This section covers special idents and presentation shown during 2017 and 2018.
Saint Patrick's Day Presentation
BBC TWO Northern Ireland's special presentation shown on Friday 17th March 2017.
BBC TWO Northern Ireland's special presentation shown on Friday 17th March 2017.
St Patrick's Day ident (Wave Day) shown 11am - without announcement.
Following its first use in 2016, this is the St Patrick's Day ident (Paint) shown at 4.45pm.
50th Anniversary of Colour Broadcasting
On 1st July 1967, BBC TWO became the first television channel in Europe to begin regular broadcasts in colour. To commemorate this, the original colour ident was broadcast at the start of the day's programmes on 1st July 2017, and then again later in the day to introduce 'Melvyn Bragg on TV: The Box that Changed the World'. Northern Ireland took an alternative but welcome approach for the 9pm junction.
On 1st July 1967, BBC TWO became the first television channel in Europe to begin regular broadcasts in colour. To commemorate this, the original colour ident was broadcast at the start of the day's programmes on 1st July 2017, and then again later in the day to introduce 'Melvyn Bragg on TV: The Box that Changed the World'. Northern Ireland took an alternative but welcome approach for the 9pm junction.
The original 1967 ident broacast to mark the 50th anniversary of colour on BBC TWO. Also seen in Wales and Scotland with local announcers.
Northern Ireland broadcast 'Aerial' to introduce the Melvyn Bragg special, with a better-worded announcement.
Gay Britannia
A season of programmes across the BBC marking the 50th anniversary of 1967 Sexual Offences Act.
A season of programmes across the BBC marking the 50th anniversary of 1967 Sexual Offences Act.
BBC TWO's 'Neon' ident in rainbow colours for the 'Gay Britannia' season. This video was posted to BBC TWO's Facebook page, whilst its first appearance on screen was Wednesday 26th July 2017. Northern Ireland had a slightly different adaptation with the colours in the order of the Rainbow flag.
Northern Ireland had a slightly different adaptation with the colours in the order of the Rainbow flag.
On Thursday 27th July 2017, Network BBC TWO aired an edited version with the colours revised to follow the Rainbow flag as in the Northern Ireland ident.
'Gay Britannia' season.
Dragons' Den (2017)
On Sunday August 20th 2017, the fifteenth series began, introduced with an updated ident to reflect the change in 'Dragons'. Jenny Campbell and Tej Lalvani join Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden and Touker Suleyman.
An oddity from the two playouts shown that evening is that in the first, which introduced a preview programme, the channel logo appears several seconds in, whereas in the ident played immediately before the actual programme, the logo appears right at the start.
On Sunday August 20th 2017, the fifteenth series began, introduced with an updated ident to reflect the change in 'Dragons'. Jenny Campbell and Tej Lalvani join Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden and Touker Suleyman.
An oddity from the two playouts shown that evening is that in the first, which introduced a preview programme, the channel logo appears several seconds in, whereas in the ident played immediately before the actual programme, the logo appears right at the start.
Dragons' Den idents (2017)
CBBC on BBC TWO
First shown 9am on Saturday 30th September to introduce 'Saturday Mash Up!'
2018 Olympic Winter Games
For its coverage of the PyeongChang games, BBC TWO Northern Ireland brought back the icy ski-slope '2' from Christmas 2000 - updated with the current centred channel logo.
