. It doesn't always have to be a big expensive animation chopped up into sections for idents.

For the lens idents, they could have a living room scene at different times of the day, like present opening, watching TV together and party games in the evening with the focal point of each scene being the tree.

With the cost of living situation, it would seem out of touch if they did a big OTT Christmas package, so going the more simpler understated look would likely be welcomed.

I loved those 2001 Christmas idents. It’s funny when ever I think of Christmas i instantly have 4 idents which spring into my mind:

[*]1997 - 12 days of Christmas was so simple but also amusing (the lords a leaping) it felt Christmassy 
[*]2000 - with the balloon over the city scape with the presents floating down. The music is dramatic but magical. That one always makes me teary eyed (who knows why)
[*]2001 - i just loved it. The little dog and dinosaur always made me smile and again the music 
[*]The music in the dancer era. I think it was the jolleiness about it. 


With the exception of the 1997 idents (although you could argue that the balloon colours were there), they were fitted with the channel’s look at the time so it was more BBC1 at Christmas whilst now it’s more BBC1 Christmas. It’s like when I decorate my house I add decorations to my house I don’t totally redecorate my house. 

I do like the idea of 2 weeks before and then Christmas effects on the Christmas trails for the Christmas programs and normal for the others. It’s always been slightly irritating when they’re trailing new shows in January with the Christmas trail pattern, just use the normal one. 

The other thing I’ve always found odd is how New Year’s Day there is nothing. I’ve always thought New Years Eve and New Years Day and 2nd January because Scotland should have a special set of new year idents which come out every year just to mark the new year. They wouldn’t even have to fit with the ident package and they wouldn’t have to be fancy or expensive, the simpler the better but each year they came out so it almost became a tradition.