FabSwingers.com forum: au reviour BBC3

By *abio OP Man
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

okay... it looks like BBC3 is going to be axed in the shake up... and BBC4 will survive but the skin of its teeth..

without BBC3 there wouldn't have been shows like "little britain"... "gavin and stacey" and "torchwwood" which all debut there...

and a FAB favourite "snog, marry, avoid"..

so.. anyone watch it... any programs they will miss...

i actually like "bad education" with jack whitehall.. and "being human".. but other than that.. its where they show family guy and american dad!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Doubtless it will be so that the BBC can find more exciting reality programming about difficult planning committee meetings.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

after about 10pm i watch very little else than bbc3.

its very disappointing.

i very rarely watch anything else on the bbc media

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

It won't make sense to have 1, 2 and 4.

Being Human was my only really BBC3 programme. It's not really aimed at my demographic though. My nephew will miss it.

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By *hyllyphyllyMan
over a year ago

Bradford

Thank god, terrible channel

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I watch BBC 3 quite a bit.

Does this mean that my license fee will go down because they're withdrawing their second best channel?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just watch Dave in 6 months - it'll all be on there!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They do throw the odd documentary on there, repeat or whatever so, I'll miss it for that reason, -no one makes documentarys like the beeb!

.....unless I'm confusing it with bbc4??

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

Whatever will they do with Family Guy and American Dad then?

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By *hyllyphyllyMan
over a year ago

Bradford

According to the bbc website, it'll be online

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26447089

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"They do throw the odd documentary on there, repeat or whatever so, I'll miss it for that reason, -no one makes documentarys like the beeb!

.....unless I'm confusing it with bbc4??"

You are just confused!!you told me you only watch The Great British Bake Off,The Great British Sewing Bee and looking forward to The Hair.

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden

I liked Dirk Gently that was on there and I think Vexed first aired on there also which was OK.

So will Four turn into Three? Or will Four be BBC 2.5?

*such confuse, very dismay*

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Was the celebrity hair salon thing on there? Where they were taught to cut hair for charity? I loved that series.

Other than that I can't think of anything I've watched on BBC3.

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By *ightkitty4uWoman
over a year ago

Epsom

"It won't make sense to have 1, 2 and 4.

Being Human was my only really BBC3 programme. It's not really aimed at my demographic though. My nephew will miss it.

I quote my friend who works for the Beeb when asked the very question on faceache

"Think BBC4 will become BBC Arts or something crap like that"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It won't make sense to have 1, 2 and 4.

Being Human was my only really BBC3 programme. It's not really aimed at my demographic though. My nephew will miss it.

I quote my friend who works for the Beeb when asked the very question on faceache

"Think BBC4 will become BBC Arts or something crap like that""

I was told much the same, and that some of the programming from 3 might end up on 2.

also that contingency plans are being drawn up in case they lose Scotlands £240m annual contribution to the beeb.

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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in North Norfolk

Which BBC were the RI Christmas lectures on?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Which BBC were the RI Christmas lectures on? "

Looking at the interweb, it looks like 2013 series were on BBC4, so should be safe.

In any event, there is probably little enough quality content on 3 and 4 to fit into one channel in my view.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I liked Dirk Gently that was on there and I think Vexed first aired on there also which was OK.

So will Four turn into Three? Or will Four be BBC 2.5?

*such confuse, very dismay*"

Yes, Dirk Gently holistic P I was brilliant - what happened to that?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I enjoy both BBC 3 AND 4 ..... I love the foreign drama on 4 ,,,, the bridge etc if we have to lose a chaanel I am pleased 4 survived.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"They do throw the odd documentary on there, repeat or whatever so, I'll miss it for that reason, -no one makes documentarys like the beeb!

.....unless I'm confusing it with bbc4??

You are just confused!!you told me you only watch The Great British Bake Off,The Great British Sewing Bee and looking forward to The Hair.

Shhhhhhhh!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I won't miss BBC Three a lot of awful shows.I'm glad BBC Four is safe,The Beeb will have to rename it BBC2 Extra.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Whatever will they do with Family Guy and American Dad then?"

On Fox.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Which BBC were the RI Christmas lectures on? "

They used to be on 2 before 3 & 4 existed. Hopefully the decent programme will survive on what remains.

