Would be nice if they put BBC Three or Four on all day too instead of just from 7pm.
As things stand, they can't do that because the BBC3 & 4 transmissions share the terrestrial bandwidth and satellite transponders with the CBBC and Cbeebies channels which transmit during the day.
My guess is that BBC3 is going. It seems to me that content has already reduced in quality and quantity with more repeats being transmitted. Weirdly this seemed to coincide with starting the HD versions of the channels.
Technically with iplayer we don't need any of them. We have 4oD demand on 5, itv player too, with sky on demand. I wouldn't be surprised if before long all tv was sky plus planner style watch what you want when you want and they done away with every channel apart from a few live sport/event channels.
To quote Alan Partridge, terrestrial TV is a dead duck. Virtually nothing of worth is on any of the main channels anymore. There is no such thing as daytime and primetime TV anymore, the line has been blurred - no matter what time of the day you tune in you're guaranteed to find either a home improvement show, a reality show, a Jeremy Kyle style show or some really crap quiz show (I never thought it could get any worse than the Weakest Link but Pointless is by far the worst quiz show ever to be broadcast at a peak hour).
BBC3 getting the axe wouldn't be terrible - it seems to be a graveyard of comedies that aren't funny enough to be shown on BBC1 or 2, and vapid documentaries presented by gap year teenagers. Family Guy & American Dad seem to be the only things worth broadcasting, but they don't get put on iPlayer, I imagine due to some horrible licencing law or something.
I agree with sadiejane1981 though, we'd be better off doing away with it all and just having on demand and internet/smart TV. I honestly believe that if the Internet was invented before broadcast television, the idea of broadcast transmission of video would have never been floated.
Would be nice if they put BBC Three or Four on all day too instead of just from 7pm.
7 until 1 in the morning. That schedul contains eastenders repeat, 2 family Guys and 1 American Dad... completely pointless waste of money. E4+1 is a waste of time too
but Pointless is by far the worst quiz show ever to be broadcast at a peak hour).
I take it you were fortunate enough to have missed the few episodes of "Don't Scare The Hare" which the BBC put out in a Saturday prime time slot before axing it - that made Pointless look like high class entertainment!
Cut em all and give us back our licence fee I say. Always bleating about being short on money but make billions every yr selling their programmes overseas..............
Cut em all and give us back our licence fee I say. Always bleating about being short on money but make billions every yr selling their programmes overseas..............
Good point. What we need is shit tv with loads of adverts.
Maybe a scam. A few years ago BBC 6 Music was put forward for closure, cue lots of complaints and still going. BBC 3 probably is the closest to existing commercial channels but the stuff on 4 costs more to make (even though it's still cheap) and therefore makes a worthwhile saving.
Scheduled TV on separate channels has about 10 years left. It will all appear very strange that we had to watch something at a certain time and that possibly precluded us watching something else. "They are on at the same time" for TV will be like "This is where we came in" when going to the pictures.
Ah, BBC3. The channel that gave us such wonders as 'Little Miss Jocelyn', 'Touch Me I'm Karen Taylor' and 'Marc Wooton Exposed' - three of the worst 'comedy' shows in the history of television. Also famous for launching the 'career' of Lee Nelson.
Funny old world innit. I think Pointless is the best game/quiz show ever. Totally original format, great presenters who are not in the least bit condescending ( I love it when Richard gives a youngster stick for using the excuse that they were not born when so and so happened to try and disguise their ignorance ).
I enjoy Waldemar Januszczak's art documentaries, the music documentaries, the architecture documentaries, Danny Baker's "Brushing up on" and some of the Scandi-noir series on BBC4. I like "Call the Midwife", "Death in Paradise", "Inspector George Gently", "Silk", "Jonathan Creek", "Inside no 9", "Room 101" and "Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle" on BBC1 and BBC2 at the moment, that's without mentioning series that are not currently showing.
Other people enjoy blockbuster US TV series, horror and zombie stories or thick Americans beating up or ripping off other thick Americans. Each to their own I say.
BBC itself is now reporting BBC3 will be iPlayer only, which means no more Family Guy or American Dad as BBC doesn't have the rights to broadcast these online.
I really don't get the Beeb bashing that goes on at all.
It costs us what...the price of a coffee in Starbucks per week maybe? For that you get the best news coverage on the planet both online and on the television, with proper journalists who know their subject be it economics, politics, culture or sport (well maybe not so much the last one...).
You get numerous television channels offering a broad church of output from high brow films, the best foreign dramas, music and documentaries through to soap operas and rubbish but remarkably popular sitcoms.
