DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
Good.
BBC3 Axed
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Good.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
I definitely remember there was something good on it once.
moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
I wouldn't notice any channel going anymore really, i just go through the sky guide till i find a progamme to watch. never really notice what channel i'm watching.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Yes, this was a question I meant to ask, but didn't.
fogbat
The Talibum
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
You took the bullet for me and those like me, and your reward will be in heaven.I bet the answer will be really obvious and I'll look like an idiot
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
they've still got £25m for programmes. Sticking things online is easier, requiring fewer people and so lower costs. They'll probably dump Family Guy/American Dad, which cost a fair chunk, and pay rates to appear in online shows tend to be lower than the same fees for broadcast TV. And then they'll just make fewer programmes. Probably.
Gerry1time
Did a wee in Dirac's toilet
I was a bit pissed off when I first heard this idea floated, but then realised I haven't really enjoyed BBC3 since about 2007. Also, a talk I went to the other day was discussing which major American news channel, on the scale of CNN or Fox News, will be the first to take the jump into being online only. Whether it'll be a wise move in the long run only time will tell, but it's definitely the way TV is heading.
Of course, this is all probably part of the longer term game plan to abolish the license fee and have the BBC as a pay per view online only service. Easier to start testing the model with more niche channels that Daily Mail readers won't miss, but young people will be more likely to pay for for niche content.
Of course, this is all probably part of the longer term game plan to abolish the license fee and have the BBC as a pay per view online only service. Easier to start testing the model with more niche channels that Daily Mail readers won't miss, but young people will be more likely to pay for for niche content.
bouncer_the_dog
Well-Known Member
when I hear unfunny comedians bleating about it I just hear twats moaning about the demise of their meal ticket. It's the same as NIgel Partingers death scream being more the wail of an archers actor wondering where the mortgage payments are going to come from..
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Pargetter, you heathen
ExtraRefined
Better than you at everything you love
bouncer_the_dog
Well-Known Member
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
I'm of two minds...
On the one hand, they did turn out an average of one good show a year with a budget less than 10% of BBC1's. (And 1 doesn't have 10 good shows in a year) I submit: Monkey Dust, My Life in Film, Bad Education, Pulling, Being Human, Mongrels, The Fades, Nighty Night, Pramface (well, the first season), and The Mighty Boosh. Little Britain wasn't half bad at first too, but that sort of thing wears thin extraordinarily quickly.
On the other hand, the schedule is full of reruns and imports. If they just kept the original programming, there's more than ample room on the other channels to kill some reruns and put that in.
What I don't understand is this: They're doing it to save money, but they claim they'll still make things and put them online. Isn't most of the cost in creating the television, not broadcasting it?
On the one hand, they did turn out an average of one good show a year with a budget less than 10% of BBC1's. (And 1 doesn't have 10 good shows in a year) I submit: Monkey Dust, My Life in Film, Bad Education, Pulling, Being Human, Mongrels, The Fades, Nighty Night, Pramface (well, the first season), and The Mighty Boosh. Little Britain wasn't half bad at first too, but that sort of thing wears thin extraordinarily quickly.
On the other hand, the schedule is full of reruns and imports. If they just kept the original programming, there's more than ample room on the other channels to kill some reruns and put that in.
What I don't understand is this: They're doing it to save money, but they claim they'll still make things and put them online. Isn't most of the cost in creating the television, not broadcasting it?
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Apparently, I am not the target audience for BBC3 either - I am 56 - but I watch it a lot. I watch Eastenders on there because 7:30 is usually too early for me, and they routinely repeat it on BBC3. Yes, I know I could watch it online, but my broadband is slow, and my laptop is tiny compared to the telly, and I don't have any speakers for the laptop either. So, basically, I want to watch my telly on the telly, in most cases!I'm pretty sure all you BBC3 naysayers aren't the people who BBC3 is aimed at, I'm not particularly keen either and think most of the comedy is crap but then I'm 41.
Snog, Marry, Avoid on the other hand is TV gold
I also like things "Don't tell the bride", even though that has become less interesting now that they are always trying to use couples where the chap is a twit who doesn't give a hoot about what his fiancee wants and/or couples where said fiancee is a stroppy git who wants everything their own way.
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