BBC3 Axed

[Louisa]

Good example - what's on the two channels right now?

BBC Three - new: festivals, sex and suspicious parents - Harry and Hannah go to their first festival experience.

Originality 0/10 - pointlessly following two kids around a muddy field for their first concert. Yawn.

BBC Four - Dancing in the Blitz: How world war 2 made British ballet - the birth of the royal ballet during a period of austerity.

Originality 8/10 - unique and something you'd struggle to find anywhere else. The story of an institution.

Louisa.

[Otta]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> I like the late night music biopics late Saturday

> nights - but I'm usually too sozzled to remember

> whether they are on BBC3 or BBC4......hopefully

> bbc4.

Yep, BBC4. I enjoy some of those too.

A few years back I watched Family Guy most nights for a month or so on BBC3. Since that time I have never watched BBC3 or Family Guy again.

[Cassius]

Dancing in the Blitz was excellent. Also looking forward to seeing Margot Fonteyn dancing in Sleeping Beauty recorded in 1959 tonight. I appreciate not everyone's taste, but preferable (IMO) to live athletics, repeats of Doctor Who or EastEnders.

[northlondoner]

PeckhamRose Wrote:

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> They're not axing it, they're putting it online.

Yeah, that's axing it. And good, cos of late it was shit and an appalling waste of precious resources.

[El Pibe]

To be honest I was vaguely swayed by the article until two things.

Firtsly he reminded me that BBC3 was responsible for two pints of lager and a packet of crisps, a programme so painfully awful it made Miranda look like Fawlty Towers, and secondly he used the word trope...gnnnahhahhaaaaaah

aaaanyway http://thequietus.com/articles/14695-bbc-political-bias

[Otta]

I'm pretty sure Two pints of lager was around well before BBC3. But BBC3 Kept it alive, which was almost cruel.

[Seabag]

BBC3 was past it before it really got there

However, as we're in TV land, i'm rather partial to 'Yesterday' which is great for Nazi hunters and stuff like that

Of course that 'stuff' is solo watching, my other half looks and groans silently when she see's what i'm watching

"At least it's not Dave" I feebly plead as she heads upstairs

But leave BBC4 well alone please

[Millhaven]

Otta Wrote:

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> I'm pretty sure Two pints of lager was around well

> before BBC3. But BBC3 Kept it alive, which was

> almost cruel.

Yes started on BBC2 and then shanked off to BBC3. A show so dreadful no one mourned it's passing.

[Millhaven]

Haha! I find those old war documentaries fascinating, seabag. Yesterday was previously the History channel I think. Or as the missus and I called it, the War channel.

[Seabag]

Well yesterday on 'Yesterday' they had the guy from the Simon Wiesenthal Centre trying to find Dr Death Aribet Heim . After years of persuit it turns out he died in Egypt, but no body or bones to be tested. And 2 million euro in a German bankaccount untouched

Of course he'd be 94 by now, so finding him alive is slim, but a great programme it was

BBC3 was shite

[El Pibe]

It was the unloved child for sure, but it had it's moments.

Mongrels was an absolute classic, Being Human started there, or finished there i forget.

[Otta]

Mongrels was one of the best things on British telly this century, I really mean that. Totally cracked me up.

[El Pibe]

wot otta said

[Millhaven]

I don't think I ever even heard of 'Mongrels' let alone watch it. I'll have to dig it out on Iluvcinema.

'Being Human' got off to a great start but then got really silly be series 2, iirc.

[Otta]

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[Millhaven]

ha! Thanks! I will definitely check 'Mongrels' out.

There was also a great animated series about a bunch of lab animals that had escaped from the lab they were kept in. It was on BBC2 after Newsnight about 7+ years ago. It was hilarious but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called. In fact there were a handful of great UK made adult-themed cartoons back then that just disappeared off our screens.