Quote: faceless @ 8th March 2014, 3:55 AM GMTI should add that I have equal contempt for all hired thugs, British or not. They are all scum.
LOL xD 
BBC Three getting axed Page 7
Quote: Scartledge @ 5th March 2014, 2:47 PM GMTI've just seen this pop up as a headline... Any thoughts?
Will making it available online only seriously effect the quality of its output?
Why give a shit? They aint paying my wages darling!
Quote: faceless @ 8th March 2014, 3:55 AM GMT...*ill informed anti military anti British crap.*
The military is a huge part of your nation's heritage (and economy). Take that away and you become 'Scotland The Cowardly'. Not as good a tagline as you one you've earned, I don't think. Scots being anti military is just not sane, nor is it anywhere near true.
Quote: Judgement Dave @ 7th March 2014, 12:18 PM GMTIt is not 96% of the channel's audience who'll be robbed of the station, it is 96% of the current audience who will not be able to view it in the same manner that they have used up to now. Some, possibly even most, of the 96% who watch the broadcast channel (as opposed to iPlayer) will move to using iPlayer.
That's what I think. Obviously the beeb bods do as well. Their research says a lot of the channel's demog are on line instead of watching telly. So go to where they are and bring them in that way. The switch makes total sense.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 6th March 2014, 8:44 PM GMTCan't comment on the performers, but almost every sitcom on BBC3 in the last few years was written by someone with a list of credits a mile long.
Correct. Those non commissioned writers who believe it being on telly helped their chances of getting work aired on it are floating around in that airy fairy land up there.
Quote: Scartledge @ 5th March 2014, 2:47 PM GMTWill making it available online only seriously effect the quality of its output?
Maybe they won't feel the need to chase ratings so much, and so be able to give us something more adventurous?
Whilst American Dad & Family Guy has other outlets in the UK, has any other channel shown Chris Lilley's works?
And if BBC3 goes online will we lose shows like that as it would presumably move to just homegrown output?
I totally agree with you there dave
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 6th March 2014, 8:04 PM GMTPeople sign e-petitions the way I fart - constantly and without thinking and both are just stinky hot air. From the figures, the e-petition is now BBC3's fifth highest rated programme.
I do feel sorry for Jack Whitehall's agent, who must be getting hand cramp from making up so many fake names on the Internet.
Quote: Badge @ 6th March 2014, 8:33 PM GMTA lot of blinkered thinking on here. I can't remember the last time I watched BBC Three but I'm reasonably sure that if you reduce your programming output and what you have left is on mainstream channels then it isn't good news for new talent and innovation. I might not watch it but I'm glad it's there. Now it won't be.
I see where you're coming from but there are lots of ways of reducing programming output. One is (counter-intuitively) having more channels.
Sky TV has laid waste to the TV culture of this country over the past decade and a half by giving people so many channels. Have you seen the way the average Sky viewer consumes TV? BBC1 is no more important to them than Alibi or PIck TV. They won't be watching stand-out TV of the moment like say, The Line of Duty, because they'll be watching crap like Sleepy Hollow or Person of Interest.
BBC three aired some of my favourite programmes of all time - perhaps yours as well. I mentioned them earlier in the thread - Bodies, Funland, Conviction, Boosh. There is a very good argument to be made that these shows would not have seen the light of day on BBC1 or 2, but those days are emphatically gone Badge.
Since it's last rebranding as a sticker on a BMX bike BBC3 has been an embarrassment.
According to BBC folks at the Salford Comedy Festival, chances are that BBC Three moving online is going to result in commissioning less 6 x 30 minute sitcom series, but more short-form stuff. Which is theoretically
good news for newer writers and performers, because Jack Whitehall probably isn't getting out of bed for what a ten-minute iPlayer video pays.
I can't see what all the hoo har is
I think the BBC3 bosses have no clue about this channel etc one of the boss on the free speech show was thick as pig shit.
Quote: Godot Taxis @ 10th March 2014, 7:08 PM GMTThey won't be watching stand-out TV of the moment like say, The Line of Duty, because they'll be watching crap like Sleepy Hollow or Person of Interest.
It's funny that you single out those two shows as crap. They are actually two of the better shows that we have on the air over here at the moment.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 8th March 2014, 10:16 AM GMTThe military is a huge part of your nation's heritage (and economy). Take that away and you become 'Scotland The Cowardly'. Not as good a tagline as you one you've earned, I don't think. Scots being anti military is just not sane, nor is it anywhere near true.
F**k heritage, f**k what the English think. Being called cowardly by people who wrap themselves in the idea of being British can burn in hell for all I care.
You are British faceless. Unless I am missing something??