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Shades of bluey-green make up the HGTV ident this time round.

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Another ident for HGTV, this time using objects in shades of orange and complementary colours.

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In the runup to Discovery's introduction of the HGTV brand to the UK on January 21st, promos were run on the soon to be replaced Home channel. Another channel which had been acquired as part of the UKTV split the previous year.

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A short sting used to lead into an airing of Disney's The Incredibles on BBC Three in 2011, using pre-supplied animation from Disney. In the later years of its life, much of early January on BBC Three would be used to air repeats of movies the BBC had acquired for BBC One over Christmas, allowing them to maximise their investment in film rights even if the films themselves seemed a little out of place on the channel sometimes.

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A fondly remembered animated campaign for Aquafresh from the mid 90s, using the tagline 'Not Just a Pretty Paste'.

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Another generated ITV2 ident example. Despite their apparently 'random' nature, some filmed sequences seem to appear much less frequently in the rotation than others. Carrier bags, tennis balls and bowling pins get a look in this time round

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Ident 4 from Saj Fareed and her team first aired into the 4pm junction on 13th January 2020.

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With the new ident-less weekday junction style having kicked in the previous week, it was 1.30pm before the next airing of an ident on ITV on 13th January, and that was a repeat of the 6am ident. The second ident from Saj Fareed finally aired into the 2pm junction.

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Completing the roundup of Love Island break bumpers for ITV2, this time round Siânnise Fudge appears.

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For this ITV2 break bumper, Sophie Piper features.

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The success of Love Island for ITV2 saw the show moved to two series a year. The start of the winter series in January 2020 brought with it special break bumpers for the channel once more. Connor Durman appears in this one.

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Mike Boateng awkwardly dances for this Love Island break bumper.

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Callum Jones appears in this Love Island break bumper for ITV2.

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A third Love Island bumper, this time featuring Jess Gale (... we think!).

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The green/turquoise and black colourscheme appears in another ident, this time ending on a black background.

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In an easy way of doubling the number of variants, all the refreshed 2020 idents for Paramount Network come with a colour inverted version. Another ident from Paramount using black and gold, only this time inverted.

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Here blue and white are used as colours again, just with their positions inverted.

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The main blue and white colours associated with Paramount's channel presentation elsewhere make up the colours for this ident too.

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5Spike was closed in January 2020, with their programming moved over to Paramount Network. To mark the slightly changed schedule to the channel (and its new lower EPG numbers), a small refresh to the idents on Paramount Network was made, replacing the filmed sequences with solely graphical idents in different colours. Here black and gold.

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The third festive ident from Drama to come from the Christmas 2019 promo was for Pride and Prejudice, starring actress Amelia Fox. Rumour has it ITV3 have been asking around about who took their bell jar too.

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With idents and continuity not being as big on the German stations as the UK, most of the celebrations in Germany were as part of programmes. RTL counts down to midnight as part of their celebrations, before branded graphics come up to wish everyone a Happy New Year.

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Over on sister channel RTL Zwei, a different live countdown was done to mark the New Year - the first under the channel's refreshed image.

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Similar to the previous year, the main Quest channel barely acknowledged the New Year, while sister channel Quest Red made much more of the occasion. This ECP aired barely minutes before midnight on Quest Red on the 31st December, making it their last 2019 announcement.

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Most ITV2 announcements building up to midnight were fairly generic ones about their usual selection of Family Guy showings. However in the 12.30am junction on 1st January, they finally made a brief acknowledgement of the New Year too.

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On the other side of midnight, 4seven's first junction of 2020 was into the 12.40am junction.

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The first announcement from More4 from 2020 aired about 35 minutes later around 12.15am, welcoming people to the New Year.

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12.27am on 1st January saw the first announcement from E4 for the New Year, with continuity sending greetings as well as apologising for not being able to do so bang on midnight for... reasons!

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E4 built up to New Year 2020 with references in several junctions leading to midnight. The announcement from the 11.20pm junction on the 31st.

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Channel 4's spinoff channels were good for acknowledging the New Year changeover to 2020. The last announcement from Film4 aired into the 11.10pm junction on the 31st, talking about their first movie lineup for 2020, before making an end of year announcement.

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At around 1am on the 1st January, Channel 4 made their first announcement for 2020, briefly welcoming people into the New Year.

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Even later into the night in the 1.10am junction on STV, they finally made more acknowledgement of the New Year in the announcement, sending out good wishes.

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The last 2019 announcement from STV aired at 11.30pm on the 31st, and followed their usual tradition of barely acknowledging the New Year, and just scripting the announcement very similar to any other programme junction.

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The first 2020 announcement from UTV was aired shortly after midnight in the 12.10am junction. Still using the Santa ident we'd all grown tired of on the main ITV network many years before.

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UTV had continued to use their old-ITV-style idents throughout 2019, so New Years Eve followed a similar ident pattern to previous years. In the 11pm junction on the 31st, Julian provided a pre-recorded announcement building up towards midnight.

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The first announcement of 2020 on ITV used the version of that week's ITV Creates ident with the confetti cannon exploding, and aired around 12.10am on the 1st January.

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Building up towards midnight on New Years Eve on ITV, with some teasers of the programmes and fireworks to come. From the 11pm junction on the 31st.

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The last announcement for 2019 on the BBC Scotland channel was made into the 11.30pm junction - a simulcast of the Hogmanay show on their main BBC One Scotland.

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The last 2019 announcement on BBC Four was made into the 11.45pm junction on the channel, introducing comedy with Vic and Bob. This would also be the last airing of the Christmas ident for that year.

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After midnight on BBC Two, all nations took the network feed. So the first junction of 2020 at 1.20am was seen by everyone. This junction also signalled the return to non-festive presentation on the channel.

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BBC Two Network made their last announcement for 2019 into the 11.15pm junction on the 31st. This would also be the last junction to use the Christmas branding.

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Local continuity for BBC One Wales returned for the first 2020 startup at 9am, with their customary Good Morning and Happy New Year greetings in Welsh.

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A few minutes after that, BBC One Network (and Northern Ireland and Wales who were taking the feed) closed down for the first time in 2020.

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The first startup from BBC One Scotland for 2020, welcoming viewers at 9am on 1st January. Scotland were the only nation to use a different ident into this junction, opting for Allotment Holders.

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Due to their opted-out schedule, BBC One Scotland continued with local presentation until the end of broadcasting for the night. Here they lead into the late Weather a little after 2.30am, slightly later than billed.

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BBC One Wales also made their first announcement for 2020 in the same junction on January 1st. This would be their last local junction for the night, with subsequent overnight junctions taking network. Llama Trekkers appeared in this junction, the same as Network.

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The first proper junction of 2020 for BBC One Network was around 1am. As well as welcoming viewers to the new year, visually it marked the return to the regular presentation package with Llama Trekkers making an appearance.

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The last announcement from BBC One Northern Ireland for 2019, aired into the 11.25pm junction. Unlike the other nations sharing this junction, they chose to use a different ident for their last airing of the Christmas set, going with the 'Cuckoo Clock'.

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With New Year getting ever closer, the final 2019 junction from BBC One Network aired at 11.25pm. Despite being the last chance to see the Christmas idents for this year too, they repeated the use of the 'Roomba' ident that had appeared in the previous junction.

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The same build-up junction again as aired on BBC One Northern Ireland.

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Building up to midnight on BBC One with talk of how to welcome in the New Year. The lead in to the 10.20pm Graham Norton junction on Network. Only Network, Wales and Northern Ireland were on this same timing.