Drama

Idents on Drama are a mix of scenes without much of a common theme, with the Drama logo fading in over the end seconds. In this one, a bath full of soapy water overflows. Possibly the same bath that has been running since UK Gold's breakdown captions in 2003. Short version of this ident.

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Short version of the ident with the man looking out from a pier to sea.

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The long version of the pier ident for Drama, and with those extra seconds available to him the man casts a stone out into the sea.

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A man walks through a field towards a woman, with flowers behind his back in this short Drama ident.

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The longer version of the field ident for Drama.

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A ransacked study with the sound of the phone off the hook appear in the short version of this Drama ident.

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A woman climbs a staircase in the short version of this ident.

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The long version of the staircase ident is essentially the same only features... well... more stairs!

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A short version of an ident, this time overlooking a garden with washing blowing in the wind.

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One of two idents reserved for use in post 9pm junctions. A crime scene in a multi-story car park features in this Drama ident, introduced alongside the other original idents in the set.

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Another of the post-9pm idents for Drama. This time a man watches out of his bedroom window at night

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The UKTV Network (netowork anyone?) branded version of the breakbumper for Drama, with Drama being the centred channel in the ring this time.

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An indoor car park features in the background of this Drama break bumper.

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A slightly longer bumper to give time for the channel's tagline to be read as well set against a rainy nighttime scene.

Another Drama bumper, this time based around the field ident.

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Looking out to sea in this Drama bumper.

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Set by a beach, this time the bumper includes additional promotion for UKTV's On Demand service.

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Like other UKTV channels, Drama has both network branded ECPs and its own station branded ones. The Drama branded version of the ECP is shown here.

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An example of a programme trailer for Drama, here promoting them going back to the very beginning of airings with The Bill. There are a selection of standard endboards using similar imagery to the idents and break bumpers to choose from.

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A broader promotion for Drama, showcasing what's new that season on the channel.

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For Summer 2018, Drama launched a new campaign to promote their Summer Weekend classics. Bringing in the stars of many of the shows and filming them in an appropriately summery setting. In this short version of a promo, they start naming some of the shows you'll be able to see over the season.

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Actually promoting a specific show this time around, this summer trailer from Drama focuses on Inspector Lynley Mysteries.

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Mark Williams of Father Brown fame stars in a short special ident for Drama, following the style of the summer weekends promo campaign, and aired here on July 8th 2018. The short idents all designed for the 10 second runtime use the same footage as the longer show intros, just removing any talk from the actors, and adding the Drama logo over the end. Although a short film with the channel logo on it, used to lead into a programme, this may not be referred to as an ident officially - Similar to how I sometimes decide to call my spades a sporde instead. You're welcome to decide yourself on that one though!

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Another of the somewhat elusive short Summer Weekend Idents for Drama. Generally being aired before shows unrelated to the star of them. This time the form up features shots of Sharon Small from Inspector Lynley Mysteries before finishing on the Drama logo.

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Used occasionally to lead into one of the actual Summer Weekend shows are short introductions where the actors talk about their time on the show. Largely these are a collection of the same soundbites that have already heard in the Summer trailers, just now sandwiched between a regular Drama channel ident and a seperate Drama bumper, rather than being used as an ident directly like the short versions before unrelated shows are. Sharon Small from Inspector Lynley Mysteries appears in this one again.

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Martin Shaw, star of Inspector George Gently, provides another introduction to sit between ident and dumper on Drama. Talking about his memories of his time on the show, between shots of him playing cricket.

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Lee Ingleby appears in another short Summer Weekend Ident for Drama, with him busy fishing on a lake. Ingleby appears here due to his role as John Bacchus in Inspector George Gently.

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A short Summer Weekend break bumper starring Lee Ingleby. The bumpers appear sporadically around a small number of breaks, with regular Drama bumpers used the rest of the time.

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Lee Ingleby (not Martin Shaw as the pre-recorded continuity announced) provides the opener to sit between ident and bumper on another Summer Weekend. Talking about Inspector George Gently some more.

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Martin Shaw's short summer ident for Drama, used due to his appearances in Inspector George Gently and Judge John Deed. Similar to the others, the ident is a cutdown version of the filmed show intro, minus any talking and with the Drama logo overlaid at the end.

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A second intro from Martin Shaw for Drama. This time based around the show Judge John Deed where Shaw had played the title character.

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Another short ident for Drama, this time featuring Sara Martins who'd played Camille Bordey in the series Death in Paradise. Sara is filmed relaxing by a pool to give the summer feel.

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The longer pre-show Summer Drama intro for Sara Martins. Again featuring several shots filmed by a pool, only this time with added scenes of her talking about her time on Death in Paradise.

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Jenny Agutter features in another short summer ident for Drama. Chosen primarily due to her appearance in the series Call The Midwife, which was aired as part of the Summer Weekends strand on the channel.

