UK Timeline : BBC Three launch week

[Media Boy UK]

Wanna see what will be on BBC Three in the launch week?

https://www.tvzoneuk.com/post/bbc3-relaunchschedule

[General Maximus]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Wanna see what will be on BBC Three in the launch week?]

not unless they have got a stellar line up of US tv series which will draw a new audience to the channel. There is a reason why it was ditched.


Edit: Let's see.............Eating with my Ex and Lazy Susan on launch night. Can't wait

Originally Posted by General Maximus

not unless they have got a stellar line up of US tv series which will draw a new audience to the channel. There is a reason why it was ditched.


Edit: Let's see.............Eating with my Ex and Lazy Susan on launch night. Can't wait

It was ditched because the BBC was required to make budget cuts and it decided it was worth experimenting with a streaming-only channel, given the 18-35 demographic it was aimed at.

It is being revived because it has attracted a mere fraction of its former audience as a streaming-only channel, while the late-night scheduled broadcast of its prime content on BBC1 has performed well.

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by Chris

It was ditched because the BBC was required to make budget cuts and it decided it was worth experimenting with a streaming-only channel, given the 18-35 demographic it was aimed at.

It is being revived because it has attracted a mere fraction of its former audience as a streaming-only channel, while the late-night scheduled broadcast of its prime content on BBC1 has performed well.

It will be closed down again courtesy of the Gov, cuts plus a lot of other BBC services. All to save 'Big Dog' !

It will backfire of course when the public realise the effect of cutting/removing the licence fee. No BBC3/4, no Wimbledon, no BBC proms, no Local Radio, no drama, no sport, no website , no iplayer...
Mind you if it means no Mrs Browns Boys or Strictly Come Prancing I might in favour , but they'll probably keep the cheap crap..

[General Maximus]

Make people put money where their mouth is then. If the BBC is so fantastic and offers great value for money then make it a paid for subscription service and let the people who want to watch it pay for it.

I think it is crap and always have done. I would sign up for one month a year for Wimbledon and that is it.

Wow, what a fantastic line up ....... not.

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Mr K

It will be closed down again courtesy of the Gov, cuts plus a lot of other BBC services. All to save 'Big Dog' !

It will backfire of course when the public realise the effect of cutting/removing the licence fee. No BBC3/4, no Wimbledon, no BBC proms, no Local Radio, no drama, no sport, no website , no iplayer...
Mind you if it means no Mrs Browns Boys or Strictly Come Prancing I might in favour , but they'll probably keep the cheap crap..

Funny isn't it, two of the only things this country is admired for anymore are the BBC and the NHS and the Tories are destroying both and yet they're the party of patriotism

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Originally Posted by General Maximus

Make people put money where their mouth is then. If the BBC is so fantastic and offers great value for money then make it a paid for subscription service and let the people who want to watch it pay for it.

I think it is crap and always have done. I would sign up for one month a year for Wimbledon and that is it.

I wouldn't sign up even for that and yet I have to subsidise everyone else's viewing pleasure, that said I did like BBC3 so typically the shut it! I'm interested in the new found concern the government has in the cost of living crisis and how they think saving £13 a month will help

Originally Posted by General Maximus

Make people put money where their mouth is then. If the BBC is so fantastic and offers great value for money then make it a paid for subscription service and let the people who want to watch it pay for it.

I think it is crap and always have done. I would sign up for one month a year for Wimbledon and that is it.

A calculation I saw this week suggested that the BBC would have to attract 24 million subs to continue in anything like its current form, and that as well as being an impossible commercial feat would also be inequitable due to it running services that you can’t paywall (mainly radio). Clearly there are opportunities for it to sell niche content in that way, same as many other providers do, but it’s mass-audience public service offering, not so much.

I’ve said this a gazillion times before - no government can force a private business to choose its business model, certainly not one that manifestly can’t work. Whatever the long term funding settlement looks like, it won’t involve putting the main TV and radio stations behind a paywall.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Paul

Wow, what a fantastic line up ....... not.

Friday’s schedule looks so varied and imaginative…..

I’ll give it a miss.

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Friday’s schedule looks so varied and imaginative…..

I’ll give it a miss.

I don't think you're the target demographic

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

I don't think you're the target demographic

Maybe not, but I can tell you I wouldn’t have touched any of those programmes when I was, either.

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Maybe not, but I can tell you I wouldn’t have touched any of those programmes when I was, either.

tbf, then the programmes would have been in cuneiform…

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Hugh

tbf, then the programmes would have been in cuneiform…

Cheeky sod!