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Old 27-11-2016, 16:40
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I liked the concept of having a BBC3 but I never actually watched anything on there........

my impression is that it was mainly repeats of Dr Who and programmes aimed at teens and twenties

can't say that I miss it and I've never watched it online

BBC4 on the other hand is the best channel on TV
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Old 27-11-2016, 19:45
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I liked the concept of having a BBC3 but I never actually watched anything on there........

my impression is that it was mainly repeats of Dr Who and programmes aimed at teens and twenties

can't say that I miss it and I've never watched it online

BBC4 on the other hand is the best channel on TV
So a channel that was aiming for its demographic didn't appeal to you....?
Gonna take a punt here and say you're not in BBC Three's demo!!
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Old 27-11-2016, 21:53
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Old 27-11-2016, 21:56
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Old 01-12-2016, 16:38
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BBC is "seriously considering" a BBC3 hour on BBC2
Exclusive: Briefing document has been circulated among the Corporation's top executives - but the time of the slot could prove tricky

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-...3-hour-on-bbc2


Senior BBC executives are understood to have formulated plans for a designated BBC3 hour on one of the main terrestrials channels.
The plans, which have been put forward in a briefing document and are understood to have been circulated among the Corporation’s executive board, puts forwards the arguments for a designated slot – most likely on BBC2.
BBC3 has been online for nearly a year now with ad hoc showings on the main terrestrial channels of the best programmes such as the acclaimed abduction drama Thirteen.
But BBC3 shows, which also includes the Doctor Who spin-off Class, haven’t found a permanent regular home - and that may change.
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Old 01-12-2016, 16:43
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It seems to be kept going purely to keep Stacey Dooley in a job.
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Old 01-12-2016, 16:45
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It seems to be kept going purely to keep Stacey Dooley in a job.
Well...I watch.. Class on it, do that's incorrect.
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Old 01-12-2016, 16:49
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Him & Her,
Bad Education,
Torchwood,
The Fades,
Being Human,
Gavin & Stacey.
various Documentaries like Scott Mills visiting Uganda.

BBC Three brought many fantastic shows (and before it BBC Choice/Knowledge for example brought me Queer As Folk USA among other things I would never have had the chance to see)

Yes - I do miss it, I don't know if I'm the demographic for the channel - but I don't "discover" stuff on the iPlayer site the way that I did watching a TV channel. In fact I have never gone to the iPlayer site to find something to watch, I only ever go to iPlayer when I know there is something specific that I missed on TV and want to watch it (and I usually find out that I'm missing something new - via Gogglebox)

I'm 34.
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Old 01-12-2016, 16:51
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I think BBC3 and 4 should split BBC4, maybe 3/4 days each.
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Old 01-12-2016, 17:07
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Does video-on-demand actually work as a concept for TV drama/comedy?

People will point to Netflix, but it's not actually that popular compared to broadcast.


As mentioned above it's the "discovering" thing that's missing. That means future programming.

Without public discovery of new programmes, broadcast TV is reduced to showing the same stuff over and over.
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Old 01-12-2016, 18:22
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This has been a good experiment. We are often told that without the BBC the world would end as we know it. But BBC 3 closed and barely anyone has seen any change to their lives whatsoever. The only programme anyone even remotely cared about on BBC 3 was the American show Family Guy and that's still on free to air every night just the same as before.

So now lets press on with the phasing out of the BBC please, now this experiment has proven successful.
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Old 01-12-2016, 18:24
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I think BBC3 and 4 should split BBC4, maybe 3/4 days each.
Providing it stays BBC4 on a Saturday I dont mind that, the BBC3 audience will all be out getting drunk on a Saturday night anyway
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Old 01-12-2016, 18:37
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Providing it stays BBC4 on a Saturday I dont mind that, the BBC3 audience will all be out getting drunk on a Saturday night anyway
It should be easy...

BBC3 on Three days.
BBC4 on Four days.

Maybe BBC3 Monday Wednesday Friday, but flexible on, Eurovision, and the Proms.
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Old 01-12-2016, 19:29
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I admit that I don't watch BBC 4 an awful lot - but the documentaries on there - particularly the science ones are things I enjoy very much - so I could probably cope with a BBC Three / Four timeshare.
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Old 01-12-2016, 19:38
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This has been a good experiment. We are often told that without the BBC the world would end as we know it. But BBC 3 closed and barely anyone has seen any change to their lives whatsoever. The only programme anyone even remotely cared about on BBC 3 was the American show Family Guy and that's still on free to air every night just the same as before.

So now lets press on with the phasing out of the BBC please, now this experiment has proven successful.
Rowey, do you have to take over every nice discussion and make it an Anti BBC bash? You have strong views, those who read here know them, this is on the topic of BBC3 but again you want to take it off topic on repeated views.
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Old 01-12-2016, 19:39
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I admit that I don't watch BBC 4 an awful lot - but the documentaries on there - particularly the science ones are things I enjoy very much - so I could probably cope with a BBC Three / Four timeshare.
I think a timeshare is the solution on 3/4 and not loose part of 2.
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Old 02-12-2016, 10:05
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My recollection of BBC Three was more or less endless reruns of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. Which I never found remotely funny.

