BBC Two 50th Year Presentation

Ah-ha. The longer-than-usual anno on the Swan symbol may have been because I had some extra time available that morning and asked the announcer for a "flowery announcement" to fill time

Other old idents are primed to join the current revival aswell......

Do you know which ones?

Car shown on NI, before QI XL.

(... and Wales showed 28 seconds worth of Predator).

The Box looks snappier smaller. It actually looks quite nice.

Yeh, I always think it looks nice on the Christmas idents at that size; the normal one's going to look ridiculously oversized when the standard idents come back.


...if they come back.

Let's hope they don't. They still look so fresh and so well produced. The box looks much better smaller with the BBC logo and TWO transparent.

Has Kebab come back?

They could more than get away with using the Millennium set today. It's just regrettable that they would appear next to the hideous endboards, etc they seem stubbornly reluctant to do anything about.

Just returning the trail style to the extremely simple pre-2007 format would be preferable.

Yes I agree. Not sure the likes of Paint, Powder and Blade would sit well today. Whilst beautiful, I think they look very 90s.

Have the old idents been in regular circulation? When was the last time an ident from the current set got used?

Zoetrope popped up a few weeks ago, other than that...


I haven't been watching BBC2 that regularly until the past week, where all I've seen is either the Fluffy 2 birthday idents or Swan and Predator. I was under the impression the birthday idents were being gradually phased out around May/June time (when they seemed to be more mixed in with the regulars) but since at least the beginning of the month they're being used everywhere.

And according to jumpinjack there are more retro idents to come, which sounds like we won't be seeing the usuals for a while.

It's quite a good way to reintroduce the classic idents without admitting that the current batch aren't a patch on what went before