You also get comprehensive national and regional radio coverage, the iPlayer and it broadcasts and therefore helps educate 100m's people around the world every week. If I remember rightly it even runs it's own academy to help train it's own and other networks broadcast staff.
Even if you consider it politically biased (and I wouldn't agree with that view anyway) quite what more people expect for a couple of quid a week is beyond me.
I can't believe they got rid of Shooting Stars for the PC crap that is Citizen Kahn
I think Citizen Khan has some potential , it just needs some sharper writing. It has good ingredients for a sit-com. Pointless is probably, along with the Chase - one of the two best quiz shows out there at the moment IMO.
I can't believe they got rid of Shooting Stars for the PC crap that is Citizen Kahn
I think Citizen Khan has some potential , it just needs some sharper writing. It has good ingredients for a sit-com. Pointless is probably, along with the Chase - one of the two best quiz shows out there at the moment IMO.
Citizen Khan is total crap as is Miranda and Mrs Brown's boys. These shows make me want to put my foot though the tv.
Sky charge the BBC around £30m a year for it's channels to be broadcast over the network, axing content available on other platforms might save a few pennies. The BBC has been dying for years anyway. Its revenues are up there with Sky but it's so bloated and anyone who's worked for them will tell you if the BBC need 20 people to produce a radio or TV show, commercial stations will need 3.
I'd rather see programmes like Top Gear axed, which at £1m a show would save £10-15m a year. Not bad when they're trying to find £100m in savings. But it's a cash cow for BBC worldwide I guess, despite being completely out of ideas.
I'd rather see programmes like Top Gear axed, which at £1m a show would save £10-15m a year. Not bad when they're trying to find £100m in savings. But it's a cash cow for BBC worldwide I guess, despite being completely out of ideas.
So maybe it wouldn't save the BBC any money at all.
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My guess is that BBC3 is going. It seems to me that content has already reduced in quality and quantity with more repeats being transmitted. Weirdly this seemed to coincide with starting the HD versions of the channels.
BBC3 getting the axe wouldn't be terrible - it seems to be a graveyard of comedies that aren't funny enough to be shown on BBC1 or 2, and vapid documentaries presented by gap year teenagers. Family Guy & American Dad seem to be the only things worth broadcasting, but they don't get put on iPlayer, I imagine due to some horrible licencing law or something.
I agree with sadiejane1981 though, we'd be better off doing away with it all and just having on demand and internet/smart TV. I honestly believe that if the Internet was invented before broadcast television, the idea of broadcast transmission of video would have never been floated.
Everyone who watches it speaks English (of a kind) anyway.
E4+1 is a waste of time too
Scheduled TV on separate channels has about 10 years left. It will all appear very strange that we had to watch something at a certain time and that possibly precluded us watching something else. "They are on at the same time" for TV will be like "This is where we came in" when going to the pictures.
Putting it out of our misery would be a blessing.
I enjoy Waldemar Januszczak's art documentaries, the music documentaries, the architecture documentaries, Danny Baker's "Brushing up on" and some of the Scandi-noir series on BBC4. I like "Call the Midwife", "Death in Paradise", "Inspector George Gently", "Silk", "Jonathan Creek", "Inside no 9", "Room 101" and "Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle" on BBC1 and BBC2 at the moment, that's without mentioning series that are not currently showing.
Other people enjoy blockbuster US TV series, horror and zombie stories or thick Americans beating up or ripping off other thick Americans. Each to their own I say.
It costs us what...the price of a coffee in Starbucks per week maybe? For that you get the best news coverage on the planet both online and on the television, with proper journalists who know their subject be it economics, politics, culture or sport (well maybe not so much the last one...).
You get numerous television channels offering a broad church of output from high brow films, the best foreign dramas, music and documentaries through to soap operas and rubbish but remarkably popular sitcoms.
You also get comprehensive national and regional radio coverage, the iPlayer and it broadcasts and therefore helps educate 100m's people around the world every week. If I remember rightly it even runs it's own academy to help train it's own and other networks broadcast staff.
Even if you consider it politically biased (and I wouldn't agree with that view anyway) quite what more people expect for a couple of quid a week is beyond me.
YESSSSSS!!!!!
So glad it wasn't BBC4.
I'd rather see programmes like Top Gear axed, which at £1m a show would save £10-15m a year. Not bad when they're trying to find £100m in savings. But it's a cash cow for BBC worldwide I guess, despite being completely out of ideas.