Destination Three

Just wondered what people make of Destination Three now it's been on air for a couple of days. Nice idents. Very much an adult version of T4 (think it comes from the Andi Peters stable) ... nice to see it live from Manchester.

Bits I've seen seemed to have too many presenters for too little output. I think Justin Lee Collins is very polarising - you either love him or hate him...

Looked like quite a nice location, and was quite nicely shot, not sure what it is trying to do yet.

Interesting that BBC Three is showing repeats of Farscape - an aging US/Aus Sci Fi series. Given that BBC Three has a very small quota for imported programmes, I'm surprised they haven't use their allowance for something a bit newer.

(Wonder why they seem to have decided never to show the second US series of Queer As Folk which they still own the rights to, after they showed the first series...)

Instead of firing up a studio in Manchester, and paying 7 people to sit around introducing the shows, the money should be better spent paying Ardman to raid the BBC audio archive, and come up with another 20 odd blob idents..

..far more entertaining and clever than JLC can ever aspire to being.

I don't see the point of it. The presenters (of which there are too many) are trying too hard to be hip and with it...but it instead looks awkward and forced. It just seems a waste of money to me.

Justin lee Colins is becoming BBC3's Jimmy Carr

I think that is being very cruel to Jimmy Carr - he at least understands irony...

I've not managed to catch it yet; where does it come from? New Broadcasting House or Granada?

I'd say Granada, it was broadcasting in full 16:9, if it came from New Broadcasting House the quality would be the same as North West Tonight.

Interesting concept and a very nice studio.

But why stick it on at 11:30pm - 2am....the figures watching will be less than 20,000 on a good night.

Live continuity can have a part, but stick it on from 9pm or it's just a waste of money.

Totally agree with you, especially on weekday nights when hardly anyone stays up that late. I think it shoud start at 9pm with this schedule:
2100: Farscape (uncut)
2145: Buffy, the vampire slayer (uncut)
2230: (Break for Eastenders repeat)
2300: Two Pints
2330: Good Girls don't

I think people could bare their eastender being put back 30mins!

LoveTV

From what I can gather, here are a few of the ratings for programmes within Monday's Destination Three...

Little Britian 23:35 - 130,210
Farscape 00:10 - 61,870
Paparazzi 01:00 - 8,160

Stu

Remember there is a diffrence between BBC Manchester and BBC North West

It could be 16:9 as they wouldn't be using NWTs facilities. It's the same principle that meant the network production centres at Pebble Mill and Bristol produce(d) 16:9 programmes for years while their local news areas didn't/don't.

IIRC BBC Manchester/360 Media has a small studio at Oxford road, it was the one used for Pure Soap

Out of vision continuity? Can't see t hat being popular!