Supernanny

Name: Supernanny
Genre: Documentary

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Jo Frost arriving by taxi to reorganise a household, every week, for twenty years.

Supernanny kept one opening title sequence, 20 seconds long, across season 4.

At 20 seconds, it opens well under the 37-second median for documentary sequences in this catalogue.

It arrived on Channel 4 in 2004, when Time Team, Peep Show and Wife Swap were also on the network.

The opening titles

20s

Fan upload of the fourth series, from 2007.

2005–ABCDocumentary

The American Strictly, which runs two seasons a year and rebuilds its titles for most of them.

2000–CBSDocumentary

The competition format that rebuilt American primetime, and rebuilds its titles for every location.

2005–FoxDocumentary

Flames, a skull made of a chef's hat, and Gordon Ramsay shouting — the titles tell you exactly what the hour is.

2009–Logo / VH1 / MTVDocumentary

Eighteen seconds that get remade every season — new logo treatment, new track, new set of queens.

2002–Fox / ABCDocumentary

The talent format that ran American primetime for a decade, opening on a spotlight and a logo that spins.

2002–BBC TwoDocumentary

Twenty-one seconds of engine noise and a rock riff — a motoring programme that opens like a trailer for itself.