Carlton Television (1993) - Various Idents
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Many years back on some site called Dailymotion, someone that goes by "LufthansaTerminal" uploaded this video there. As such, for archival purposes I'll be putting it here as well.
Thames is still better tho, mainly because for a while they had Cosgrove Hall (and CH worked on The Fantastic Mr. Fox; that film is a banger)
Carlton's assets are (obviously) owned by ITV plc.
That Queen Elizabeth II puppet still scares the fuck outta me tho-
Ah, what a shame the ageing technology struggled so much with the intense colours of these idents!
A lot of these idents begin with a prolonged wail... for just a few days at the beginning of January 1993, the continuity announcements were sometimes made as that wail played, before the main ident melody and the Londoners appeared, immediately followed by the programme titles. For a couple of weeks, we also heard a second or two of the wail over the break bumper at the start of every commercial break - even during programmes! And the whole effect was cold, distant, and unpleasant. As aimless as the BBC's hot air balloon, but even less cheerful. Combined with a few technical difficulties in the early days, and it really wasn't long before someone decided it should be toned down. From mid-Jan, the ident always played before the continuity announcement, there was a bit less of the wail, and break bumpers were silent. I always liked what they were *trying* to do with this suite of idents, but the execution in practice was just really unpleasant to watch. Even people who didn't care about "the bits between the programmes" heaved a sigh of relief on Fridays when good old LWT came back to our screens with a bang.
Congratulations, you just found lost media. The Queen Elizabeth Ident was originally lost, but you've found it.
Carlton's first and last set of idents are the best they released IMHO, and set the tone for ITV as we know today - style over substance.
Sadly a lot of shows be like that nowadays; focusing so much on the production values and design that they forget the one thing that makes or breaks it: the writing
While you're always watching CARLTON.
iI don’t believe it; several rare idents were under our noses the entire time
They should have got Alfonso Ribiero to do one of these...
Even though wasn't a lover of Carlton as a region (Thames was better livingin London). This makes the current ITV look much better
This Is Carlton Television For London!