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Moderate success? The Wright Way was panned by critics and the general public alike, and was cancelled after one series. It rated worse than both Citizen Khan and Mrs Brown's Boys by quite a way.

Citizen Khan is being shown in Australia, New Zealand, and India, and has been renewed for a fourth series.

Compare MBB with Khan. Khan is performing poorly in comparison in the UK ratings.

When Khan gets over 10m for an average episode, I'll come back to you on this one.

Clearly the show is preforming well enough to be renewed for a FOURTH series, and the comissioner and creator think there is much more that can be done.
IMO Citizen Khan is quite good, it's not exactly hillarious but for me it's more of a feel good show than comedy. But that's my taste.
There's no denying that MBB does better in the ratings, but to be fair they're two completley different situations and they've been around longer.

Looks an awful show to me and a clear example of why BBC3 is needed. Comedy more than any other area has been their success story over the last decade and while some is better forgotten the hit ratio is probably the highest of any UK channel.

And one thing which hasn't really changed with comedy over the last 40 years is how important repeats are. A show people have to find on the iPlayer isn't going to be able to grow in the way that a show which is repeated fairly frequently between series is.

I've never seen Mrs Brown's Boys in full but from looking at the trail for the Christmas episode it doesn't look like something i'll laugh at or even watch.

I've seen Mr Khan and again I didn't laugh once and for a moment I thought one of the characters was impersonating an Indian accent, answers on a post card if you can guess which one.

If you watch Sky's home grown comedy output, they're doing exactly the PSB style of comedy that the BBC isn't currently providing. Psychobitches has BBC Four written all over it, while Trollied and Stella are the mass market comedies BBC One should be commissioning.

Sky News is even trying to target the BBC Three demographic with their project to attract first time voters.

While they're not money making for Sky, they prove that the commercial sector with a subscription model can provide what is supposed to be unique about the BBC.

Regarding MBB, while it has similarities with Khan, there's one major difference, there's at least one belly laugh moment, even if 95% of each episode is childish. The breaking of the fourth wall helps too, where as Khan appears to use the 70s/80s sitcom template with a few Asian references.

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Unsurpisingly the replies fall into two camps: those who don't want it closed and those who don't care if it does.

That's a pretty disgusting tweet really - they're basically trying to make job losses sound like a good thing.

There's a BBC Three trailer for the new season of programmes with the tagline "It looks like a good year" Not if you're a linear viewer to BBC Three that is.

Isn't that the trailer that has the theme of Armageddon though? Tongue in cheek perhaps?

On Monday, the new episode of Waterloo Road gets it's premiere on BBC Three at 8pm, then repeated on BBC One at 10.35pm.

It seems the BBC have moved Waterloo Road to BBC Three for the first broadcast of the second half of the series with a later repeat on BBC One. Is this a cynical move either to save money from the BBC Three budget or to increase BBC Three audience figures?