BBC Studios Home Entertainment: Difference between revisions

BBC Video was formed and established in 1980 as a division of BBC Enterprises to distribute BBC television programmes for home video (later "BBC Worldwide") with John Ross Barnard as head. In 2004, BBC Video merged with Video Collection International (VCI), to create 2 Entertain, although as of 2020, BBC uses their own logos still on releases of their material. Their videos originally went through CBS/Fox Video (from 1985 to 1998) and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (from 1998-2000) for U.S. distribution. The license was taken over by Warner Home Video in 2000. Today, while Warner still owns home media rights to BBC Video, their logo has been replaced by the 2Entertain logo, except on ''Charlie and Lola''. In Australia, their videos were originally distributed by PolyGram Video, before Roadshow Entertainment and ABC Video (the Australian "ABC") took over in 1996.

'''Nicknames:''' "BBC Star", "Cheesy Starlight", "Scanimate BBC"

'''Editor's Note:''' The logo is a favorite of many due to its really nice animation and catchy music, especially the 1984 music.

'''Nicknames:''' "COW Globe", "BBC Globe", "Video Globe"

'''Editor's Note:''' While the logo is not as common as some of the other logos, it's still a unique take on the COW globe at the time.

'''Nicknames:''' "Streaks of Death", "Ominous BBC", "Bring Out the Caskets", "Blue, Red, and Green"

'''Editor's Note:''' It's known as one of the more ominous logos in the logo community due to its somewhat depressing music and black background, combined with the strange-looking BBC logo and limited animation; however, it is a great logo.

'''Nicknames:''' "Streaks of Death 2.0", "Bring Out the Caskets II", "Streaks of Peace", "Blue, Red, and Green II"

'''Editor's Note:''' Its music is still ominous, but the brighter environment and more dynamic movements make it calmer.

'''Nicknames:''' "Square Boxes", "Rainbow Smoke" "BBC Ribbons" "Calm BBC", "Blue, Red, and Green III"

'''Editor's Note:''' This logo is a favorite of many, especially in the UK. There's debate that this logo was originally going to be for the 1988 BBC logo due to the colors being prominent with it, but was changed at the last minute.

'''Nicknames:''' "Flashing Box", "Colour Concentric", "Purple BBC"

'''Editor's Note:''' A decent logo, but it's not as popular as previous ones from the company.

'''Logo:''' We see several white lines stretching and forming a star-like shape, then these separate (explode) and disappear, leaving some of the dots moving, while the BBC logo appears in the center. The dots disappear after a few seconds.