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BBC3 says goodbye to blobs, ushers in new age of crappy neon pink, a nation mourns
The blobs were the most popular thing BBC3 has ever aired, but sadly some bright spark looking to waste taxpayers’ money decided, after sharing a few lines of charlie in the BBC broom cupboard with a few CBBC presenters, that it would be a great idea to ditch the Aardman idents and intros as part of a re-branding of the channel to make it more in tune with a ‘yoof’ audience (I’m much too old to be watching it apparently, despite paying the licence fee).
The blobs will be sorely missed and long remembered by millions with fondness and regret at their passing into history.
The new channel idents are completely unappealing, neon-pink affairs eschewing all personality and humour in favour of trying to be achingly hip. BBC3 now keeps forcing bouncy, effervescent, and completely unlikeable presenters onto the poor unsuspecting viewers as well. It all comes across as being some middle-aged man’s vision of what programming for the young ought to be: vacuous, vividly-coloured, wacky, and migraine-inducing.
Wacky. I really don’t like that word.
Things will never be the same again. As Joni told us, and Janet later needlessly repeated, you don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone.
That said, the pilot episode of Being Human–the story of a vampire, werewolf and ghost sharing a flat—showed a lot of promise, being genuinely scary at times, as well as darkly comedic. Here’s hoping a series is commissioned.
But where was I? Ah yes. Bring back the blobs! For now, enjoy the clips. It’s hard to single out a favourite but I do constantly find the one where the woman is asked what she’s doing, and she replies that she thought it was obvious, very funny indeed. It doesn’t come across just written like that—you have to watch it to see and hear why it’s as funny as it undoubtedly is. Yep, I never get bored of that one…
