HIT Entertainment: Difference between revisions

*On US prints and releases of their material, the text along the side just says "'''ENTERTAINMENT'''" slightly spaced out, and a TM mark appears in the upper right corner. The byline also is modified to reflect the  

* From 2001-2003, the logo had a slightly different, still look. The text along the side had a different font, the glow had a flatter look to it, no bylines appeared, and the globe is darker in color.  

*On the 2004 restored versions of seasons 1-5 of ''Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends'' (the 1998 remastered versions still use the [[The Britt Allcroft Company|Britt Allcroft]] logo), there is a white background. On the top half it says "A Britt Allcroft Company Production" with the company's logo in between the words "Britt" and "Allcroft" and on the bottom half is the HIT Entertainment logo. In between them is the word "For". Under all that is a copyright notice that says "(C) 1984-2003 Gullane (Thomas) Limited. All rights reserved". Post-2006 releases of the DVD have this logo replaced with the next logo, with the copyright notice intact.

*On 2004-06 episodes of ''Thomas & Friends'' and its related home videos (at least in the UK), there are several versions of the logo. Copyright info is below:  

**The first variation is seen on individual episodes and airings. It has the copyright notice for every episode per year of release (2003, 2004, 2005 or 2006) and the disclaimer about the series.

**The second variation is seen on several home videos, such as ''Hooray for Thomas and Other Adventures''. It has the copyright notice for the episodes (2003, 2004, 2005 or 2006) and the disclaimer about the series. (The font of the copyright notice is the same as the collaboration with Nick Jr.)

**The third variation is seen on several PBS airings. It is similar to the first two variations, but instead of the cloudy sky as the background, the {{Color|blue}} original background is seen on the logo.

**The fourth variation is seen on ''Thomas' Halloween Adventures''. The copyright notice used from the restored formats of previous seasons is used, along with the North American disclaimer.

**The fifth is used for ''Thomas & Friends: Calling All Engines!''. The logo is placed on the original background, with the words "Thomas the Tank Engine, Created for Television by BRITT ALLCROFT" plus the 2005 copyright notice and disclaimer below the logo.

**The first variation uses the logo with the URL and byline, with the copyright notice "© 1984-2003 Gullane (Thomas) Limited. All rights reserved." below the byline. (seen on season 6)

**The second variation uses the logo with the URL and byline, but with the title "Thomas & Friends" on top of the logo, and the copyright notice "(C) 2003 Gullane (Thomas) Limited" on the bottom of the byline. (seen on season 7)

**The third variation is the logo with the Nick Jr. logo. It has the copyright notice "(C) 2002/2003 Gullane (Thomas) Limited" on the bottom of the logo, and sometimes the words "Produced in association with Nickelodeon UK" can be seen on top of the logos. The background is a cloudy sky, which is also used in the next three seasons. This is seen on episodes aired via Nick Jr. in the UK.

** There is another version of the logo with just the URL. The URL is slightly shifted down to where usually the byline is placed. The URL is also in bold, which would be later used in the HD version of the logo.

**The logo is bylineless on CITV repeats of ''Kipper'', ''Angelina Ballerina'', ''Thomas & Friends'' and ''Percy the Park Keeper.'' It is also seen on original USA PBS airings of 2004-2006 episodes of ''Bob the Builder'' and ''Barney & Friends'', and the retail DVD release of ''Children's Favorites: Spring Made Fun!''

*The direct-to-video (Netflix,  Hulu, etc.), and some international versions of the 10th season episodes of ''Barney & Friends'', along with its related retail home videos from 2005-07 (such as ''Can You Sing That Song?'' (VHS version only), ''Let's Go to the Beach'', ''Let's Make Music'' and ''Let's Go to the Firehouse'') uses a short-lived HD version of the logo, with its URL and byline in bold (This is the final variation of the standard logo). The PBS and Sprout versions use the next logo (still or original). Universal Kids (in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Brazil) reairings of this season also use this HD logo.

*On ''The Magic Key'', a small version of the logo is seen on a black background above the 1997 BBC logo. Copyright and website info is below.

*A special bumper was used exclusively on ''HIT Entertainment Children's Favorites Vol. 1'' (2004) before each episode. It starts off normally with both the URL and byline in their respective places, but the background fades into a zooming space backdrop as all the text disappears and the globe becomes more lifelike and starts to spin. The HIT text then zooms closer before it disappears as the globe moves to the centre. A circle playing a clip from the upcoming show then peeks out from behind the globe on either the left or right side and zooms towards the screen before moving in the opposite direction. All other volumes in the series use the standard logo.

*Some home videos of ''Barney & Friends'' (starting from ''Let's Go to the Farm'' (2005), until ''Let's Go to the Firehouse'' (2007), and again on ''Best Fairy Tales'' (2010)) have a synthesized jingle that was used either at the beginning, at the end, or after the feature presentation.

**Similarly, a version with a long, held choir note can be seen on the aforementioned ''Let's Go to the Firehouse''.

*On an early 2000s print of ''Felix the Cat'', the 1989 HIT Communications PLC music is used.