Cannell Entertainment: Difference between revisions

'''Visuals:''' Stephen J. Cannell types on an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric_typewriter IBM Selectric] typewriter in an office/study area with multiple bookshelves and awards. The camera then pans clockwise from Cannell's face to Cannell's back. Once the camera is towards Cannell's back, Cannell throws the paper that Cannell is typing on over Cannell's head. The paper becomes animated on a black background, and floats downwards towards a stack of animated papers below. The paper "scoops" up the top papers in the stack and forms a "C" as the stack becomes more abstract and the perspective becomes a top-down perspective. The company name (with "Productions" sliding out from below the company name) is formed at the top of the screen.

* Starting in 1993, the company was referred to as "Cannell Entertainment Inc.".

'''Later Variants:''' This logo was updated often: the main difference is with Cannell wearing different clothes as well as aging over the years; new awards in the office added as well; and different offices were used. Here, the concept was always the same, as well as the animation. Depending on the outfit used, here is the list of outfits worn by Cannell over the years:

'''Tribute Variant:''' At the end of the ''Castle'' episode "Punked" (right after the end credits), the 2004 logo is shown. As Cannell is typing, the text "{{Font|Times New Roman|STEPHEN J. CANNELL}}" fades in above and below the text "{{Font|Times New Roman|COLLEAGUE, MENTOR, FRIEND.}}" fades in. As Cannell tosses the paper in the air, the logo fades to the black background as the paper falls. The text in the center "{{Font|Times New Roman|WE'LL MISS YOU, PAL.}}" fades in as the animated paper continues to fall outside of the letterbox format. Note that that it's in a 4:3 letterbox format, due to the 2004 logo being in a 16:9 widescreen format.

* September 24, 1987-October 20, 1990, 2004, October 11, 2010: The 8-note dramatic tune from ''The Greatest American Hero'' early S2 version of the Cannell logo theme is used, but only while Cannell types (the instrumentation consists of violins, French horns, tubular bells and pounding synthesizers). As the camera rotates behind him, the tone becomes more soothing so that it reaches a tense climax. Cannell throwing the paper into the air is punctuated by a calming upward glissando by a string section, combining with the pounding synthesizers used while Cannell types, as the other instruments stop during this time. The highest note of the glissando is held as the background fades to black, and continues for the rest of the logo's duration. As the "C" forms, a rock guitar plays a six-note tune First used on the ''Hunter'' S4 episode "Not Just Another John Doe". ''21 Jump Street'' continued to use this theme until S4 and the first two S5 episodes.

'''Availability:''' Seen on shows produced by Cannell in his lifetime, with each version used in the respective period above. The first show to use this logo is ''The Greatest American Hero''. The in-credit text of Cannell Entertainment was seen on TV movies such as ''Living a Lie'' and ''Highway Heartbreaker''; and the in-credit logos of Stephen J. Cannell Productions were seen on early episodes of ''Caesar's Challenge''.  

* The 1989 version is seen on the remainder of ''Hunter'', ''21 Jump Street'', ''Wiseguy'', and all further shows produced by Cannell (such as most of ''Renegade'' and the first five seasons of ''Silk Stalkings'', among others).