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The final ident from Neequaye Dreph Dsane first aired into the 5pm junction on 22nd October, and features more post-production 'security camera footage' effects.

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The third ident from Neequaye's ITV Creates week first aired into the 3pm junction on Thursday 22nd October, and shows the art for the week being put together.

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The next set of ITV Creates idents to mark Black History Month appeared on Thursday October 22nd at 6am. This time a piece by Neequaye Dreph Dsane shows a painted portrait of his father done against an ITV-shaped wall.

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A programme promo from the Christmas 2019 S4C package. Endboards on promos used shots from the idents again, here featuring the dancing young people.

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A girl blows snow in another break bumper from S4C's 2019 Christmas package.

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Break bumpers for S4C in 2019 took on the same scenes as the idents. Here a woman dances using crutches.

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For Christmas 2019, S4C returned to people idents for their seasonal package. This time featuring various dancers in festive scenes. Young people dance around a present in this ident.

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13 Nights of Frights returned to Really again for Halloween 2020. Whether as a result of the pandemic, or just as a result of Discovery's usual limited interest in pres for the channel, things were scaled back onscreen compared to previous years. Idents and breakbumpers continued in regular form, in the case of idents not even using their appropriate 'haunted' one for most junctions in favour of their normal 'rescue' version. With special presentation being kept to use on trailers and this very rarely used text-based sting,

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One of several idents from the Christmas 2018 S4C package, here featuring the elves busy in the workshop. Different sequences were designed for use at different times throughout the festive period.

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An example of the End Credit Promotion style from S4C as part of their festive package for 2010.

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The break bumper from S4C's Christmas 2010 package, featuring the logo animating away in a 'snow' effect.

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The fifth ident from King Owusu features more construction shots. First aired into the 5pm junction on Thursday 15th October.

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The third ident from King Owusu's week on ITV Creates, which also first appeared at 3pm on Thursday October 15th 2020. Featuring setup shots of the piece for the week.

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The third week of Black History Month on ITV saw work from King Owusu, first appearing at 6am on Thursday October 15th.

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The presentation slide style from S4C in 2010. Commonly used to promote shows coming up next on the channel, but here being used to promote a show on another day.

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A festively adorned slide from the Christmas 2009 package, promoting shows next and later on S4C.

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The break bumper from S4C in 2009 features a simple black on white S4C logo animating down to a dot.

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An example of the Christmas 2009 promo style on S4C, with the stars from the overall package that year featuring alongside festive updates to the endboard. Here the promo gives a rundown of Christmas Day shows on the channel.

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Christmas 2009 presentation on S4C consisted of a large golden star flying around various scenes. This would feature on both the promos, and the idents for that year, with the star being mixed in to local location shots. Here stars fly through the countryside, before finishing at Ty Mawr Lighthouse.

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Channel 5's promo style for this era usually consisted of endboards set in the main signature colours of the channel. Here an orange version, used to promote one of the many films being shown on the channel at the time.

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More scenes mixed in with some slightly garish colours in another ident for Channel 4 Daytime from 2001.

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Special Love Island USA inserts were also filmed on location in the US for use on ITV2. Here one sequence is used as an ECP to promote the final of the series coming up next, however someone doesn't quite manage to apply the ECP template correctly...

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From the other side of the break, the accompany end-of-break bumper for ITV2.

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The accompanying end-of-break version of the above ITV2 break bumper.

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COVID-19 scuppered plans for the UK series of Love Island in summer 2020. However not to miss out completely for the year ITV2 aired the USA version instead in late summer, still producing special break bumpers as they'd normally done when showing their regular version. The first of several bumpers here.

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The fourth ident from Alfie Kungu for his ITV Creates Black History Month contribution.

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Another ITV Creates ident from Alfie Kungu for Black History Month, this time showing some of the setup work for the piece. First aired on October 8th 2020.

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Look North again, but now localised to just the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire region. Presented here by Harry Gration, Christa Ackroyd and Clare Frisby

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Another break bumper from Martial Arts Weekend on Channel 5, here being used during the movie 'Kickboxer'.

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Richard and Judy famously defected from ITV's This Morning to host a new Channel 4 chat show in 2001. Here the pre-launch promotion for their new show in their new home.

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As part of their massive marketing blitz for Spitting Image on Britbox, ITV replaced their regular break bumpers in October 2020 with a number of bumpers promoting both the show and their subscription streaming service.

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The fifth ident for Hamed Maiye's ITV Creates set, as aired from October 1st 2020.

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A third ident from Hamed Maiye's piece for ITV Creates, as aired from October 1st 2020.

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Construction shots of the artwork from Hamed Maiye, as aired from October 1st 2020.

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A special 'Martial Arts Weekend' ident, used on Easter Sunday 2001 to mark a collection of shows and movies on the channel. Here being used into the film Kickboxer.

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An ECP from 2000-2002 in the Channel 5 era. Here using the green colour from their colour bars in the background.

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In another of the many short stings produced for the channel promos, a science themed '1' is attached to this BBC1 promo from late 1993.

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John Kettley provides the forecast covering Christmas Day 1993... and the big question as ever is will it be a white one?

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What should you do if you get stuck in a lift with a food trolley? Steal all those Kelloggs Crunchy Nut Cornflakes of course.

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A mix of the various BBC1 Christmas 1993 graphics breaking up shows in this promo as they run down the full primetime schedule for Christmas Day on the channel. With a mix of comedy specials, EastEnders and the movie premiere of Ghost.

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Sara Pascoe appeared in the special break bumper for the last evening of 'Dave Loves' on Friday 18th September 2020.

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Although festive BBC One idents didn't appear until Christmas Eve throughout the 90s, the festive trailer style would get an earlier and longer outing. In 1993, different animated animals from the polar regions and a santa sleigh make up the style for the year (with a giant 1 always sat somewhere in the background). Here, Polar Bears feature in a trailer for what would be the premiere year of the One Foot In The Algarve special.

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For 16th September 2020, Dave dedicated their evening to Lou Sanders. Here featuring the obligatory special Break Bumper.

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The start of the second week of 'Dave Loves' on 14th September featured Josh Widdicombe with a themed break bumper for the channel to match.

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Birds for all Seasons was a three part series of documentaries focused on the avian world, aired in September 1986 on BBC Two. Featuring narration by Magnus Magnusson and some ghastly music for the opening titles. With apologies for some minor tape distortion at the start.

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Animated crows perform a bouncy cover of Elvis hit 'I'm All Shook Up' in order to remind everyone of just hot great Shreddies are with hot milk.

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For Friday 11th September's special 'Dave Loves' evening, Rose Matafeo features, with an accompanying special break bumper put out on the channel.

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For Wednesday 9th September 2020 Dave devoted their evening to James Acaster, with an accompanying 'Dave Loves' break bumper to match.

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For September 2020, Dave decided to theme nights around the various comedians to have appeared on the channel, dedicating schedules to a personality each evening under the title 'Dave Loves'. As part of this, break bumpers featured a short snippet of that evening's comedian. Here, from Monday 7th September, Romesh Ranganathan features, using a clip of him from his appearance on Taskmaster.

BBC2 Ceefax from January 1987, and the more familiar Ceefax Blue look is in place. Being the more 'in depth' Ceefax on BBC2, there's a lot more of a wider magazine selection of pages, with quizzes and art galore in addition to the usual news and sport you'd expect. As well as the Telesoftware service in the 700s, allowing downloads of listings for compatible micro computers of the 80s. In the news, headlines include the Government refusing to comment on a potential nuclear weapons crash, and concerns continue to grow around fuel supplies in the Soviet.