Louisa Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/41907-bbc3-axed/page/2/#findComment-726606 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otta Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Mick Mac Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/41907-bbc3-axed/page/2/#findComment-727197 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassius Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/41907-bbc3-axed/page/2/#findComment-727347 Share on other sites More sharing options...
northlondoner Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 PeckhamRose Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/41907-bbc3-axed/page/2/#findComment-727491 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 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...gnnnahhahhaaaaaahaaaanyway http://thequietus.com/articles/14695-bbc-political-bias Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/41907-bbc3-axed/page/2/#findComment-728501 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otta Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 I'm pretty sure Two pints of lager was around well before BBC3. But BBC3 Kept it alive, which was almost cruel. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/41907-bbc3-axed/page/2/#findComment-728537 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seabag Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 BBC3 was past it before it really got thereHowever, as we're in TV land, i'm rather partial to 'Yesterday' which is great for Nazi hunters and stuff like thatOf 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 upstairsBut leave BBC4 well alone please Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/41907-bbc3-axed/page/2/#findComment-728561 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millhaven Posted March 11, 2014 Author Share Posted March 11, 2014 Otta Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/41907-bbc3-axed/page/2/#findComment-728629 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millhaven Posted March 11, 2014 Author Share Posted March 11, 2014 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/41907-bbc3-axed/page/2/#findComment-728630 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seabag Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 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 untouchedOf course he'd be 94 by now, so finding him alive is slim, but a great programme it wasBBC3 was shite Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/41907-bbc3-axed/page/2/#findComment-728655 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/41907-bbc3-axed/page/2/#findComment-728659 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otta Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Mongrels was one of the best things on British telly this century, I really mean that. Totally cracked me up. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/41907-bbc3-axed/page/2/#findComment-728662 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 wot otta said Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/41907-bbc3-axed/page/2/#findComment-728669 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millhaven Posted March 11, 2014 Author Share Posted March 11, 2014 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/41907-bbc3-axed/page/2/#findComment-728670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Millhaven Posted March 11, 2014 Author Share Posted March 11, 2014 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/41907-bbc3-axed/page/2/#findComment-728698 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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