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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 1926—2022

In the early evening of Thursday 8th September 2022, it was announced that the Queen had passed away at Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire. The purpose of this section is to show a sample of the presentation used by broadcasters over the days that followed. It is not exhaustive, nor is it meant to be a timeline of what was shown.

The announcement of the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Huw Edwards breaks the news on the BBC.

HD279secThe BBC's announcement.

On ITV, Mary Nightingale reads the statement.

HD141secITV's announcement

A very matter-of-fact, straight-to-camera presentation of the announcement from Channel 4's Cathy Newman.

HD76secChannel 4's announcement

Dan Walker breaks the news for Channel 5's audience.

HD139secChannel 5's announcement.

BBC Presentation

A simple menu showing updates to programme times, and a signpost to online listings.

HD29secMenu

A special ident to mark the Queen's passing, similar in style to the ident shown following the death of HRH Prince Philip in 2021. This version doesn't include channel branding.

HD18secHM Queen Elizabeth II Remembered ident

Programming on the Thursday evening was suspended on BBC Three and BBC Four with these slides shown on the respective channels.

BBC One branded versions of the ident.

HD21secHM Queen Remembered ident (BBC One)

HD15secHM Queen Remembered ident (BBC One NI)

HD18secHM Queen Remembered ident (BBC One Scotland)

HD16secHM Queen Remembered ident (BBC One Wales)

A trailer for 'Elizabeth: The Unseen Queen' on BBC One.

HD24secBBC One trailer

The countdown on the BBC News Channel was replaced with this more sombre version.

HD65secBBC News filler (Sombre)

Later, the visuals were changed to reflect the news.

HD62secBBC News filler (Queen Elizabeth)

ITV and STV Presentation

ITV and STV showed simple idents featuring only their logos.

HD19secITV logo ident

HD23secSTV logo ident

HD23secSTV logo (announcerless)

An information slide from ITV2 signposting the breaking news coverage on ITV.

Channel 4, S4C and Channel 5 Presentation

Channel 4 used the 'Wheelchair Racers' ident - often with the alternative lighter musical score. Here the ident marks the channel's return to the regular schedule on the evening of Friday 10th September.

HD36secWheelchair Racers ident (Alternative audio)

After certain programming overnight Thursday into the Friday, additional credits not displayed in those programmes were shown as captions over animated yellow blocks.

17secChannel 4 additional credits

S4C used a very simple monochrome ident accompanied by gentle piano music.

HD24secS4C logo ident

HD33secS4C logo ident (Closedown)

Channel 5's black ident was already a part of their presentation and was appropriately used.

HD17secChannel 5 ident

Other Channel's Presentation

UKTV along with other broadcasters dropped all advertising across its channels, replacing it with this animated filler.

63secUKTV filler (2022)

GOLD's logo-only ident, announcerless.

HD13secGOLD logo ident

One Minute Silence

At 8pm on Sunday 18th September, there was a national moment of reflection to remember the life of Queen Elizabeth II.

The idents introducing the One Minute Silence across the BBC channels. BBC One was already mid-coverage with the other channels joining it.

HD33secOne Minute Silence (BBC Two)

HD26secOne Minute Silence (BBC Three)

HD28secOne Minute Silence (BBC Four)

HD24secOne Minute Silence (BBC Scotland)

ITV only marked the silence on the main channel.

HD35secOne Minute Silence (ITV)

Idents from across the Channel 4 family. Some joined Channel 4 for Channel 4 News, whilst other showed an image of the Queen.

(Some videos edited for brevity or to remove long footage.)

HD46secOne Minute Silence (Channel 4)

111secOne Minute Silence (4Seven)

36secOne Minute Silence (E4)

33secOne Minute Silence (E4 Extra)

63secOne Minute Silence (Film4)

28secOne Minute Silence (More4)

Whilst Channel 5 itself linked into the news for the silence, its family of channels broadcast the '5' ident and a scene of the flag.

HD30secOne Minute Silence (Channel 5)

26secOne Minute Silence (Channel 5 channels)

The One Minute Silence as observed across UKTV channels.

(Videos edited for brevity.)

33secOne Minute Silence (Alibi)

33secOne Minute Silence (Dave)

33secOne Minute Silence (Drama)

33secOne Minute Silence (W)

33secOne Minute Silence (Yesterday)

Across the Sky and A+E Networks channels, some took Sky News coverage, others a caption.

(Some videos edited to remove long footage.)

94secOne Minute Silence (Blaze)

33secOne Minute Silence (Challenge)

45secOne Minute Silence (Pick)

On Discovery channels, the Queen's cypher was shown.

65secOne Minute Silence (Quest)

Suspension of Advertising

Many channels suspended advertising as a mark of respect.

An animated caption with voiceover was broadcast across the Channel 4 channels on Monday 19th September. Channel 4 itself edited breaks out of many of its programmes.

33secNo adverts information (C4 channels)