BBC3 Axed

[SpookyFrank]

I'm sure if they can find room on BBC one for shite like the Musketeers they can make space for anything genuinely good that would've come under BBC Three's remit.

 

[RedDragon]

EastEnders annual budget £29.9 million, BBC4 £49 million, and BBC Parliament £2 million

 

[caleb]

I tend to watch TV for entertainment, not knowledge. The dumber the better, for me. Sometimes there's decent stuff on BBC4 it's also everything I hate about the BBC in the strawman version I have in my mind: smug, middle class, overwhelmingly white. I can't stand Radio 4 for this reason either.

Whereas BBC3 was silly and tended to annoy people in that demographic. Great.

 

[caleb]

And I mean, that's probably stupid and I probably have a chip on my shoulder, but I really do hate the BBC and radio 4 in particular

 

[alpha slappa]

Didn't it have that robot makeover show?

Possibly, it wouldn't surprise me.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

What sort of thing is on BBC3?

Stacey Dooley

 

[savoloysam]

No great loss. Will we get a couple of quid of our "bill" Though? Fucking doubt it

 

[veracity]

Having heard the reporting of this, and the reactions to it during the day, I doubt BBC3's closure is going to generate the successful campaign to save it that BBC Radio 6 enjoyed. As others have said, it's no great loss. If the BBC have to cut costs then let it be this - but I'm quite concerned as to where else the axe may fall.

 

[veracity]

And I mean, that's probably stupid and I probably have a chip on my shoulder, but I really do hate the BBC and radio 4 in particular

I dislike quite a lot of Radio 4's output these days: Woman's Hour, You and Yours, the Food Programme and more, but I'd be devastated if they cut Radio 4. It needs a shake up and no mistake, but it's a valuable station.

 

[Plumdaff]

Didn't it have that robot makeover show?

Snog, Marry, Avoid. I used to watch it on iplayer on quiet night shifts. I would rate that above Torchwood to be honest. I'm not really the demographic, Being Human season 1 was utter TV genius though. Have a commissioning slot on 2 for new young adult oriented drama and I can't see the channel being missed.

 

[fogbat]

Rejoice, comrades!

This is the first step towards a Jack Whitehouse-free world!

Onwards!

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

The thing about BBC3 is that it was/is shite and should have been binned ages ago.

 

[alpha slappa]

Stacey Dooley

What's wrong with Stacey Dooley?

 

[Pickman's model]

What's wrong with Stacey Dooley?

i don't know, what's wrong with stacey dooley?

 

[Guineveretoo]

I have just found a petition against the closure, which I am going to sign, because I want it to stay on air and not just be online if at all possible.

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitio...&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=share_petition

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

In the spirit of giving BBC3 a go I just watched 'hair'. If the channel is binned I think the world could live with out it.

A winning strategy for the BBC would be to put all the popular stuff on one channel, they could call it BBC One and then all the arty or alternative stuff on a second channel. They could call that one 'BBC Two'. Instead of spreading all their good content thinly across dozens of channels they could concentrate all the watchable stuff in these two locations. And then stop making the hours of utter shite previously required to fill the gaps.

This advice is free, and therefore will be ignores. But if they would like to hire me as a consultant I cost a mere £8,000 an hour and should be able to deliver a report which basically says the same thing for a mere £192,000 and that includes all the time I will need to spend in the Bahamas writing it.

 

[skyscraper101]

In the correct version of the world, I would be I charge and here's what I would do.

Bring back Top Of The Pops every Thursday and simulcast with BBC One. It is an institution which should never have been gotten rid of no matter how crap the charts get, it was always worth tuning in for one band you may have never heard or seen. Then, I'd get rid of fucking Jools Holland. Well past its prime. Then, I'd turn the currently awful BBC Three with it's dire comedy commissions and spend that budget on a decent youth/music channel with a focus on music just like MTV used to be 'back in the day' (mid nineties era). There'd be daytime mainstream pop videos, specialist weekly live shows for hip hop, house, metal, new-indie..etc. and there'd be shows with a studio audience, like the Word or something. And it would integrate with Radio 1 & 6 by having a lot of simulcast stuff and newsbeat 6 music news and utilise the DJs with their specialist knowledge. Then there'd be club shows like what BPM was for the small hours. Simple setup a few cameras in a club, filming people off their face having a good time.

It would not be just another rolling music video station though. There'd only be music video shows as part of a wider channel output and there'd be a massive focus on live programming and live audience shows, with bands.

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

Look at the way the BBC has systematically ruined Glastonbury. Are you sure you want them doing that to whatever club night that's exactly like the Word used to be?

 

[skyscraper101]

Look at the way the BBC has systematically ruined Glastonbury. Are you sure you want them doing that to whatever club night that's exactly like the Word used to be?

I'd be very low key stuff. There'd be a policy of no Jo Whiley on the station and no presenters in clubs generally. It wouldn't be another hit man and her.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Simple setup a few cameras in a club, filming people off their face having a good time.

Just get the right presenters in and you could be onto something here

 

[DaveCinzano]

Fuck you skyscraper101

 

[skyscraper101]

 

[skyscraper101]

I was thinking more along the lines of BPM, a classic staple of ITV Night Time in the mid nineties.

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

sounds like 'Club X'

anyway Skyscraper101' has a vision of the future not for the BBC but... for Channel 4 !!!

 

[skyscraper101]

Channel 4 could've done it with 4 Music but they've just created another generic rolling music video channel. The beeb at least have tons of archive and a whole radio network to utilise. I barely watch bbc tv these days but I check to see what's on all the time. For me, Radio 1 is the only thing chiming with youth.

 

[danny la rouge]

only four successful transfers to the 'proper' BBC in ten years (Being Human, Torchwood, Gavin & Stacey and Little Britain). Not enough, really.

Of which only one was worth watching. (And even then went on too long).

 

[moochedit]

No this won't do at all! I need 5 hours of family guy and american dad on a saturday evening sesh!

 

[belboid]

Exactly what a lot of people would say about BBC4 (or BBC2 or 6Music for that matter!).

Again, I'm no big fan of the channel (though the Family Guy/American Dad repeats are handy for late night "I can't bothered to watch anything else" TV), but I'm pretty sure BBC3 does have a lot of other fans - do they deserve to lose the channel they like over any of the others?

just thinking on this...

3 was the youth channel, 4 the artsy one. 3 rarely bothers the BARB charts, if it does its the odd episode of Family Guy or an film (Indiana Jones, or one of those serials particularly). And they are well viewed on iplayer. The youth market is much better at using the 'alternative platforms' to view stuff, so they'll be much better served by a move online than 4 would. It makes commercial sense, the audience will survive quite happily, there are plenty of alternatives for that kind of programming. 4 only really has Sky Arts as a rival.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

No this won't do at all! I need 5 hours of family guy and american dad on a saturday evening sesh!

I'm inclined to agree.

Just look what C4 has done to the Simpsons

 

[telbert]

Should've got shot of it a while back and saved Danny Baker on BBC London.