Talkback

Background
Talkback Productions was formed in 1981 by Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones and it was one of UK's leading production companies. In 2003, the company was sold to FremantleMedia for £62 million and was merged with Thames Television to form Talkback Thames. On January 1, 2012, FremantleMedia UK split Talkback Thames in four companies with Talkback focusing on comedy.

1st Logo (January 31, 1984-March 17, 2003)


Logo: It's only an in-credit logo saying:

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with "TalkBack" in a bigger and bolder font with flower-shaped holes in the "a"'s. Sometimes, it would have "For BBC TELEVISION" or "for CHANNEL FOUR" and a copyright stamp.

Variants:
 * Sometimes, this logo would be placed outside the credits and have its own card.
 * On The Armando Iannucci Shows, the logo has a byline "A Pearson television company", the talkback logo and "production" are lowercase, and an in credit Channel 4 logo is used rather than "for Channel Four". Also, all are animated: Channel 4's logo fades in first, "talkback" flips in after that, and then the rest of the text fades in.
 * One variant read "A Talkback Features Production"
 * In 2000, the logo is slighty modified with the lowercase "t" and "b".

FX/SFX: The fade-in and fade-out or none.

Music/Sounds: The end theme of the show, or none.

Availability: Seen on such UK shows like Alias Smith and Jones, A Life in Pieces, Murder Most Horrid, Da Ali G Show (UK episodes only) and Nevermind the Buzzcocks, among others.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (February 9, 2003-June 9, 2006)


Logo: On a white background with bits of green on several corners and the top, we have the "talkback" name in green and in bold. Below it would have the "talkbackTHAMES" logo name below and the byline "Part of the FremantleMedia Group" (or "A FremantleMedia Company"), and sometimes below that, the copyright stamp to FremantleMedia.

Variant:


 * Some co-productions would have "PRODUCED BY" above and "for (name/logo of network)" below the Talkback name.
 * Sometimes, the Talkback name was differently reads "talkback~uk".

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: The end theme of the show.

Availability: Seen on reruns of Da Ali G Show (US episodes), Nathan Barley, The Sex Inspectors, Nevermind the Buzzcocks, QI, early episodes of How Clean is Your House? and Monkey Dest, among others.

Editor's Note: None.

3rd Logo (January 1, 2012-2019)


Logo: On a black background we see a green glowing ring with a gray outline and a big white "t". The word "talkback" with the "t" in a bigger and bolder font than the other letters appears below with a byline reading "Part of FremantleMedia UK". The ring rotates around several times.

FX/SFX: The ring rotates.

Music/Sounds: The end theme of the show.

Availability: Seen on the shows created by the former Talkback, such as Celebrity Juice and QI.

Editor's Note: None.

4th Logo (2018-)
Logo: On a dark green background, we see "Talkback" with the "Back" backwards. A sideways chevron shape comes in and pushes the "back" into the "K" in talk". The word "back" then emerges from the K, this time the right way around revealing the new logo, the word Talkback in a similar style to the 1st logo, except that the stars in the "a" and "b" are now hexagons.

Variant: There is a still in-credit version.

FX/SFX: Fairly bland modern graphics.

Music/Sounds: A sound of a VHS tape being inserted into the player, or the ending theme from any show.

Availability: Brand new and current.

Editor's Note: None