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By *aceytopWoman
over a year ago

from a town near you

uncle was on BBC3 I loved it,also Gavin and Stacey

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The few good shows like Gavin and Stacey end up on BBC1 or BBC2.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Here's a way the. BBC could save money, stop giving Jack Shitall shows, might not be the biggest money saver but I'd be happy.

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By *lackshadow7Man
over a year ago

Toronto

Was never a fan of the channel personally.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love BBC3. The only channels I watch on tv are BBC1 (for the news) BBC3 and e4. Having BBC3 gone will be awful especially as I don't have broadband.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not going to make a difference to me as rarely watch tv and when I do, bbc channels are not ones I choose as nothing on them worth watching

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I sometimes watch bbc3. Hair, family guy dr who

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden

"I liked Dirk Gently that was on there and I think Vexed first aired on there also which was OK.

So will Four turn into Three? Or will Four be BBC 2.5?

*such confuse, very dismay*

Yes, Dirk Gently holistic P I was brilliant - what happened to that?"

After writing that post I thought the same thing so I had a poke about on the internets. Firstly I was wrong and it was actually on BBC4 (then repeated on BBC2) but the sad news is it got cancelled, despite a petition to keep it going. To make cuts BBC4 stopped producing their own dramas full stop.

It was a good show yo!

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By *atasha_DavidCouple
over a year ago

Slough

"I watch BBC 3 quite a bit.

Does this mean that my license fee will go down because they're withdrawing their second best channel?"

"The licence fee settlement agreed between the BBC and the UK government in autumn 2010 is the toughest in the BBC’s history, freezing the licence fee for six years"

In real terms it is going down by approx 3.5% per annum for 6 years.

The savings proposed by terminating transmission of BBC3 will only be achieved by selling off its freeview bandwidth, a move that is likely to continue, in conjunction with its more popular output being moved to subscription ie CBeeBies.

If some over payed and now probably generously pensioned off tosser had not wasted £98 million on a project called DMI then BBC3 would have lived on.

Also buried in the current goverments settlement of licence fee was an

"additional £345m of funding obligations which the BBC has agreed to take over from the government by 2014-15 (including paying for the World and BBC Monitoring, and additional funding for broadband roll-out to local areas and local TV and online content) Adding in these additional obligations means an effective cut of almost 25 percent in funding available for existing BBC activities"

One wonders whether these plans were cooked up when Dave and Rebbekah were round at Ruperts one night.

When all you have is expensive Sky or Virgin and a pathetic PBS channel or two perhaps people will realise how they were robbed while they were sleeping

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"its where they show family guy and american dad!

On a plus point I'll get to bed earlier now!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Scrap all the welsh language stuff, and mix bbc3 and 4's programmes onto 1 channel. we might get to watch something worthwhile on the bbc before 7.30.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It won't make sense to have 1, 2 and 4.

Being Human was my only really BBC3 programme. It's not really aimed at my demographic though. My nephew will miss it.

Being human, family guy, American Dad

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Im glad the bbc are in finacial trouble. They have robbed us blind for years witha compulsory licence fee. I dont pay one any more and dont watch any live tv.

There is a massive uprising now against the bbc licence however they do not publish the figures of non licence payers. Last year alone over 200,000 people stopped paying due to not watching live tv. If you record it on your planner or use the iplayer and watch it 1 second later its no longer live therefore you dont need a licence to watch it

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By *atasha_DavidCouple
over a year ago

Slough

" If you record it on your planner or use the iplayer and watch it 1 second later its no longer live therefore you dont need a licence to watch it"

And if the BBC goes who makes the programmes to record or watch off Iplayer?

Oh and Iplayer is a concept designed and promoted by BBC Research which was funded by the licence fee.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Natasha david

my point is in todays world the technology exists to scramble the channels you dont want. Why are the bbc allowed to force a licence on people when people should be given the opportunity to pay for what they want or what they watch.

If im honest I may watch one show a week on the bbc last thing I watched was luther and that was months ago. I never listen to bbc radio channels. So why shoul I pay a licence fee.

the bbc are going to have to scrap it sooner or later. As al there myths have been debunked. There are no such thing as licence detector vans.

And if you refuse their people entry if they ever come to your house then they have no right of access. You can tell them verbally you are removing their right to implied access and if they return they are actually trespassing.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Here's a way the. BBC could save money, stop giving Jack Shitall shows, might not be the biggest money saver but I'd be happy."

