Foxtel Productions

Background
Foxtel Productions is the production company of Foxtel, an Australian pay television company that acts as a joint venture between the old News Corporation (Fox) and Telstra. They didn't produce much original programming at first, but now they produce it actively.

1st Logo (2007-2012)
Visuals: On a black background, we see a light shining from left to right, revealing the FOXTEL logo in red-orange. Below it are "ORIGINAL" and "PRODUCTION", both in. Copyright information is below. The entire logo fades out a little ways into the logo.

Technique: 2D animation

Audio: A whoosh.

Availability: Seen on The WAG Nation.

Legacy: This logo has been hated by several due to its simplistic nature compared to past logos.

2nd Logo (2012-2016)
Visuals: On a black- gradient background, a searchlight shines and reveals the FOXTEL logo in. The text "made for" is above the logo. Copyright information is below. The logo shines. The light and "made for" then fade out and the logo itself fades out a couple of seconds later.

Variant: In 2014, the logo was enhanced with better animation. In this version everything fades out at the same time.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: Same as before. The newer version has a angelic choir added to the whoosh.

Availability: Was seen on numerous shows and programming which includes Selling Houses Australia and The Real Housewives of Melbourne.

3rd Logo (2016-June 8, 2017)
Visuals: On a dark background, we see a spotlight turning up. The background then shows up to be a mix of bright colored spotlights with the FOXTEL logo and "Original" seen below it. The logo shines. A few seconds later the spotlight turns off, making the screen dark again.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: A faint and lush ding sound effect.

Availability: Seen on shows during this time period such as the Australian version of Whose Line is it Anyway.

Legacy: Similar to the 4th logo, many don't like this due to its simplistic nature.

4th Logo (June 8, 2017-)
Visuals: On a dark gradient blue background, we see letters all in lower case slide in from different directions in their positions to reveal the phase "foxtel original" in a Futura-style font. The logo then slides out the same way and in its place, Foxtel's logo (six dots forming an abstract "f") slide in in its place.

Variants:
 * An opening variant exists that has both the letters and the abstract "f" slide in together and remain on screen.
 * Beginning in August 2018, the abstract "f" was removed from both the opening and closing variant. Both variants just have the "foxtel original" text animate in as before, as part of a minor rebrand launched with the iQ4set top box.
 * Starting on July 21, 2019, the background was changed to a vibrant orange. No other changes were made.

Technique: 2D animation.

Audio: None.

Availability: The new branding was revealed on June 6, 2017 and was first seen as an on-screen production logo on June 8, 2017 on season 7 episode 7 of Grand Designs Australia. Future productions should have this logo.

Legacy: Like the 4th and 6th logo, this one is considered poor due to its simplicity and cheapness. Some have compared it to the current Starz Originals logo because of this.

5th Logo (2021-)
Visuals: We see the "FOXTEL" letters and its shadow, then when the shadow retracts into the letter, it's drawing itself into orange. And at the same time, we see the word "Originals" drawing itself.

Variant: A longer version exists, with an extended version of the shadow and different colors when the shadow retracts.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: A brief crescendoing string note.

Availability: Seen on current shows that Foxtel are producing which includes season 9 and onwards of Wentworth.