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Sigh...again, the reliance of programme-specific idents is not a good sign, with or without re-used ones. I like the Julia Donaldson/Axel Scheffler shows, but the idents, whilst perfectly well made, aren't all that to me. The Gruffalo one is a tad better simply because it's more Christmassy with the show, but the Zog one isn't really.

Why is it so hard to adapt the Lens concept for a new Christmas ident? Money isn't an excuse because it was never an excuse for the last 50 years. It's laziness.

Sorry, sorry, I know, normal rant again.

Agreed on all of this. As Brekkie mentioned, it's baffling why they wouldn't think ahead and film some Christmassy alternates for at least some of the Lens idents. If they had a Christmas set to match the current look, they could easily wheel those out every Christmas and I doubt anyone would bat an eyelid, especially if it was presented as a cost saving initiative. They could even still make one or two new programme specific idents for certain junctions or blocks if needed - like they've done with Strictly etc in the past - but having a 'core' regular Christmas set would take off pressure and costs of having to make a full set of idents every year.