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BBC World News joined the simulcast coverage for Prince Philip's funeral on April 17th 2021, like many of the other BBC channels. While the others joined in cleanly, BBC World had some bumpy audio issues briefly where speaking could be heard.

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A more sombre soundtrack, previously heard on some of the channel's older idents, is added to the current STV ident footage for their sombre ident. Aired here on the day of the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral, on April 17th 2021.

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On the day of the funeral of Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh, on April 17th 2021, a generic red ident for BBC One made an appearance. Differing from generic ones seen in the past, this was first used across all nations into the 10am junction that day.

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Finally, the BBC One Scotland version of the Duke of Edinburgh 'Family' ident, aired here at 7pm on Friday April 17th 2021.

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A more solemn version of the BBC News Countdown. Used here ever so slightly past the top of the hour to lead into a news simulcast around 11.02am on the day of HRH Prince Philip's funeral, 17th April 2021.

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Continuing the second batch of idents for April, based on the work of Jason Wilsher-Mills and Judith Hope. This first appeared into the 5pm junction on April 16th.

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The next ident from batch 2 of Jason Wilsher-Mills and Judith Hope first aired into the 3pm junction on April 16th.

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Food Network took on the same trailer style as all other Discovery-owned stations in April 2020, using red endboards to match the colourscheme of the channel.

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Roasted meat, pasta and various greens, finishing on shots of asparagus. All to make up a dinner-style ident for Food Network as part of their Spring set of idents. These idents were first introduced in Spring of 2020, and are shown here in Spring 2021.

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A new package of idents were introduced to Food Network in April 2020. Featuring seasonal foods, the ident set rotates every few months with different shots of food for that particular season being depicted. Here a Winter ident from later in 2020, featuring warming potato dishes.

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For Christmas 2020, Food Network had an additional ident mixed in with their winter food set, depicting seasonal foods. This was used with the other idents in the run up to the New Year, before being retired from January 2021.

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For Christmas 2020, Food Network followed the same festive promo style as other stations owned by Discovery, featuring a present tag set against red. Here a full season promo for the channel, ending with a fullscreen slide of the tag and wrapping paper motif.

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A shorter version of one of the Carlton star idents without the full formup, meaning there are no traces of hearts to be seen anywhere. In this variant, the holding state uses more formal shades of blue to lead into the late news in the Central region. Seen here from after the tweak from ITV to ITV1, post August 2001.

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The Welsh variant of the BBC Two Inspiring ident for April 2021, aired into the 9pm junction on April 10th here.

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An example of a general Christmas season promo for Food Network, from Christmas 2019 here. Showing examples of the festive trailer graphics, as well as giving a taste of the shows on the channel that year.

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After a long gap since the last new ident, a fresh new curve was officially added to the set from April 10th 2021 (if you ignore a slightly premature airing by one of the nations a few weeks prior). It was the first new ident to have the 'Channel of the Year' graffiti baked in from the outset, with this overlay having been added retrospectively to other idents since late 2020.

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The dropping of scheduled programming on the day news broke of Prince Philip's death resulted in the appearance of a very rare cross-branded ITV and STV menu slide on air. Aired during the news itself, so with news rather than continuity reading out the revised schedule details for the evening, the slide features ITV's graphical stencil template, but with the addition of an STV logo too.

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A longer playout of the BBC 'Family' ident from the 9pm junction on April 9th 2021, showing a little more of the formup at the start. Although the ident was carried across different BBC channels which were still simulcasting, the same worded announcement was revoiced by different people on different channels.

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The 'Family' ident from the BBC is a special ident, reserved for use in very limited occasions where all BBC channels are simulcasting certain news events. Here it appears into the 7.30pm junction on Friday 9th April 2021, as part of coverage of the death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh earlier that day. Recorded here from BBC Scotland, although it was being broadcast across other BBC channels hence the lack of any channel identifier.

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An example of the 2017 promo style for the Food Network channel, seen here promoting 'Bakers vs Fakers'.

