And I guess now those new commissions probably don't exist, hence the move. They really are running the channel down as much as they can.
Indeed.
New Family Guy on BBC Two with future seasons on ITV2.
Odd scheduling of BBC One dramas.
American Dad lost to ITV2 from the autumn.
Even more repeats of Snog, Marry, Avoid.
Random old film scheduling.
Yoof Newsbeat election debates on the NC instead of BBC Three.
Free Speech moving to online (when there's a linear channel still open until 2016).
Yet there has been the Reggie Yates and Stacey Dooley docs and commissions to air in the summer season.
The Crime and Punishment season was fantastic last year, and actually got another airing recently - though I can't remember if the repeats were on Three or somewhere else.
Considering that Radio 1 now has an iPlayer channel and is generating a fair bit of content, I'm surprised none of it has made it to BBC Three. For example, Chris Stark off of Scott Mills does a 20 minute-ish show for iPlayer every week called ICYMI (In case you missed it) - extend it for ten minutes and add a bit of polish (the lower thirds for these iPlayer shows are currently very big and bulky) and surely you've got a fairly decent half an hour show to plug a gap on BBC Three every week? Likewise, you could probably generate another 20-30 minute show every week from the various Live lounge performances, and there's a 20 minute show called 'Charlie Sloth's rap up' that appears to be done weekly, and a 15 minute 'Clickbait' every week. The resources to make these are already available and being used, so it seems silly to not give them further exposure, because at the moment it does seem, IMO, like someone at the BBC is desperate to show that a non-linear Three would work by making lots of exclusive stuff for iPlayer.
Perhaps this is something to consider if Three continues as a linear channel.
Considering that Radio 1 now has an iPlayer channel and is generating a fair bit of content, I'm surprised none of it has made it to BBC Three. For example, Chris Stark off of Scott Mills does a 20 minute-ish show for iPlayer every week called ICYMI (In case you missed it) - extend it for ten minutes and add a bit of polish (the lower thirds for these iPlayer shows are currently very big and bulky) and surely you've got a fairly decent half an hour show to plug a gap on BBC Three every week? Likewise, you could probably generate another 20-30 minute show every week from the various Live lounge performances, and there's a 20 minute show called 'Charlie Sloth's rap up' that appears to be done weekly, and a 15 minute 'Clickbait' every week. The resources to make these are already available and being used, so it seems silly to not give them further exposure, because at the moment it does seem, IMO, like someone at the BBC is desperate to show that a non-linear Three would work by making lots of exclusive stuff for iPlayer.
Perhaps this is something to consider if Three continues as a linear channel.
Completely agree.
Does anyone have any ideas to when BBC Three might go off air?