And that god awful waste of license fee Sarah " I've got a vagina and I eat chocolate" Millican. As funny as a burning orphan.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"without BBC3 there wouldn't have been shows like "little britain"... "gavin and stacey" and "torchwwood" which all debut there..."

The Mighty Boosh and Little Britain were both developed on Radio 4 before they came to TV.

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By *rnortholtMan
over a year ago

Waveney Valley

"Im glad the bbc are in finacial trouble. They have robbed us blind for years witha compulsory licence fee. I dont pay one any more and dont watch any live tv.

They're reportedly considering changing the rules so you need a licence for I-player, and why not? After all, why should you get programmes free that other people have paid for?

And while many might question the use of the courts against non-payers, it was the Government and not the BBC that made sure when the seriously hard up as apposed to those making a point, end up before the bench, even if a non financial penalty is imposed, they still have to pay the "Victim Surcharge" which goes into Whitehall's (not of the Jack variety) pockets.

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By *semymouth_2025Man
over a year ago

swanwick, Alfreton

only watch Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents on beeb 3.... wont miss it that much if station gets the chop

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Scrap all the welsh language stuff, and mix bbc3 and 4's programmes onto 1 channel. we might get to watch something worthwhile on the bbc before 7.30."

And BBC Alba, the Gaelic channel. Absolute pish.

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By *rnortholtMan
over a year ago

Waveney Valley

"Scrap all the welsh language stuff, and mix bbc3 and 4's programmes onto 1 channel. we might get to watch something worthwhile on the bbc before 7.30.

And BBC Alba, the Gaelic channel. Absolute pish."

Largely funded by the Assembly - so see how much more of your money gets pished against the wall if he gets his way come September.

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Scrap all the welsh language stuff, and mix bbc3 and 4's programmes onto 1 channel. we might get to watch something worthwhile on the bbc before 7.30.

And BBC Alba, the Gaelic channel. Absolute pish.

Largely funded by the Assembly - so see how much more of your money gets pished against the wall if he gets his way come September."

In an attempt to prove how 'up to date' it is, Alba will soon start broadcasting excerpts from 1960s/ 1970s Nationwide.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Scrap all the welsh language stuff, and mix bbc3 and 4's programmes onto 1 channel. we might get to watch something worthwhile on the bbc before 7.30.

And BBC Alba, the Gaelic channel. Absolute pish."
Ive seen some top notch totty on there. but i love redheads.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i watched a lot of shows on bbc 3, never watched anything on bbc 4

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Scrap all the welsh language stuff, and mix bbc3 and 4's programmes onto 1 channel. we might get to watch something worthwhile on the bbc before 7.30.

And BBC Alba, the Gaelic channel. Absolute pish.

Ive seen some top notch totty on there. but i love redheads."

There's not many like Cathy 'Giggles' MacDonald but you can see her in the flesh, so to speak, in and around the Teuchter Triangle.

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By *hole Lotta RosieWoman
over a year ago

Deviant City

I will miss BBC 3

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By *rtemisiaWoman
over a year ago

Norwich

"okay... it looks like BBC3 is going to be axed in the shake up... and BBC4 will survive but the skin of its teeth..

without BBC3 there wouldn't have been shows like "little britain"... "gavin and stacey" and "torchwwood" which all debut there...

and a FAB favourite "snog, marry, avoid"..

so.. anyone watch it... any programs they will miss...

i actually like "bad education" with jack whitehall.. and "being human".. but other than that.. its where they show family guy and american dad!

I could survive without BBC 3, but I'd be gutted to lose BBC 4!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"okay... it looks like BBC3 is going to be axed in the shake up... and BBC4 will survive but the skin of its teeth..

without BBC3 there wouldn't have been shows like "little britain"... "gavin and stacey" and "torchwwood" which all debut there...

and a FAB favourite "snog, marry, avoid"..

so.. anyone watch it... any programs they will miss...

i actually like "bad education" with jack whitehall.. and "being human".. but other than that.. its where they show family guy and american dad!

I could survive without BBC 3, but I'd be gutted to lose BBC 4!

They will just drop the poorer titles and mix the programing keeping the best and dropping the dross.

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