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BBC Three

February 01, 2023

"BBC3" redirects here. For the BBC radio station, see BBC Radio 3. For other uses, see BBC3 (disambiguation).
This article is about the British television channel. For the Internet service, see BBC Three (streaming service).

BBC Three is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It was first launched on 9 February 2003 with programmes targeting 16 to 34-year-olds, covering all genres including animation, comedy, current affairs, and drama series.[1] The television channel closed down in 2016 and was replaced by an online-only BBC Three streaming channel. After six years of being online, BBC Three returned to linear television on 1 February 2022.[2] It broadcasts every day from 19:00 to around 04:00, timesharing with CBBC (which starts at 07:00).

BBC Three
Logo used since 2022
CountryUnited Kingdom
Broadcast areaUnited Kingdom
Guernsey
Isle of Man
Jersey
NetworkBBC Television
HeadquartersLondon, England
Programming
Language(s)English
Picture format1080i/1080p[a] HDTV
(downscaled to 576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
OwnerBBC
Sister channelsBBC One
BBC Two
BBC Four
BBC News
BBC Parliament
CBBC
CBeebies
BBC Scotland
BBC Alba
History
Launched9 February 2003; 19 years ago (2003-02-09) (original)
1 February 2022; 11 months ago (2022-02-01) (relaunch)
ReplacedBBC Choice
Closed16 February 2016; 6 years ago (2016-02-16) (original; ceased remaining operations on 31st March 2016)
Links
WebsiteBBC Three
Availability
Terrestrial
FreeviewChannel 23 (SD)
Channel 109 (HD; England & NI only)
Streaming media
BBC iPlayerWatch live (UK only)
Sky GoWatch live (UK & Ireland only)

BBC Three is the BBC's youth-orientated television channel,[3] its remit to provide "innovative programming" to a target audience of viewers between 16 and 34 years old, leveraging technology as well as new talent.[1] Unlike its commercial rivals, 90% of BBC Three's output originated from the United Kingdom. Notable exceptions were Family Guy and American Dad (both of them originating in the United States). It and sister channel BBC Four also carry occasional BBC Sport programming as an overflow for the BBC's other channels.

Following budget cuts at the BBC, the first iteration of BBC Three ceased operations on 16 February 2016, despite public opposition, moving to a BBC Three-branded streaming channel on the iPlayer.[4] It returned to broadcast television in the form of a late-night strand on BBC One on Monday to Wednesday nights since 4 March 2019. On 2 March 2021, the BBC confirmed that it planned to relaunch BBC Three's linear television channel in 2022 subject to regulatory approval,[5] which was approved in November that year.[6]

History

Original run

 
Logo used from 2003 to 2008
 
Logo used from 2008 to 2016

In mid-2000, the BBC decided to reposition and rebrand their two digital channels so that they could be more closely linked to the well established BBC One and BBC Two. Their plan was for BBC Knowledge to be replaced with BBC Four (which took place in 2002) and for BBC Choice to be replaced with BBC Three. However, questions were raised over the proposed format of the new BBC Three, as some thought the new format would be too similar to the BBC's commercial rivals, namely ITV2 & E4 at the time. It would be unnecessary competition. Whilst BBC Four, the BBC's proposed children's channels and digital radio stations all received approval, the BBC Three plans were rejected in September 2001.

The channel was eventually given the go ahead, eleven months after the original launch date on 17 September 2002, following a change to the remit of the channel where a 15-minute news programme and an altered target age range of 25-34 audiences. BBC Three was launched on 9 February 2003.[7] The channel was launched by Stuart Murphy, who previously ran BBC Choice, and before that UK Play, the now-discontinued UKTV music and comedy channel. At 33, Murphy was still the youngest channel controller in the country, a title he had held since launching UK Play at the age of 26; although on 20 October 2005 it was announced that Murphy was soon to leave the channel to work in commercial television. On 12 May 2011, BBC Three was added to the Sky EPG in the Republic of Ireland on channel 229.[8] It was later moved to channel 210 on 3 July 2012, to free up space for new channels.

