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Erm... BBC Three really wasn't "doing a perfectly good job as it was" - I actually can't think of a more stale, stuck-in-the-mud channel than BBC Three.
While there have been great successes such as Torchwood and The Mighty Boosh, the typical evening on Three involves at least two repeated-ad-nauseam episodes of Two Pints, some terribly dull documentary with a provocative or attention-seeking name ("F*ck Off, I'm A Hairy Woman", "Sex With Mum & Dad" etc), another documentary without an interesting name and the EastEnders repeat.
Gems like Torchwood and The Mighty Boosh are rare in terms of first broadcasts, and even these are usually repeated to buggery. It's certainly been nice to see Family Guy added in a regular slot, but with two episodes a night, they're ensuring that everyone gets bored of it as quickly as possible.
Let us also not forget that BBC Three hasn't had a new look since it launched almost exactly five years ago.
Almost everything about the channel is boring and lacklustre - a major revamp is desperately needed. I've liked what I've seen so far; although it's not all to my personal tastes, I am very pleased to see BBC Three at least attempting to change, and indeed trying something different with viewer-submitted in-vision continuity.
Why on earth must it be assumed that engaging viewers by asking for their contributions to the continuity will result in the channel becoming "some dumbed down tweenies version" of itself? What an ignorant and illogical opinion.
"Dumbing down" is driven by content, not by presentation, and it will be the choices made regarding the channel's content, not the use of viewers' videos for continuity, that will determine its long-term success.
As pointed out above, I think there is a great deal of room for improvement as far as content goes - one should rightly expect more of the BBC than "Can Fat Teens Hunt?" - and it will be interesting to see if this revamp incorporates substantive changes to the content. I, for one, very much hope so.
But don't for a moment allow your ignorance to get the better of you in thinking that using Lily Allen and inviting viewers to contribute to the feel of the channel automatically means that they are "dumbing down".
Finally, I'm not quite sure where you get the impression that the BBC in some way fails to acknowledge the successes of BBC Three - they have reaffirmed their commitment to the channel repeatedly in recent months, despite calls to bin it in favour of saving jobs, and every time I hear a BBC figure commenting on the channel, it's to heap praise on it.
Could you perhaps offer some insight as to why you think the BBC should "recognise some of the successes" of BBC Three? As far as that assertion is concerned - and indeed your whole post - it appears to me that you have turned around, bent over, pointed your buttocks in the Forum's direction, and started talking out of your chocolate starfish.
p_c_u_k posted:
This sounds like absolute ****e, quite frankly. Some middle-aged businessman's idea of what 'the kids' are after.
BBC3 was doing a perfectly good job as it was, but because of some criticism from the opinion-formers and those within the BBC who think young people are some sub-human species that only talk in textspeak and only watch YouTube because it's grainy quality (as opposed to because they can genuinely pick what they want to see), it looks like it's going to become lowest-common denominator crap.
I hope to be proved wrong, but I doubt it. The best that can happen out of this revamp is that it is superficially the same channel - the worst, that it becomes some dumbed down tweenies version of BBC3. Either way, it ain't gonna improve.
And it's about time the BBC recognised some of the successes of BBC3. Little Britain and Torchwood came from the channel, The Mighty Boosh would never have worked on a mainstream BBC channel without some sort of introduction, Family Guy has a consistent running time there without being shunted to post-snooker 2am showings. And it's also managed to be a testing ground for various other programmes, some of which were successful, some others were (thankfully) prevented from appearing on terrestrial television because of it.
But hey, instant results are all we want nowadays, aren't they...
Rant over.
BBC3 was doing a perfectly good job as it was, but because of some criticism from the opinion-formers and those within the BBC who think young people are some sub-human species that only talk in textspeak and only watch YouTube because it's grainy quality (as opposed to because they can genuinely pick what they want to see), it looks like it's going to become lowest-common denominator crap.
I hope to be proved wrong, but I doubt it. The best that can happen out of this revamp is that it is superficially the same channel - the worst, that it becomes some dumbed down tweenies version of BBC3. Either way, it ain't gonna improve.
And it's about time the BBC recognised some of the successes of BBC3. Little Britain and Torchwood came from the channel, The Mighty Boosh would never have worked on a mainstream BBC channel without some sort of introduction, Family Guy has a consistent running time there without being shunted to post-snooker 2am showings. And it's also managed to be a testing ground for various other programmes, some of which were successful, some others were (thankfully) prevented from appearing on terrestrial television because of it.
But hey, instant results are all we want nowadays, aren't they...
Rant over.
Erm... BBC Three really wasn't "doing a perfectly good job as it was" - I actually can't think of a more stale, stuck-in-the-mud channel than BBC Three.
While there have been great successes such as Torchwood and The Mighty Boosh, the typical evening on Three involves at least two repeated-ad-nauseam episodes of Two Pints, some terribly dull documentary with a provocative or attention-seeking name ("F*ck Off, I'm A Hairy Woman", "Sex With Mum & Dad" etc), another documentary without an interesting name and the EastEnders repeat.
Gems like Torchwood and The Mighty Boosh are rare in terms of first broadcasts, and even these are usually repeated to buggery. It's certainly been nice to see Family Guy added in a regular slot, but with two episodes a night, they're ensuring that everyone gets bored of it as quickly as possible.
Let us also not forget that BBC Three hasn't had a new look since it launched almost exactly five years ago.
Almost everything about the channel is boring and lacklustre - a major revamp is desperately needed. I've liked what I've seen so far; although it's not all to my personal tastes, I am very pleased to see BBC Three at least attempting to change, and indeed trying something different with viewer-submitted in-vision continuity.
Why on earth must it be assumed that engaging viewers by asking for their contributions to the continuity will result in the channel becoming "some dumbed down tweenies version" of itself? What an ignorant and illogical opinion.
"Dumbing down" is driven by content, not by presentation, and it will be the choices made regarding the channel's content, not the use of viewers' videos for continuity, that will determine its long-term success.
As pointed out above, I think there is a great deal of room for improvement as far as content goes - one should rightly expect more of the BBC than "Can Fat Teens Hunt?" - and it will be interesting to see if this revamp incorporates substantive changes to the content. I, for one, very much hope so.
But don't for a moment allow your ignorance to get the better of you in thinking that using Lily Allen and inviting viewers to contribute to the feel of the channel automatically means that they are "dumbing down".
Finally, I'm not quite sure where you get the impression that the BBC in some way fails to acknowledge the successes of BBC Three - they have reaffirmed their commitment to the channel repeatedly in recent months, despite calls to bin it in favour of saving jobs, and every time I hear a BBC figure commenting on the channel, it's to heap praise on it.
Could you perhaps offer some insight as to why you think the BBC should "recognise some of the successes" of BBC Three? As far as that assertion is concerned - and indeed your whole post - it appears to me that you have turned around, bent over, pointed your buttocks in the Forum's direction, and started talking out of your chocolate starfish.