BBC Three - Trust's final decision published

That was kind of a Jump the Shark moment (schools don't move to a different country, especially not with the same pupils!), true - but that was more than half way through it's run. I wasn't specifically referring to the Scottish episodes though, I was referring to the entire run. It lasted 10 years. If it didn't work, it wouldn't have lasted three.

It's a perfect example as it showed how well BBC3 serves it's audience and how poorly BBC1 serves the "BBC3 audience".

Reverting all content to BBC1 and even BBC2 to a lesser extent is going to take the edge of the BBC3 shows.

A good example is when they 'promoted' Little Britain to BBC1 much to David Walliams and Matt Lucas's distaste who had to town down some of the language and stunts that they done in the previous two series, therefore the series came to a halt after that.

Little Britain did very well on BBC1, and it presumably only ended after that because they'd done three series and were bored with it and too famous (and indeed the third series was probably the one that most relied on vulgarity). After that series they did Little Britain Abroad (one episode of which was on Christmas Day) and Little Britain USA, plus Come Fly With Me which was very much the same, and also on BBC1, and also on Christmas Day. The move worked absolutely brilliantly for them. Gavin and Stacey was another one, that ended up on Christmas Day as well.

Sometimes though it's all about perception, whether they're right or not. Although both those series aired on all three channels I do think viewers have different expectations of a series launching on BBC1, BBC2 and BBC3.

Has it been said how series will be released online - will it still be weekly, or will they move to releasing all episodes of a scripted series together?

What I think the BBC needs to do is have some sort of BBC 1/2 catch up on the BBC Three IPlayer page. It basically means that if an youth misses their programmes, they can watch BBC Three to catch up on the programmes that just were on BBC 1/2

But isn't that what iPlayer is for, to catch up on what you've missed?
You appear to be suggesting a catch-up service to watch programmes that are already on catch-up. Or am I misunderstanding?

I'm not sure I buy this inference that Little Britain and Gavin & Stacey wouldn't have been commissioned without BBC3.

Little Britain and Gavin and Stacey were destined to move across as they were mainstream in nature, but Three did give them an opportunity to be commissioned earlier than if they pitched to One or Two.

However, I doubt People Just Do Nothing would have been commissioned by BBC Two. It's too yoof and urban for middle England's palette.

BBC Three was a great launchpad for new talent who, eventually and evidently, moved into the mainstream via BBC One and BBC Two. It could be argued that the online-based BBC Three will still support this launchpad, but anybody can make something and put it on the internet. Television is still a prestigious platform to be on, in my opinion - when it comes to something of any worth, not reality BS.

Poor money driven decision to axe BBC3 but I suspect that the trust cold argue that the BBC are spending millions on programming who's demographic doesn't pay the licence fee and watches on-line. Not my argument but I've heard it used as an excuse many times.

There is certainly an argument that BBC2 lost its distinctiveness when BBC3 launched. This may not be too bad in the scheme of things.