For the duration of the 2012 Summer Olympics, BBC Three increased its broadcasting hours to 24 hours to provide extra coverage of Olympic events.[9] Broadcast hours were extended again for the 2014 Commonwealth Games with BBC Three broadcasting from 9:00 am to 4:00 am for the duration of the games.[10] On 16 July 2013 the BBC announced that a high-definition (HD) simulcast of BBC Three would be launched by early 2014.[11] The channel launched on 10 December 2013.[12]

The former controller of the station, Zai Bennett,[13] left to join Sky Atlantic in July 2014, at which point BBC Three commissioner Sam Bickley became acting controller.[14]

Replacement by Internet service

 
Logo used from 2016 to 2021
 
Logo used from 2021 to 2022

In February 2014, BBC Director-General Tony Hall announced that cuts of £100 million would have to be made at the corporation; Hall stated that the corporation could be forced to close one of its television services as a cost-savings measure.[15] On 5 March 2014, Hall announced a proposal to convert BBC Three, discontinuing it as an "open" television service and turn it into an over-the-top Internet television service with a smaller programming budget and a focus on short-form productions.[15][16][17] These changes formed part of a package of proposals from the BBC, including extending CBBC's hours, reallocating £30 million on BBC One audiences for drama, and launching a one-hour timeshift channel of BBC One.[18] There was notable backlash against the measures, with celebrities including Greg James, Matt Lucas and Jack Whitehall speaking out.[19] A petition against the move on change.org has gathered over 300,000 signatures. However, there was some support from media commentators, and those who backed a "slimmer" BBC.[20][21]

When the BBC revealed the full detail in December 2014, it admitted there was widespread opposition from BBC Three viewers[17] but said there was support for the wider package of proposals. They believed the public welcomed a BBC One +1 as it admits "a vast majority of viewing still takes place on linear channels".[17] The "Save BBC Three'" campaign pointed out this was a contradiction to what the BBC said about BBC Three.[22] The BBC Trust began a 28-day public consultation regarding the plans on 20 January 2015[23] and it ended with a protest outside Broadcasting House.[24] As part of the consultation a letter of 750 names against the move from the creative industry was sent to the BBC Trust, and this had the backing of a number of celebrities including Daniel Radcliffe, Aidan Turner, Olivia Colman and Lena Headey.[25] The polling company ICM concluded a "large majority" of those that replied to the consultation were against the move,[22] with respondents particularly concerned about those who cannot stream programming online, the effect of the content budget cuts, and the BBC's own admission the audience numbers would drop.[22]

Despite significant public opposition, the proposal was provisionally approved by the BBC Trust in June 2015,[26] and nonetheless the BBC Trust issued its final decision to approve the transition in November 2015, citing the fact that younger audiences have increasingly migrated to online television content as opposed to linear television channels, and the BBC's ability to "deliver more distinctive content online, while bearing down on costs". Conditions were imposed on other BBC properties to complement the changes; BBC One and Two will be required to develop "distinctive programmes designed for younger audiences", as well as air encores of all full-length programmes that originally premiere on the BBC Three online service. The Trust also approved related proposals to allow first-run and third-party content on iPlayer, as well as extend CBBC's broadcast day to 9:00 p.m. The BBC One timeshift service was rejected, citing "limited public value".[27][28] Jimmy Mulville and Jon Thoday of independent production companies Hat Trick Productions and Avalon reportedly considered legal action against the Trust if it went ahead with the closure of the channel.[29] They had previously offered to buy the channel to keep it on television, but the BBC said the channel was not up for sale.[30]

BBC Three ended regular programming during the early morning of 16 February 2016. Its final programme was an episode of Gavin & Stacey, introduced by co-star James Corden from the Los Angeles studio of his U.S. talk show The Late Late Show.[31][32] The channel space carried promotional information regarding the BBC Three online service until it officially shut down on 31 March.[33][34][35]

From March 2019, programmes from the new service were carried by BBC One from Monday to Wednesday after the BBC News at Ten under the name BBC Three on BBC One.[36][37]

Return to linear television

In May 2020, the BBC submitted its annual general plan for 2020–2021. It stated that the broadcaster was considering reinstating BBC Three as a linear channel with a doubled budget, citing that its content "now has the potential to reach a wider audience on a linear channel, as well as the key demographic which will continue to watch online."[38] A number of series carried by the service, including Fleabag and Normal People, had achieved strong critical acclaim, with Fleabag in particular winning multiple Primetime Emmy Awards.[39][40]

