BBC Three's schedule tonight

BBC Choice was the best thing to come out of TV ever when it began. In the day they would open up the achive and CBBC On Choice would show 'children's programes from years gone by like older Cucklevision and Bodger & Badger that you'd never get on CBBC channel now and Then specialist theme nights and repeats of stuff you would'nt get anywhere elese. Something tells me if it had keaped on going eventully we'd have gotten repeats of Mary Whitehouse Experience, Lee & Herring, Glam Metal Dectectives etc Maybe even the Goodies.

With the expection of Little Britain BBC3 is a steaming pile of .... (par Little Britain) I personally can't name anything worth while thats ever been shown on there.

The problem with BBC3 is it's quotas means it's often limited to repeating "BBC3" programmes.

If rather than showing the likes of Two Pints endlessly it was allowed to repeat programmes currently airing on BBC1/2 it would provide a much better service to viewers.

IMO those quotas forced on BBC Three were a very bad idea. It's the whole reason why the chanel is so crap.

If BBC Three had never existed they'd still have commissioned Little Britain but shown it on BBC Two instead, just like Harry Enfield, The Fast Show, etc. They just decided to put the show on BBC Three in a lame attempt to justify the channel's existence.

So all in all, it's a pointless channel. They might as well turn it into a "BBC Gold" channel and show old repeats of stuff like Noel's House Party - it'd get reasonable ratings and make a lot of us very happy.

Personally, I think BBC Three is doing okay. Then again I am a very big fan of Two Pints.

I'll almost buy that for Little Britain, and perhaps also for the multi-award winning drama Bodies.

But shows like Sinchronicity, Funland and Monkey Dust would NEVER have been commissioned by BBC Two.

These are shamelessly hitting the 20 and early 30s age-group, which was traditionally underserved by the BBC.

It has to be said that since the inception of BBC Three, BBC One have started producing dramas that have a greater appeal to the younger demographic as well (Spooks, Hustle, Life on Mars etc.).

I've never understood it when BBC Three show spoof documentaries such as Dales Wedding and the ones featuring Michael Aspel and Neil Morrissey. The only thing I can think is that its done for tabloid spin.

That's when the BBC was desperate for publicity for the channel at ALL costs, because BBC Three was possibly in grave danger of 'failing' at that point.

My ideal BBC Three would combine a few elements of the new (eg. the one-offs such as Manchester Passion and perhaps Torchwood depending on how good it is, etc.) with the best of the original BBC Choice (eg. archive repeats, Liquid News in its original format before Stuart Murphy ruined it).

Liquid News was brilliant. It used to be midnight viewing for me. Now I just make do with BBCi Entertainment news.