I did like Snog, Marry, Avoid, though, mainly because it was Jenny Frost that presented it. And Liz Kitten did Hotter Than My Daughter, I think that was BBC Three.

I think it also showed the documentary that Nicola Roberts from Girls Aloud did about tanning addiction among young people.

That's about all I ever watched on it.
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Old 03-12-2016, 00:49
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Seems like it's all but vanished. Shame as in it's heyday it was a brilliant little try out channel. The relaunch in 2009 was when it all went wrong.
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Old 03-12-2016, 04:09
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I've watched some Reggie Yates, Angela Scanlon, Stacey Dooly documentaries on there. Besides that not much. Although I'm probably outside their target audience age wise anyway.
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Old 03-12-2016, 07:51
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People will point to Netflix, but it's not actually that popular compared to broadcast.
Netflix also suffers from the same Discoverability issue that BBC Three now does..... but it's worse with Netflix - BBC iPlayer at least I can generally find something to watch relatively quickly, but for Netflix - I spend an hour trying to find something to watch and then I don't have time to watch it anymore, it's silly that most of the stuff I watch on Netflix is because of the third party site https://uk.newonnetflix.info/ rather than because Netflix make it easy to find something to watch.
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Old 03-12-2016, 10:29
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I like the idea of splitting BBC3 and BBC4. I miss BBC3. Naturally and understandably we do not get iPlayer in Ireland as it is geo-blocked. BTW I am 52.
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Old 03-12-2016, 14:57
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Or BBC 4 16.00-21.00 & BBC 3 21.00-03.00
How would that work for BBC4 post-watershed shows?

BBC is "seriously considering" a BBC3 hour on BBC2
Exclusive: Briefing document has been circulated among the Corporation's top executives - but the time of the slot could prove tricky

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-...3-hour-on-bbc2
Radio Times is turning into a hack clickbait site, especially with a title I saw yesterday of "What time is Philomena Cunk on Christmas on TV?" Well, put it in the title, then. Gah, it makes the contributors to Huffington Post look educated!

(It's BBC2, Dec 29th 10pm, for anyone who's interested), just after Charlie Brooker's 2016 Wipe.

As for 10pm, some BBC3 stuff needs to be on post-watershed, but personally, I'd scrap the BBC1 10pm News and BBC2's Newsnight. They're NEWS. They're already on the NEWS channels. Let people 'navigate' their way to those instead.
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Old 03-12-2016, 15:00
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How would that work for BBC4 post-watershed shows?



Radio Times is turning into a hack clickbait site, especially with a title I saw yesterday of "What time is Philomena Cunk on Christmas on TV?" Well, put it in the title, then. Gah, it makes the contributors to Huffington Post look educated!

(It's BBC2, Dec 29th 10pm, for anyone who's interested), just after Charlie Brooker's 2016 Wipe.

As for 10pm, some BBC3 stuff needs to be on post-watershed, but personally, I'd scrap the BBC1 10pm News and BBC2's Newsnight. They're NEWS. They're already on the NEWS channels. Let people 'navigate' their way to those instead.
The Radio Times seems to have a good link to BBC/ ITV and is normally 100% accurate.

I think the split channel 3/4 on split days would work, and of course then could Show post and pre watershed programmes.

BBC " has to" show news on BBC1 for a agreed amount of hours. It can't be taken off, and that's before the fact it gets four million viewers.
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Old 03-12-2016, 16:36
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BBC " has to" show news on BBC1 for a agreed amount of hours. It can't be taken off, and that's before the fact it gets four million viewers.
Surely those requirements are from the analogue days though - now that we have switched Analogue off - anyone still watching TV is doing so digitally - which means they have access to the extra channels, and therefore the requirement is a pointless remnant of the old ages!

Obviously regional news is still necessary on the main channels because there is no ability to show the regional news on the extra channels.

People have been complaining about the same thing when it comes to sports for years too - there are channels that sport could have been put on to end this stupid schedule interruptions that it causes every year. This one of the benefits that were touted about Analogue switch off, and 4 years later - we are still waiting.....
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Old 03-12-2016, 17:24
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Surely those requirements are from the analogue days though - now that we have switched Analogue off - anyone still watching TV is doing so digitally - which means they have access to the extra channels, and therefore the requirement is a pointless remnant of the old ages!

Obviously regional news is still necessary on the main channels because there is no ability to show the regional news on the extra channels.

People have been complaining about the same thing when it comes to sports for years too - there are channels that sport could have been put on to end this stupid schedule interruptions that it causes every year. This one of the benefits that were touted about Analogue switch off, and 4 years later - we are still waiting.....
It's the rules.
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