On 2 March 2021, the BBC officially announced plans to reinstate BBC Three as a linear channel by January 2022, subject to approval by Ofcom. As before, it will timeshare with the CBBC channel and broadcast from 7:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. nightly. There will be pre-watershed programming targeting teenagers as part of the schedule.[39][41]

On 16 September 2021, the UK media regulator Ofcom announced provisional approval for allowing BBC Three to return as a broadcast channel in 2022. As a public service channel it has the right to appear in the top 24 channels on EPGs. Sky complained that this would cause other channels to be bumped down the list to a less prominent position.[42][43] On 25 November 2021, Ofcom announced it had given final approval for BBC Three to relaunch as a broadcast channel with a set period of February 2022, one month later than originally expected.[6] A final logo of BBC Three as a streaming service was handled over the relaunched linear service; however, instead of pink, it uses a lime green colour.

On 5 January 2022, CBBC returned to its pre-2016 hours[44] and BBC Three began test broadcasts on 10 January 2022 ahead of its relaunch on 1 February 2022.[45] Following an introduction by Bimini Bon-Boulash, the relaunched channel's first programme was The Launch Party, a preview special hosted by BBC Radio 1's Clara Amfo and Greg James. This was followed by news programme The Catch Up, an Eating With My Ex celebrity special, and the premieres of RuPaul's Drag Race: UK Versus the World, Lazy Susan, and the documentary Cherry Valentine: Gypsy Queen and Proud.[46][47]

On 8 September 2022,[48] the BBC decided to scrap all programming on the channel to preserve the bandwidth[49] for BBC News's breaking news coverage of Elizabeth II. Unlike BBC One and BBC Two there were not too many amendments to the schedule over the following days, with Thursday's MOTDx [50] being moved to 9pm on Friday 9 September 2022[51] and a repeat of Sky High Club: Scotland and Beyond[52] being added to the line-up afterwards to make up the time where Canada's Drag Race was initially scheduled.

BBC Three HD

 
BBC Three HD logo (2013–2016)

A high-definition version of BBC Three launched on 10 December 2013 along with high-definition versions of BBC Four, BBC News, CBBC and CBeebies.

Programming

The remit of BBC Three is to bring younger audiences to high quality public service broadcasting through a mixed-genre schedule of innovative UK content featuring new UK talent. The channel should use the full range of digital platforms to deliver its content and to build an interactive relationship with its audience. The channel's target audience is 16–34-year-olds.

— BBC Three Remit[1]

The channel's target audience is 16–34-year-olds,[53] and it faces heavy competition from rivals including ITV2 and E4,[54] for an audience that the BBC has traditionally had difficulty in attracting. In 2008 it reached 26.3% of 16–34-year-olds in digital homes—the channel's highest ever such reach and above that of E4, ITV2, Dave and Sky 1.[55]

On average, nine million people watched BBC Three every week,[56] and it had a 2.6% share of the 15–34-year-old audience and 1.4% of the whole population, according to the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB). These ratings by BARB, the official ratings agency, average out BBC Three's viewing figures over a 24-hour period even though the channel only broadcasts in the evening, giving a distorted sense of the channel's viewership. Despite several official complaints from the BBC, BARB continued to publish figures which the BBC argues are unrepresentative.[when?][citation needed]

BBC Three's programming consists of comedy, drama, spin-off series and repeated episodes of series from BBC One and BBC Two, and other programmes that attempted to alert others of their actions through a series of programmes challenging common beliefs.

An example of BBC Three's comedy output includes the award-winning comedy Little Britain, which in October 2004 broke its previous viewing record when 1.8 million viewers tuned in for a new series.[57] Little Britain was later broadcast on the BBC's terrestrial analogue channels BBC One and BBC Two. The channel's longest-running comedy programme is Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. Some current programmes feature stand-up comedians performing their own take on a subject, usually the news, examples of which include Russell Howard's Good News (which later transferred to BBC Two, partly due to its success, and partly to BBC Three's move to online only) and Lee Nelson's Well Good Show.