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The longer Summer Weekends intro featuring Jenny Agutter. With the actress talking about what she thinks people like about Call The Midwife, inbetween shots of her gardening.

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Drama's Christmas 2018 idents first went to air on December 17th featuring simple, but cosy, festive scenes. Enjoying some time by a warming fire with candles in the foreground in this first one.

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A second Christmas 2018 ident for Drama, this time panning past a large present with out of focus lights in the background.

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One more cosy Christmas 2018 ident for Drama, and this around time it's a tree in the foreground.

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Special presentation was introduced on Drama for Summer 2019 to mark a special 'Summer Evenings' season starting on 15th July. This was in a similar vein to what they'd done the previous summer, except no longer just for weekends (and tucked away in obscure morning junctions). Various actors from shows shown on the channel have gathered at a summer party. This presentation was used across promos, idents and breakbumpers for the season.

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A special ident from Drama for their 'Summer Evenings' season, airing from 15th July 2019. Notable for being some of the first special idents to appear on a UKTV station since the BBC Studios/Discovery split the prior month.

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A second special ident from Drama for their 'Summer Evenings' season, this time featuring swinging in slow motion in the garden.

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A third special 'Summer Evenings' ident from Drama for July 2019. This time mostly focused on actor Martin Shaw dancing at the garden party.

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Ident 4 for Drama's 'Summer Evenings' strand features Danny John-Jules, actor in the series Death In Paradise which the ident here introduces.

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A themed break bumper for Drama's 'Summer Evenings' season. The special break bumpers are usually based on the same scenes as the idents, just re-edited slightly different or at a later point. Here a scene slightly further on from the 'swing' ident appears.

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Another special break bumper to mark Drama's 'Summer Evenings' season, based on the same footage as the dancing ident.

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For Christmas 2019, Drama largely repeated their Summer Season approach. With a bunch of actors from largely the same shows as usual filmed talking about their time on their shows, only this time filmed in a more wintery surrounding. This was used to produce an extended promo used throughout December, with edited segments being used for idents into the featured shows themselves appearing later.

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Sorcha Cusack appears in this Christmas Drama ident, based around the show 'Father Brown', using sequences edited from the extended promo. This ident appeared on air from around the 21st December 2019.

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Another Drama ident cut from the Christmas Promo, this time featuring Chris Marshall from Death in Paradise.

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Drama returns with special 'Summer Evenings' presentation into the same collection of programmes for Summer 2020. This year, most likely due to the impact of COVID, no people feature, and instead its a solely graphical affair.

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A specially branded 'Summer Evenings' break bumper from Drama for 2020, following the same collage style as the promos and main ident, only focused on a particular programme instead. This time 'Death In Paradise'.

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After several weeks of teasing in trailers, Drama's full festive presentation went to air on December 21st. Featuring scenes made up from lights against a wall.

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Another Christmas 2020 ident from Drama, made up from light cast against objects and walls.

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The full version of the festive 2020 promo for Drama. Still promoting the same four shows as every other special season on the channel, just using a light-cast-on-wall style.

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To mark IWD on March 8th 2021, UKTV handed over continuity on all their channels to female members of the team, as well as dedicating the schedules and presentation of subscription channel W to celebrating women. Drama avoided continuity at all in many of their earlier daytime junctions, in keeping with the usual channel policy, however Emma popped up into the 1pm junction to mark the day. And get used to this particular Drama ident...

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Another special International Women's Day announcement from Chloe on Drama, aired here into the 3.20pm junction on the channel.

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Cheryl provides special IWD continuity for the 5.20pm junction on Drama. Yes, over that same ident again.

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For the 7.20pm junction on Drama, Marina provides special namechecked continuity to mark International Women's Day on the channel.

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Following the approach from their Summer Seasons in previous years, for 2021 to mark the airing of Jonathan Creek on the channel, Drama put together a trailer featuring actor Alan Davies. As well as this, short anecdote films were put together to air between the Drama ident and the show itself featuring talk of time on the show.

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In late April 2022 a small set of extra idents were added to Drama. All featuring scenes depicted in slow motion, they were initially mixed in alongside the existing ident set for the channel. Blossoms fall in the garden of a manor house in the scene for this ident.

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A night time police chase in the rain features in this Drama ident, introduced from April 2022.

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A bright street scene features in another ident for Drama introduced in April 2022.

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Like the rest of the UKTV network, and many other broadcasters, Drama joined in the one minute silence for Queen Elizabeth II at 8pm on September 18th 2022. Special presentation was used to lead in to this.

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In April 2024, two further idents were added to Drama's set. The first features two people running by the coast as waves crash and boats can be seen.

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In the second new regular Drama ident for 2024, a woman sets fire to letters in a woodland setting.

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A special ident for Drama used during May 2024 to promote the upcoming new series of Sister Boniface Mysteries to the channel. In a somewhat clunky interaction, channel continuity is mixed with the prerecorded audio from the character themself.

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