Blakeway Productions

Credits

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Background

Blakeway Productions is a British television production company that mostly produces documentaries.

1st Logo (1994-1997)

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Visuals: On a light brown wall background, the stacked text "BLAKEWAY PRODUCTIONS" is inside a red box with an outline wrapping over it. Additional co-producers' credits or logo may appear underneath.

Technique: A computerized graphic.

Audio: The ending theme of the programme.

Availability: So far, it can be seen on Naked City 4: The Day of Reckoning.

2nd Logo (October 19, 1997-2006)

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Visuals: There is the stacked text "BLAKEWAY PRODUCTIONS" from last logo in a thinner format, with "PRODUCTIONS" being smaller and a different box, which is a beveled blue rectangle.

Variants:

• In the logo's early years, it was placed on a rippling blue-tinted background containing the text from the logo. Soon after fading in, so does the logo and additional in-credit info.
• On early 2000's programmes co-produced with Channel 4, "PRODUCTIONS" is gold.
• On rare instances, the company is called "BLAKEWAY ASSOCIATES".
• Starting in 2005, a byline reflecting the company's ownership by Ten Alps is shown, reading "A Ten Alps company".

Technique: None for most of the variants. The early variant has the background rippling.

Audio: The ending theme of the programme or none.

Availability: Can be seen on Royals and Reptiles, Children of Crime, The Improbable Mr. Attlee, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, among many other factual shows and documentaries. Many programmes from this period aren't available since their runs on television.

3rd Logo (2006-2013)

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Visuals: Inside a rectangular box, layers of swiftly moving lights and several colored quadrilaterals rotate and face the screen, overlapping each other. One long rectangle consisting of a blue-dodger blue gradient, would flip over and fill most of the box as the other rectangles and lights pass by. One light flashing by would reveal the byline "a Ten Alps company" underneath. As for the box, it has the letters "BLAKEWAY" slide across one another to their positions forming the company name.

Variants:

• Still and shortened versions exist.
• Sometimes, the logo is bylineless.
• The logo may be more vibrant.
• A variant which has the logo gridded also exists.
• On the Dispatches documentary "Ryanair Secrets", the logo's byline is boxed in a black box.
• On the Dispatches documentary "Unseen Gaza", the logo has a shadow effect.
• On the Witness documentary "Miss Landmine", the logo is shown within the Al Jazeera logo and is next to said company's.
• Programmes produced by the company's northern division adds "NORTH" next to the company name, widening the box.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: The ending theme of the programme or none.

Availability: Seen on The War of the World, several World War II documentaries such as Hitler and Chamberlain: The Munich Crisis 1938 and Hitler's British Girl, and the Dispatches documentaries "Unseen Gaza" and "Ryanair Secrets", among many others.

4th Logo (2013-2016)

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Visuals: Just the white text "BL^KEW^Y" with the "^"'s resembling the letter "A" and "a Ten Alps company" under the text.

Variants:

• The northern variant has "NORTH" in dodger blue.
• Sometimes, the logo is bylineless.
• Sometimes, this logo also shares the screen with other logos (including the 1997 BBC and 2013 ITV logos).

Technique: A digital graphic.

Audio: The ending theme of the programme or none.

Availability: This can be seen on Prince Philip: The Plot to Make a King, Churchill: The Nation's Farewell, Michael Jackson's Thriller with Ashley Banjo, among several others.

5th Logo (May 31, 2016-March 5, 2022)

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Visuals: The round text "blakeway" is inside a white box outline. Underneath it reads "part of zinc media group".

Variants:

• Blakeway North's variant has "north" in white, widening the box outline like the 3rd logo.
• On the Panorama documentary "Hate on the Street", the byline reads "A Zinc Media Company".
• On Blitz Spirit with Lucy Worsley, the byline reads "a zinc media group company".
• Sometimes, this logo also shares the screen with other logos (including the 1997 BBC and 2013 ITV logos).

Technique: A digital graphic.

Audio: The ending theme of the programme or none.

Availability: No longer current, as proven by the company's website debuting a new logo. It debuted on Revolution and Romance and was seen on Diana, 7 Days That Shook The World, the Panorama documentary "Hate on the Street", and Tony Robinsons History Of Britain, among others.