Comedy and drama

The channel airs various comedies and dramas; one of its most popular sitcoms is Gavin & Stacey, which first aired in May 2007 and was written by and starred James Corden and Ruth Jones. The sitcom was an instant hit, with subsequent series being moved to other BBC channels and the show being granted a Christmas special. Another example is Being Human, a drama in which a ghost, a vampire and a werewolf share a flat, which has become a success and heralded several new series. American programming also features, with American Dad! and Family Guy being the notable examples.

Numerous popular series were either repeated on the channel or have spin-offs created from them. In early 2003, viewers could watch episodes of popular BBC soap opera EastEnders on BBC Three before they were broadcast on BBC One. This programming decision coincided with the relaunch of the channel and helped it break the one million viewers milestone for the first time. An episode of EastEnders Revealed, which was commissioned for BBC Three and looking behind the scenes of the programme, attracted 611,000 viewers. In 2005, BBC Three commissioned the documentary series Doctor Who Confidential, which was shown immediately after episodes of the new series of Doctor Who had been screened on BBC One. This was followed up in July 2005, when it began to screen repeats of both programmes.

In October 2005, it was announced that BBC Three had commissioned a spin-off drama series from Doctor Who, Torchwood, designed as a post-watershed science fiction drama for a more adult audience. Torchwood launched with 2.4 million viewers in October 2006.[58] Torchwood is the first science fiction programme ever to have been commissioned by the channel, and its popularity led to it being broadcast on BBC Two for the second series, and on BBC One for subsequent series. In 2010, BBC Three began airing episodes of the fifth series of BBC drama series Waterloo Road after they had aired on BBC One as part of its 'catch-up' programming. From January 2015, BBC Three aired the remaining episodes of Waterloo Road before being repeated on BBC One later the same day.[59]

Among its original programming, the channel also gave viewers the comedy drama Pramface, which was written by Chris Reddy and comprised 19 episodes over three series, broadcast between 2012 and 2014.

Documentaries

BBC Three also aired several youth-focused documentaries, including the BAFTA-winning Our War, Blood, Sweat and T-shirts (as well as its subsequent sequels), Life & Death Row and a season of films focused on mental illness. BBC Three also aired specialist factual documentaries, such as How Drugs Work and How Sex Works.

Stacey Dooley, since her appearance on Blood, Sweat and T-shirts in 2008, presented documentaries including Stacey Dooley in the USA (2012–14), Coming Here Soon (2012), The Natives: This is our America (2017), Beaten by My Boyfriend (2015), Stacey Dooley in Cologne: The Blame Game (2016), Sex in Strange Places (2016), Stacey Dooley: Hate and Pride in Orlando (2016), Stacey Dooley on the Frontline: Girls, Guns and Isis (2016), Brainwashing Stacey (2016), Stacey Dooley: Face to Face with Isis (2018), and several other titles under the umbrella title Stacey Dooley Investigates (2009–present).[60][61]

BBC Three also commissions a number of one-off documentaries, including Growing Up Down's (2014), My Brother the Islamist (2011), Small Teen Big World (2010); Stormchaser: The Butterfly and the Tornado (2012) and The Autistic Me (2009). Many were commissioned through BBC Three's FRESH scheme which provided an opportunity for 'the next generation of directors' to make their first 60-minute documentaries for the channel.[62]

In July 2022,[63] a number of documentaries from the regional We Are England strand (featuring celebrities such as Bimini,[64][65] Jayde Adams[66][67] and Jassa Ahluwalia)[68][69] were repeated on BBC Three, alongside a number of similarly formatted 30 minute documentaries, now made to get a premiere showing on BBC Three. However, rather than being grouped under a master brand, like BBC One's We Are England or Our Lives[70][71] programmes, these new documentaries are now just being listed under one off titles such as Filthy Business[72][73] and Queen of Trucks[74][75] on the BBC iPlayer and in programme guides.

News and sport

In its original incarnation, BBC Three featured 60 Seconds, an hourly summary of news, sport and entertainment headlines. They were presented in a relaxed style in keeping with the rest of the channel. As part of the BBC's discussions with the government regarding the founding of the channel, a longer news programme had been promised to provide a daily section of news and current affairs. The News Show, as it came to be called upon launch, was later rebranded The 7 O'Clock News. However, the BBC discontinued the bulletin in 2005, following a recommendation made in the 2004 Barwise Report, which found that the channel's target audience sought news from elsewhere.[76] Upon the 2022 relaunch of BBC Three, a new summary of news, sport and entertainment was launched under the name The Catch Up.

