A Better Bang


The Big Bang has undergone a complete re-vamp.

There are improvements at every level of the programme, from an entirely new set, right down to a new logo. The theme tune is currently being given a 21st Century remix and having a real brass section added. There are changes and improvements to the content of the programme too. Get ready to meet two new regular characters Teloiv and Hterag, a pair of visiting aliens played by Gareth and Violet, in a new strand new to the programme called Invasion Earth!


"Oh! yes this series is going to be quite daft in places, and all the better for it," said Gareth during rehearsals. "But it will still be packed to the limit with great nuggets of information and tremendous things for the viewers to do at home after the programme."

One thing remains the same though, the programme will still be fronted by Gareth and Violet.


The title sequence for the Big Bang has moved on to its 3rd generation. Working in front of a blue screen (or chromakey) background, a series of fantastic scenes were shot with Violet and Gareth bashing the living daylights out of each other in a cartoon like fashion. State-of-the art computer generated imagery is used to flatten, stretch, distort and explode the two presenters in for sequence which means that each programme starts with a bang, a Big Bang!