BBC One Christmas 2021

Shaun the Sheep and friends turn on the tree lights in an evening variation of one of several idents animated by Aardman for Christmas 2021 on BBC One. Aired here into the 7.40pm junction on December 4th.

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BBC One Northern Ireland's first airing of the tree light ident, from 7.40 on December 4th 2021.

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BBC One Scotland used the same ident and followed a very similar script in their first airing of the tree lights ident into the 7.40pm junction on December 4th.

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BBC One Wales' version of the tree lights ident for Christmas 2021 with Shaun the Sheep, first aired here into the 7.40pm junction on December 4th.

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One limitation of the 2021 festive package was that the idents produced were all 'time of day' based, leaving only two idents that could be used at each section of the day. One with the Aardman characters, and a news-safe variant without any characters. This lack of variety led to the news safe ident being used by most of the other nations earlier into light entertainment programming on launch day, although network waited to use it first before the more serious 'Casualty'.

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BBC One Northern Ireland's version of the 'news safe' evening ident. First used into that very serious programme on Saturday December 4th... Blankety Blank.

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BBC One Scotland's version of the news safe evening ident for Christmas 2021 was also first used into 'Blankety Blank' on launch day.

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The news-safe evening ident as it appeared on BBC One Wales. Like the other nations, this was first aired in Wales before an episode of Blankety Blank rather than anything particularly serious.

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In the regular morning ident for Christmas 2021, Shaun The Sheep and friends are busy erecting the Christmas tree. Network version here.

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BBC One Northern Ireland's version of the 'Morning' non-news-safe ident, featuring characters putting up the Christmas tree.

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The non-news-safe morning ident for Christmas 2021, as it appeared on BBC One Scotland.

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BBC One Wales' version of the morning 'non-news' ident, featuring characters as well as the tree.

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The news-safe variant of the 'morning' ident for BBC One Network during Christmas 2021.

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BBC One Northern Ireland's version of the news-safe morning ident.

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The Christmas 2021 news safe morning ident as it appeared on BBC One Scotland.

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BBC One Wales' morning version of the news safe ident for Christmas 2021.

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For the late afternoon into early evening junctions, the sun begins to set as more decorations are added to the tree in the non-news-safe version of the ident.

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BBC One Northern Ireland's version of the 'Sunset' ident, with the characters interacting with the tree and skiing past.

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The non-news-safe sunset ident for Christmas 2021, as it appeared on BBC One in Scotland.

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BBC One Wales' non-news version of the sunset ident, featuring all the characters interacting with the tree.

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Like the other times of the day, the news safe version of the sunset ident features just the tree without any characters.

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The sunset news-safe ident for Christmas 2021, as it was used on BBC One Northern Ireland.

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BBC One Scotland's version of the sunset news-safe ident for Christmas 2021.

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The news-safe sunset version of ident for BBC One Wales.

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An example of the updated End Credit Promotion style for BBC One for Christmas 2021. Much the same as before, just with the addition of snow.

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