The channel has also shown sports programming. Match of the Day Live broadcast international football matches featuring Wales, often when an England match was being shown on BBC One. The channel also showed some matches of England's Women's team. The 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008 Africa Cup of Nations tournaments were shown on the channel, while it is scheduled to air the semi-finals and final of the 2021 edition.[77]

List of series

General comedy

One-off comedy pilots/specials

  • Sort-It-Out-Man (2003)
  • The Bunk Bed Boys (2004)
  • Sweet and Sour (2004)
  • From Bard to Verse (2004)
  • Killing Time (2004)
  • Hurrah for Cancer (2004)
  • AD/BC: A Rock Opera (2004)
  • 10:96: Training Night (2005)
  • Marigold (2005)
  • Cubby Couch (2006)
  • Bash (2007)
  • Living With Two People You Like Individually... But Not As A Couple (2007)
  • Under One Roof (2007)
  • Green (2007)
  • Moonmonkeys (2007)
  • Be More Ethnic (2007)
  • Biffovision (2007)
  • Splitting Cells (2007)
  • Placebo (2008)
  • Delta Forever (2008)
  • Torn Up Tales (2008)
  • Barely Legal (2008)
  • MeeBOX (2008)
  • LifeSpam: My Child Is French (2009)
  • Ketch! And HIRO-PON Get It On (2009)
  • Vidiotic (2009)
  • Things Talk (2009)
  • Brave Young Men (2009)
  • Mark's Brilliant Blog (2009)
  • May Contain Nuts (2009)
  • The Site (2009)
  • Above Their Station (2010)
  • This Is Jinsy (2010)
  • Laughter Shock (2010)
  • Stanley Park (2010)
  • Dappers (2010)
  • The Inn Mates (2010)
  • The Klang Show (2010)
  • The Adventures Of Daniel (2010)
  • D.O.A. (2010)
  • Chris Moyles' Comedy Empire (2012)
  • The Comedy Marathon Spectacular (2012)
  • An Idiot's Guide To Politics (2015)
  • The Totally Senseless Gameshow (2015)

Sketch comedy

Comedy gameshow

Sitcom

Comedy drama

Live music and stand-up comedy

  • Paul and Pauline Calf's Cheese and Ham Sandwich (2003)
  • Glastonbury Festival (2003–2015)
  • The Fast Show Farewell Tour (2003)
  • Eurovision Song Contest (2004–2015, 2022–)
  • 28 Acts in 28 Minutes (2005)
  • MOBO Awards (2006–2013)
  • The Mighty Boosh Live (2008)
  • Russell Howard Live (2009)
  • Edinburgh Comedy Fest Live (2010–2014)
  • Russell Howard Live: Dingledodies (2010)
  • Three@TheFringe (2011)
  • Simon Amstell: Do Nothing Live (2011)
  • Stand Up For Sport Relief (2012)
  • Live at the Electric (2012–2014)
  • Chris Ramsey's Comedy Fringe (2012)
  • Greg Davies Live: Firing Cheeseballs At A Dog (2012)
  • Russell Howard: Right Here, Right Now (2012)
  • Russell Kane: Smokescreens & Castles (2012)
  • Lee Nelson Live (2013)
  • Seann Walsh's Late Night Comedy Spectacular (2013–2014)
  • Kevin Bridges – The Story Continues (2013)
  • Jack Whitehall Live (2013)
  • Nick Helm's Heavy Entertainment (2015)

Drama

Documentary

Chat show

Repeats

Unscripted and reality

Imports

Most watched programmes

The following is a list of the ten most watched broadcasts on BBC3 since launch, based on Live +7 data supplied by BARB.[78] Number of viewers does not include repeats.

