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Posted by: Andrew. 19th May 2020, 10:48 PM

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52719883

Great news if it happens! There's so little that appeals to me on BBC One these days.

Posted by: lewistgreen 19th May 2020, 11:20 PM

omg PLEASE. It was legit my favourite channel before it got bumped and now I don’t even care for it with the content on iPlayer. I’d much rather have the actual channel itself back

Posted by: Brett-Butler 21st May 2020, 06:56 PM

Great stuff, it will keep the riff-raff away from BBC4.

Posted by: Suedehead2 22nd May 2020, 09:55 PM

Releasing your internal Alan Coren.

Posted by: Brett-Butler 22nd May 2020, 11:45 PM

I was hoping someone would get that reference

Posted by: Suedehead2 24th May 2020, 01:58 PM

Glad to be of service

Posted by: Mart!n 24th May 2020, 02:51 PM

Actually BBC3 is to replace BBC4 as I heard they were scraping it, unless they have changed their mind over it.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 24th May 2020, 02:54 PM

That's just a rumour currently, and the BBC have said they have "no plans" to scap BBC4, though that may of course change.

That to me would make no sense, the reason for scrapping BBC3 in the first place was something like they found their average audience was 30-40, not the young people who they were targeting.

Posted by: Envoirment 24th May 2020, 04:25 PM

They didn't scrap BBC3 completely though, they just moved it online. I assume they'll bring it back because it's being doing quite well, particularly with younger audiences since? I'm not sure about the other programs, but I know Drag Race UK was a big success. So much so they aired the season on BBC 1 after it had finished.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 24th May 2020, 04:35 PM

Yeah I meant the TV channel, should've made that clearer.

Drag Race and This Country have been it's biggest shows (though This Country has ended), if the BBC3 channel does come back - it would be a good idea for new episodes of Drag Race to premiere on the channel, and then on iPlayer right after.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 28th September 2020, 02:26 PM

Omg it's happening

I hope the budget for shows is increased, you have loads of high quality programming from them like Drag Race and Young Offenders - but an awful lot of cheap web shows as well

Posted by: Miss J00ps 28th September 2020, 06:11 PM

now I just want to see a Drag Race/Young Offenders crossover

Posted by: gavindeejay 28th September 2020, 07:11 PM

So what will happen to BBC Four?

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 28th September 2020, 07:15 PM

Nothing I assume?

Posted by: Garden Snake 28th September 2020, 07:25 PM

Its a good time for it to return with its target audience age group having a little more time to watch TV because of less nights out because of the pandemic. I am sure it will shed some of the lowbrow offerings that led it to be heavily criticized in some parts of the media originally, I think it already has on its online version though and has a focus on mostly comedy and documentaries now .....

Posted by: gavindeejay 28th September 2020, 08:11 PM

BBC Four currently uses the bandwidth from CBeebies once it goes off air at 6:58pm so unless CBBC goes back to finishing at 7pm or BBC Four starts at 9pm once CBBC goes off air something will change or they’ll move Four to online only and show its programmes on BBC Two?

Posted by: Steve201 28th September 2020, 10:03 PM

Better not replace bbc 4 best channel they have

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 28th September 2020, 10:06 PM

Ah I see. My prediction is CBBC will move back to finishing at 7pm.

Before the watershed they could air programmes aimed at the older end of CBBC's target audience, even going back to nostalgia programming like original Tracy Beaker and The Sarah Jane Adventures. The new Tracy Beaker series for BBC Three would work there as well.