I've been slowly updating some banners across tv.com of late. Some of you may have noticed new ones on popular shows: Smallville, Battlestar Galactica and Veronica Mars to name a few. It's always interesting the response to new banners. For example, the Smallville community was thankful to no end, while the BSG gang hardly noticed, too busy debating Baltar's possible Cylon origins I suppose, and the Grey's Anatomy folks seemed more concerned with who wasn't represented (ensemble casts are hard to make banners for!) Anyway, I know that whenever I update banners, I get dozens of requests for new ones for less popular shows, or people who want to submit their own to shows they edit or adore. However, unlike the user sub system we run on GameSpot to supply banners to older games, user-created banners for tv are much more difficult to implement. This is because of the sensitivity of tv and actor images, and the general low quality of available images to work from in the first place. So many shows are from pre-web days, and scanned images from old tv guide covers just don't cut it. We have to be far more careful and selective for tv banners, and a majority of submitted banners that I have recieved, are obviously made with love and effort, but the final results too often are not up to the image quality we demand. So, feel free to request away, and I'll try to get them in the design queue, but they will most likely get a low priority I'm afraid. However, sometimes, you'll get lucky and get one right away.
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