Imagine you settled down to watch your favourite spy-themed drama series, but instead of watching on regular BBC One, you chose the advanced showing on BBC Three. As you might imagine, this means tolerating the usual vile, bright-pink on-screen logo.
But it seems Auntie has decided to go down a different route with its logos now. Instead of using a computer to overlay the graphics, it’s forcing its actors to be ‘inked’ with a massive pink tattoo advertising the channel.
The tattoos are placed dead-centre in the actors’ forehead, and then removed in time for them to do a re-record of the scene for the BBC One showing. It must be painful for the poor souls and I’d imagine the BBC must be paying them quite a chunk extra for such hardship.
I’ve collected together some shots of this new initiative — take a squiz below.
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Poor Harry, not only does he have to run MI5, he’s also lumbered with this undignified tat
![](https://www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/4b3dd9e761c1e2e16ec8de4c8a4a3c6bcc465db0/hub/2008/11/17/1c819730-cbf2-11e2-9a4a-0291187b029a/bbc_dog_ros.jpg?auto=webp&width=644)
Look at Ros — she’s already been through quite a bit, and now this hideous tattoo is messing up her lovely forehead
![](https://www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/1976ee4540a3055bf41866453692e3e4c975d06e/hub/2008/11/17/1c819222-cbf2-11e2-9a4a-0291187b029a/bbc_dog_guest.jpg?auto=webp&width=644)
Look at this chap. He’s only a guest star, but he’s been forced to get tattooed too. Dem’s da rulez, buddy
Seriously, will this on-screen logo madness ever end? I’m sick of having my viewing ruined by these obtrusive, ugly logos.