To be gutted that BBC3 has gone?

[LordBrightside]

In 2007 they took ABC1 from us and now The Man has taken away BBC3.

Really feel the BBC Trust has let us all down on this one. This is the time at night when I would normally flick over for some Family Guy before going to sleep and BBC3 overall gave us a lot of really good comedy and gave shows their start.

Bastards.

YABVU.

I wish the BBC just had two channels again and less repeats. Anything highbrow goes to BBC4 / knolwedge and we are left with very low rent stuff on bbc - especially the science stuff.

lordbrightside BBC4 is great for documentaries, particularly science and history. It also has some really good music documentaries too (60s/70s/80s stuff).

The BBC are under huge financial pressure (have been forced by the government to let the elderly watch for free) and are under massive on-going attack by the government. Do you really expect nothing to change? Start blaming the right people.

I feel like I'm missing out now. What's good on BBC4 other than the scandinavian stuff?

Il Giovane Montalbano ?

Start blaming the right people.

That's more Murdoch and News International, who have hated the BBC from day one.

Bottom line is when BBC were producing quality content - for "free", while Skys output was pathetically dismal, the question was "why would anyone pay for Sky ?". Bearing in mind it was the area of news that started the bunfight. BBC news is free, so why ever pay to access the Times website ?

Answer ? A cabal of NI cronies (looks at David "Rebekah Brooks is a friend" Cameron) who will deliver a merciless shitstorm onto the BBC to reduce it to a footnote in broadcasting history.

Despite any personal quirks, it's hard not to applaud, admire, and support Lord Reiths mandate for the BBC to "Educate. Inform. Entertain".

For me, the only solace is that internet has evolved faster than human behaviour, and disrupts the provider hegemony. Which is why some politicians are trying to turn it into the C16th equivalent of banned books.

Maybe

Trouble is, the licence fee pays BBC staff's pension bill & overseas radio broadcasts (what's left of them). Not much left to provide a BBC.

This is from 2012 but gives a very good broad visual about what the BBC spends on what. Link

i loved bbc3 too. although had seen every family guy 93842 times so glad it's the new fg that's going to itv2.

wonder if stacey dooley will be on bbc1 now? i think she's faulous (because she wants my feedback, obviously).

Apart from the few big names, BBC staff earn remarkably little. The BBC is famous for how little it pays.
It does an incredible amount with what it gets from the licence fee. But the government are out to get rid, to make more room for their own billionaire cronies, eg Murdoch.

The target audience for BBC3 is young people, and young people now very rarely watch live TV according to all the latest research - so it makes sense to bung it online like Netflix. You can still watch the progs in iplayer if you have it on your smart TV too.

What ages are young leople? I'm in my 30's and watched it every night!
Most of my friends who range from 20-35 watched it and some use netflix, but would rather watch tv.
The bbc are happy to spend money in other ways but not on keeping certain viewers happy. The fact that there were numerous petitions go stop bbc3 going clearly meant nothing.

Hotter than my Daughter, Snog Marry Avoid, Sexy at Sixty (and only one of these is a made up title) - I always thought that BBC3 was trying to provide an irrefutable argument for abolishing the licence fee.

"This is the time at night when I would normally flick over for some Family Guy before going to sleep"

Me too. What the hell BBC?!

I never watched BBC3 - didn't have any programmes that appealed to me and I'm really grateful that they didn't touch BBC4 which I like and watch a lot.

"Family guy is going to ITV2"

But this means I'll have to endure adverts for Peter Endre shoehorned in the middle!

All the BBC is these days is shit shows, soaps and repeats

All the BBC One is these days is shit shows, soaps and repeats

Yet i don't know anyone bar my mother that watches bbc4. Even my friends with kids are gutted that bbc3 has gone.
I never used to mind snog, marry avoid, it made me laugh.

Agree with you OP. I loved BBC3 but won't be watching online (uses up too much data) and I feel I have already paid for it. (I had to renew my TV licence today so feeling doubly sore!)

Rarely watched it.

YABU BBC3 was utter rubbish. Good riddance I say. Dumbed down shite that is was. Channel 4 next I hope!!!

Peter Andre isnt on itv2 anymore we are safe. To balance out my mucky family guy viewing I like Bbc4 too lots of history programmes i like.

BBC FOUR is superb...

YABU (not really)

But I was told that we'd get BBC1+1 in the cable slot instead of BBC3 and if that's true it's marvellous. Yes you can use iplayer but so much easier just to switch onto BBC1 playing an hour later. If that's not true and we're just getting some different sort of dross then that's a shame.

I was really pissed off yesterday that they were plugging the online switch with Cuckoo, which is one of my favourite shows. I hate, hate, hate watching TV online; it doesn't fit in with the way our household works. I only got a bloody Freeview box when I really had to. I don't have a smart TV. There's no cable where I live and I refuse to consciously give Rupert Murdoch money by signing up to Sky. So big fat raspberries to whoever decided to take BBC3 away from stubborn old farts like me.