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Lana Petrovna, a fictional presenter

Lana Petrovna

Presenter · fictional

Presents Name the Show films, and was one of the three in Welcome to TV Titles, the film that introduced the channel.

A fictional presenter, generated for these films. Not a real person, and not based on one.

Appears in

  • 7 Name the Show films on the TVTitles channel ↗. Which film is which show is the game, so it is not said here.
  • Welcome to TV Titles, with the other two presenters — watch it ↗.

Favourites

Every show Lana has made a film about, most recent first. They are added as her films come out.

Still from the opening titles of Babylon 55 sequences

Babylon 5

1993–1998Syndication / TNTSci-Fi

Five seasons, five openings, and each one changes who is allowed to speak. The monologue passes from the station's first commander to his successor to his second-in-command, then splinters across the whole cast, then stops being a monologue at all.

  • Season 1
  • Season 2
  • Season 3
  • and 2 more
Still from the opening titles of Severance2 sequences

Severance

2022–Apple TV+Sci-Fi

A man walking through his own head, drawn as a corporate-training diagram that keeps folding back into itself. Oliver Latta's animation, and the best argument in years that a title sequence can be the thesis.

  • Season 1
  • Season 2
Still from the opening titles of Ozark2 sequences

Ozark

2017–2022NetflixCrime

Five glyphs inside the letter O — a boat, a gun, a cross, a bird, a body of water — chosen for the episode they introduce. The title card is a table of contents.

  • Season 1
  • Season 2
Still from the opening titles of Silicon Valley5 sequences

Silicon Valley

2014–2019HBOComedy

An animated Bay Area skyline of tech-company headquarters, rebuilt every season to match who was winning that year. The joke only works because it kept being updated — logos appear, get acquired, and vanish between seasons.

  • Season 1
  • Season 3
  • Season 4
  • and 2 more
Still from the opening titles of Battlestar Galactica3 sequences

Battlestar Galactica

2004–2009Sci-Fi ChannelSci-Fi

The only title sequence on this site that reports the plot. Under the Gayatri Mantra and the Cylon text, the American version ends on a count of the surviving human population — a figure recalculated for each episode, so the titles get worse as the show goes on.

  • Seasons 1–2
  • Season 3
  • Season 4
Still from the opening titles of Twin Peaks2 sequences

Twin Peaks

1990–1991, 2017ABC / ShowtimeDrama

A bird, a sawmill blade and a waterfall, over Angelo Badalamenti at a tempo no network would approve today — ninety seconds of a town being described before anyone in it speaks.

  • Seasons 1–2
  • Season 3
Still from the opening titles of True Detective4 sequences

True Detective

2014–HBOCrime

Double-exposure portraits where the landscape is projected onto the people. Every season is reshot from scratch, so the titles change as completely as the cast does.

  • Season 1
  • Season 2
  • Season 3
  • and 1 more

The other presenters: Nora Blythe and Scarlett Vale.