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In a third ident from the 2017 batch for Food Network, a scientest prepares eggs with meticulous attention to detail.

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First introduced in 2015, before being updated with a revised logo in 2017, this set of idents for Food Network were based around various creative characters preparing food. Here a dancer makes cakes and scones in the kitchen in a shorter daytime edit of the ident.

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In another way to reinforce the FilmFour brand of the time on Channel 4, a 'FilmFour Presents' sting existed. Used before prominent showings, it would lead in to background conversation with directors and actors from the movie in question.

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A break bumper based on the Piñata ident shows the scene in the aftermath.

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Based off the coconuts ident, another break bumper for the CITV Channel.

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A break bumper for the CITV Channel, based on the Skateboard ident.

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A Piñata is the focus of this ident, with a now-blindfolded C character attempting to extract goodies.

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A crab, in a possible nod to CITV 1998, knocks some coconuts out of a tree and onto the C character in this ident for the channel.

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A non festive ident for CITV, showing some of the set in use as of 2021, which were first introduced to the channel in 2018. Following the same style with the C as a character, here they appear skateboarding.

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At 5pm on Thursday 1st April, a fifth ident of Jason and Judith's piece for for ITV Creates first aired.

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Ident 3 from Jason Wilsher-Mills and Judith Hope's collaboration for ITV Creates first aired into the 3pm junction.

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The second ident from Jason Wilsher-Mills and Judith Hope as first aired at 2pm on Thursday April 1st 2021.

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A general Christmas promo from S4C in 1991, featuring shots from various shows that would be appearing on the channel over the festive season that year.

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One final news-safe ident for March for ITV Kids Create was also added on Monday 29th, featuring work from Grace, Martha and Katie, with a mix of colours and spots.

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The ITV Kids Create ident for Sunday 28th March featured work from Elodie, Leah and Noah. This junction also came with a memorial announcement read out by continuity rather than played as part of the show.

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For Saturday 27th March, the ITV Kids Create piece feature work from for Friday 26th March featured work from Scarlett, Sidney and Ava. With deserts, underwater scenes and gardens featuring.

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The ITV Kids Create ident for Friday 26th March featured work from Trinity, Harris and Aaisha.

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Horatio, George and Verity provide a mix of colours for Wednesday 24th March on ITV Kids Create.

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In another break bumper for ITV2's 2021 showing of Love Island Australia, Cassie Lansdell features.

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Being a Monday meant March 22nd saw an additional ITV Kids Create news-safe variant for the week. This time with work by Matilda-Rose, Beau and Evie.

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For Sunday 21st March, ITV Kids Create featured work from Maya, Katie and Freya.

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Friday March 19th's ITV Kids Create ident saw work from Ava, Sophia and Izuchi showing smiley faces, rainbows and Is, Ts, Vs and 3s.

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Film4's use of the 'Film Fear' branding around Halloween has a long history dating back to the earliest days of the channel. Here it is being used during another cross-promotional weekend between Channel 4 and FilmFour (as named then) before the premiere of the movie Scream just before Halloween 2000. FilmFour branded events on the main channel would pop up semi-regularly in the early days of the channel, as Channel 4 needed to drive subscriptions to their movie channel. Also shown here is the Stella Artois sponsorship sting at the time.

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For Tuesday 16th March, more coloured patterns and planets appeared on the ITV logo for ITV Kids Create, courtesy of Alfie, Amber and Evie.

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The second new ident for Monday 15th March replaced the news safe ident for that week, with work by Amelia, Ella and Sophie.

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The heart shaped prop makes an appearance in another ITV2 Love Island Australia break bumper. Being held this time by Cartier Surjan.

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Yet another Love Island Australia themed break bumper for ITV2 from Spring 2021, this time featuring Matthew Zukowski.

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The ITV Kids Create ident for Sunday March 14th continued the pattern of collaborative children's pieces by including work from Imogen, Robert and Nilasha.

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The related end of break bumper from ITV2, featuring Gerard Majda again.

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Another Love Island Australia themed break bumper, bringing in the men this time. Gerard Majda features in this one.