this

This.

BBC3 is the only good channel, BBC1 is meh

BBC4's show are better than 99% of the ****e spewed on BBC3, how will we cope without Don't Tell The ****ing Bride?

And anyway, most people are hooked up to the internet 24/7 now anyway, if they are so desperate to watch DTTB or Pramface or what other nonsense, they are entitled to.

Where's the licence fee money going?
First they backed down on that massive online back catalogue they were doing and had already spent millions on and now they have to save another 100 million?
How about not renewing the voice and paying the judges god knows how much and stupid money for a format that was dated when it first aired... :idc:

I can't name any BBC4 shows and I don't think any of there shows have ever turned into a big show

**** off. I watch Family guy and the Voice on this.

It's sad. 'How Not To Live Your Life' came from that channel, loved that.

Bad Education isn't that bad either, I'll just remember the days before Sky Plus having to watch BBC3 at 10 for the EastEnders repeat.

I miss Young Dumb and Living Off Mum http://i.imgur.com/SUQjGNT.png

Oh I actually liked that, the last winner was ****e though, everybody else made the effort to go into full time employment and he ****ed off around the world and came back and got a part time job at Claire's Accessories :mad:

When that fat chav girl got removed in the episode for going mad and trying to kick the front door in <3

omfg yes, because the blonde chav wanted to top and tail the posh girl </3

I watch a fair bit on there... Stacey Dooley's docs :love:, Family Guy, the random 9pm docs they have which are usually good. Old before my time was really good, can't remember when that was on. I'd definitely miss it if it went.

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


BBC3 is due to Axed in a few mins
as he goes to the BBC Trust meeting

http://www.theguardian.com/media/201...lans-tony-hall

They Have


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Online and Ipad only



BBC flagship youth channel BBC Three and content will only be able to be seen online as part of cost cutting
Corporation executives plan to axe channel and move programmes online
Director-general Tony Hall last week said BBC needed to make cuts
Stars of the youth-orientated channel have joined a campaign to save it


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Sign Of The Times

Well of course there's Only Connect, the most critically acclaimed quiz show of the last few years, which has done so successfully it is being moved to BBC2 for it's tenth series.

BBC Four is also very much responsible for the UK's love of Scandinavian dramas, with the likes of Borgen, The Bridge, The Killing and Wallander. The effect of this is very much visible in current culture, especially since their popularity on the channel has caused UK remakes of some of these shows.

Then there's BBC Four's comedy output. Charlie Brooker, one of the most well known satirists currently doing the rounds in the UK got his start on the channel, with Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe had five series on the channel, which lead to him doing shows such as You Have Been Watching, How TV Ruined Your Life, Newswipe and writing Black Mirror.

They were also the first UK Channel to broadcast shows like Mad Men, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Flight of the Conchords, Parks & Recreation and even The Thick of It.

One of my personal favourite shows of the last decade, Dirk Gently, only ran for four episodes, but that show never would've even been broadcast on any other channel. BBC Four isn't a channel made for huge viewing figures, far from it. Any show that does successfully gets moved to channels more in the spotlight, such as BBC Two, because BBC Four is a testing ground for shows that would not get produced on any other channel because there "isn't an audience for them". BBC Four allows for programs about things more niche, more specific, and generally caters to an audience which are not getting what they want from other channels. It is due to this that it is imperative BBC Four is saved, even at the loss of BBC Three.

^ you're overthinking things, if they merge bbc two & four it would be perfectly fine. forget about this 'testing ground for new shows' rubbish, the point of the bbc before anything is to provide a public service yet they're taking away their only channel which caters for teenagers & young adults

An audience which prefers seeing content online, which is where BBC Three is being moved to. BBC Three is not being taken away, but being moved somewhere it makes a lot more sense to be. Three airs a lot more repeats than Four, and as such makes more sense on the iPlayer, if one channel did have to get moved entirely.

Merging Two and Four would definitely cause a lot of Four's programming to be lost or simplified (although not as much as some people think), but something that would absolutely be lost is BBC Four's identity and character, something I think Three will retain in it's move online.

can't say I'm fussed, there are other channels putting out the Family Guy/American Dad reruns (and to be honest I think we've all seen each episode about 40 times anyway?) and the best of the rest will be picked up by others.

too much crap and trashy TV to be a loss to me.

and lol @ the usual "i don't watch something so it MUST be bad!" comments re: bbc four. get some culture.

Thats Tonys thinking

I'm really sad :(

You have internet... no reason to be

I have superslow internet </3

You will get over it

thats OK
download will take longer
but playback will be the same

We pay for these ****ing channels, it's their fault we have to pay a licence fee, WE SHOULD BE GETTING WHAT WE PAY FOR :fist: :mad:

You should not have to pay
they can stand on their own Fat Feet

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Its OK Honey
move onto Online and Ipad

We shouldn't pay for it indeed! Just so they can skip adverts!
I'd rather have adverts than lose bbc three on the tv

But you don't pay, pmsl.

that's a bit of a dumb generalisation, I HATE watching programmes online
and if that's the case then they should get rid of bbc two altogether. or that random alba channel

HHAHAHAHAHA IKR OMG
:rolleyes:
My parents do. Its money that could be spent on other things.

They should get rid of BBC Two all together, it gets a hell of a lot more funding for a lot less quality output, but unfortunately Two is far too embedded. Realistically, Two's original programming could be dispersed between One, Three and Four and things would work out a lot better, considering Two has no particular character to it.

It was always going to be between Three and Four, and Three's content just adapts better to the online environment.

If the move to online turns out to be true it may be interesting, as I've wondered sometimes about how eventually we may end up in a situation where most TV shows are available on the internet to watch when people want to, and so BBC3 could pave the way in that respect.

I still stand by what I said though, if you close BBC3 you're cutting off the one channel that the public service broadcaster is providing for young adults, personally I think that's going against the remit of the BBC and isn't acceptable. The criticism at BBC4 is unjust, and I don't dislike that channel at all - they brought Parks and Rec to the UK for one thing, but their shows do overlap with BBC2, and I'm sure there could be a way to rebrand the three new existing channels to have family entertainment, sport and drama on BBC1, cutting edge documentaries, historical and cultural based and up and coming shows on BBC2 and teen dramas, comedies, documentaries and political based shows on the new BBC3 which would run 24 hours a day.

R.I.P

Ja'mie
Jonah
Family Guy (better on BBC3 tbh)
American Dad (better on BBC3 tbh)

Terrible move :worry:

Yes a Bonus

Why would anyone want to watch tv online.. I don't mind watching old shows and stuff but not an actual tv channel..

Itv>bbc

The only good things about BBC2 is that they show Athletics like all day on there if there's a championship on for a number of days. Other than that it's pointless and I never watch it.

I'd rather lose BBC3 than BBC4.

bbc3 to be replaced with bbc1+1 true story no less :fist::fist::fist: