A Christmas 2003 Presentation Retrospective
This year's Christmas presentation on the terrestrial channels was a mixture of the dull and not-quite-so-dull:
BBC One: This year was essentially the same as last Christmas, though the 'children' ident is arguably the best implementation of the current 'music and movement' theme. Overall 6/10.
BBC Two: A new ident (a '2' encased in a block of ice moves around a bit) joins some older seasonal favourites for a mixture of old and new. Not classic but OK - 7/10.
ITV1: If you can stand the horribly generic presentation of modern day ITV1 this was a reasonably good attempt especially compared with some previous offerings (even allowing for the celeb idents) and was sadly much better than most of the programmes. 7/10.
Channel 4: Basically the same as last year, though I've seen worse Christmas presentation used and the 'blizzard' effect was at least festive. A mediocre 4/10.
Five: I suppose that the channel was trying to be surreal this year with a prominent use of a "roadsign" ident based on a longer promo with the theme "Coming Home For Christmas" (also echoing the UKTV "Come Home" campaign to a degree), though the channel used in-vision continuity featuring Ronnie Corbett for its classic comedy night on Boxing Day. A respectable if hardly groundbreaking 6/10.
