Why are BBC Three shows performing badly on BBC Two?
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This doesn't look good for the BBC who believe young people who don't move online will watch the BBC3 programming on 1 and 2:
https://twitter.com/SaveBBCThree/status/636441163273228288
No doubt there's reasoning for the poor performances but strong numbers would have helped their position.
https://twitter.com/SaveBBCThree/status/636441163273228288
No doubt there's reasoning for the poor performances but strong numbers would have helped their position.
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BBC Three would have majority of young viewers. BBC Two will have a lot more older viewers.
Also the shows they have brought over from BBC3 to BBC2 haven't exactly been given great timeslots, new Family Guy put on at 10:15pm springs to mind.
Another thing they keep changing times & channels so it does not help.
And I saw these ones like last year back on line so not bothering.
They'll be back.
Saddest thing is, children didn't follow Blue Peter and other chlidren's programmes to the multichannels.
Good case for just having a strong BBC One and Two.
Family guy may be 16 years old but it wasn't popular in the uk until the late 00's. I do think new episodes would be rating higher if it had stayed on three.
http://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/itv-welcomes-seth-macfarlane-family
1. BBC Three hasn't closed down yet - viewers who might have otherwise watched Family Guy on BBC Two if BBC Three were not there, may have still been tuned to BBC Three (this Sunday showing the film Deep Impact and an old edition of Russell Howard's Good News at the relevant time).
2. The new episodes on Sunday are repeated on BBC Three on Tuesdays anyway.
3. The BBC Two start time is earlier than for any Family Guy episodes on BBC Three.
3. The three episodes of Family Guy on BBC Two on Sundays are followed immediately by another three on BBC Three.
4. There remain at least 3 episodes of Family Guy on BBC Three every night including Sundays.
5. Habits and audiences take time to change. If you moved University Challenge to BBC One its audience would initially increase. Move New Tricks to BBC Two and the reverse would happen.
So at the moment I would suggest that the figures prove nothing - at least not as regards as what would happen once BBC Three has gone and any of its programmes are then shown on BBC One or BBC Two.
In other news I believe this may be my 4,000th post.
Proper agree! Auto reaction for me is to go to BBC3 for Family Guy, didnt realise it was on BBC2, just thought BBC3 was going through one of its "lets promote something different in this timeslot phase" again
BBC2 was a channel that was confused before the introduction of this content and now it just does not really serve a purpose for anybody
What we are all forgetting is the BBC have done something similar to this before with BBC Switch. They moved content for 12-16 year olds online with the promise of new shows and investment, it did not work and was quietly dumped.
Humorously, BBC Switch was dropped under the pretence that T4 was catering for the same audience and competing over the same audience was pointless. 18 months later, T4 was cancelled, and BBC Switch has not returned.
This is really just a case of the BBC not caring about teenage and young adult audiences, which seems to be rather self-defeating when they're the people you want to fund your future endeavours.