BBC 3 threatened of axing

I actually liked a lot of the BBC 3 offering, Gavin and Stacey, Torchwood and Mighty Boosh but there is some real crude on there.

For every Being Human, there is a glut of Coming of Age, Snog, Marry Avoid, Sun, Sand and Suspicious Parents. Some of those programmes are really best found on some of the cheaper, more compressed cable channels.

Ideally, merge BBC3 and BBC4 - make it like BBC2 used to be - educational and entertaining. The key here is to raise the quality bar and be ruthless with axing the crappy “reality” stuff. One channel can easily accommodate the best of what those two do at the moment.

Snog marry avoid is the worst programme ever made. It's offensive on so many levels.

But it is dirt cheap to make.

I am so tweeting that.

The same kerfuffle happened with BBC 4 a while back, and then 6 music before that. I suspect the BBC just float these kinds of rumours periodically with one or other 'minority' channels to test the level of interest/commitment in the viewers.

I'd freely admit I haven't watched any show on BBC 3 for, well, years. The last thing i remember bothering to watch was a mad mashup show that used old wu shu movie footage with dubbed over voices and that was an age ago. But I'd also freely admit I'm not their target market, just as the people who do watch BBC3 aren't the target market of the shows that they put on BBC 4, which is more my kind of thing.

I think in any case I'd much rather they cut say 10% off the top line pay they give to the likes of Suzannah Reid and what have you and used the saving to maintain the diversity in their output. I really don't see why the BBC should be competing to pay massive fees for presenters/celebs when they have a bigtalent pool of less well known people to replace them with (who would actually do just as good a job) if the top earners decide to sod off to ITV.

The BBC needs to much more often say 'Yeah? Well she'll do it for half what you're asking for and we don't think it'll make much difference which one of you we use. Care to reconsider your position?'

Jon

I have not really watched BBC3 much either but I am not part of its target demographic either. So while I might think it is a crap channel but then there are so many more commercial crap channels out there.

BBC3 to be axed under director general's plans

Tony Hall expected to announce he will save BBC4 and close channel that first aired Gavin and Stacey

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/m ... -tony-hall

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That was a thought I'd mentioned in another thread. But I'd be very surprised at them ditching 3 and keeping 4

I won't miss it.

TBH, if you filtered out all the sh!te you could probably reduce the entire channel list available on sky or freeview to under twenty.

I think if you were honest you could get it even lower. I watch probably less than 10 channels out of the 122 available on freeview, and do not count the HD channels as extra channels.

My list would be the 5 terrestrial channels, ITV3 Yesterday, More 4, E4, Quest, 5USA, 4Seven and that would be it.

I mostly watch food network

Any other Food porn?

To be fair, the best thing that was ever on BBC3 wasn't actually a programme.

It’s not being axed, per se - it’s being shunted onto iPlayer only.

Now this article can be placed into context:
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/f ... bc-iplayer
( as discussed here: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21445&p=322675&hilit=iplayer#p322675 )

There was a lot of hand wringing about this on Newsnight last night, with various media types getting all in a tis because a BBC Channel is moving its content to an online only service.

None of them spotted the trend: this is happening anyway (Netflix, LoveFilm, AppleTV, etc.). In 10 years time, if not sooner, I would expect a lot more of our TV will be viewed using such services. The target audience for BBC 3 is watching a lot of content on such services and devices already (PlayStation, XBoxes, set top boxes, tablets, etc). So this will not be a major shift for them. If you are watching content on a games console, chances are you’ll be using the same screen that you do for watching TV anyway.

Anyone noticed that iPlayer uses much the same colour palette as BBC 3 anyway?

I expect that this will not just be a cash saving exercise for the BBC, but a very good experiment to see if the audience can cope with the concept of watching online TV. I expect other channels will make this move eventually - BBC 4 and likely the Parliament Channel could make the move as well.