Rank Programme Viewers Date
1 EastEnders Live: The Aftermath 4,537,000 19 February 2010
2 Olympics 2012 4,289,000 11 August 2012
3 2,771,000 1 August 2012
4 Torchwood 2,510,000 22 October 2006
5 2,498,000
6 Olympics 2012 2,368,000 29 July 2012
7 EastEnders: Backstage Live 2,257,000 20 February 2015
8 Olympics 2012 2,162,000 4 August 2012
9 Match of the Day Live 2,069,000 26 June 2013
10 Weakest Link: EastEnders Special 2,005,000 19 February 2010

Presentation

 
One of the former "Blobs" between 2003 and 2008
 
The Discovery package was in action between October 2013 and January 2016, prior to the channel's online move

The channel's original idents were conceived by Stefan Marjoram at Aardman Animations and were used from launch until February 2008. Stuart Murphy was touring Aardman Animations looking for new programming ideas for BBC Three when he spotted the cone shaped creatures, he then took the idea back to the Lambie-Nairn agency, responsible for the BBC Three identity package.[79] A feature of this identity is also the music "Three Is The Magic Number", based (only the lyrics are copied) upon Schoolhouse Rock!.

BBC Online provided a number of downloads and activities based on the channel's identity, these included "BlobMate", screensavers, wallpapers and also games such as BlobLander and BlobBert. The idea used by both Lambie-Nairn, who had developed the branding for CBeebies and CBBC, and Aardman, was to create the BBC Three blobs as a relation to the green and yellow blobs of the children's channels. Kieron Elliott, Lola Buckley, Gavin Inskip and Jen Long provided out-of-vision continuity.

On 22 January 2008 a new channel identity was unveiled. Rebranding was carried out by Red Bee Media, along with agencies MPG and Agency Republic with music and sound design by creative audio company Koink.[80]

In October 2013, BBC Three introduced a new series of idents with a theme of "discovery". Designed by Claire Powell at Red Bee Media, the idents utilised projection mapping effects.[81] The soundtrack for the idents was composed by Chris Branch and Tom Haines at Brains & Hunch.[82]

On 4 January 2016, alongside the announcement of the date for BBC Three's relaunch as an online-only service, a third logo was unveiled. Inspired by the iconography of mobile applications, the new logo incorporated the Roman numeral for the number 3, with the third bar replaced by an exclamation mark. Marketing head Nikki Carr explained that the three bars represented the three principles of BBC Three as a service; making viewers "think", "laugh", and have a voice.[83]

The "tricon" was used as the service's primary logo until 2020, when a more conventional logo box was adopted—connecting and modifying the "T" and "H" in "Three" to resemble the tricon emblem. In October 2021, this wordmark was replaced with one in the BBC's corporate font "Reith Sans" as part of a larger rebranding of the BBC's television channels. The tricon remained in use as a secondary logo, such as in an ident used to present BBC Three programmes on BBC One after the rebrand.

The rebrand in 2021 proved to be short-lived, as with the service's linear relaunch in February 2022, BBC Three adopted a new identity developed by Superunion and BBC Creative, with idents featuring three animated, pink and purple-coloured hands named "Captain", "Spider", and "Pointer" interacting in a lime green backdrop. The channel's presentation features the hands "irreverently [observing] what's going on in popular culture and young people's lives".[84]

Awards

The channel has had critical and popular successes. Most recently, it won Broadcast Magazine's Digital Channel of the Year Award for Best General Entertainment Channel,[85] and MGEITF Non Terrestrial Channel of the Year.

It won more awards in its eleven-year broadcast history than its commercial rivals (Sky 1, Sky Living, E4, ITV2, Channel 5 and Comedy Central) have won in their combined 25-year history. In total BBC Three has won 7 BAFTA awards, 5 British Comedy Awards, 15 Royal Television Society Awards and 5 Rose d'Or Awards since the channel was launched in February 2003.

In 2008, BBC Three's Gavin & Stacey won the BAFTA audience award and the best comedy performance award was awarded to James Corden for his part.[86]

Criticism

The channel came in for criticism from several corners, the most prominent of which came from some of the BBC's long-standing presenters. These included John Humphrys, who argued that BBC Three and BBC Four should be shut down in the face of budget cuts to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, which he presents, as well as Jeremy Paxman.[87][88]

In July 2010 a UK music magazine printed a letter from the pressure group Friends of Radio 3 that criticised BBC Three for having 'comedies, game shows, films and documentaries, but no arts programming at all'.[89] In a later issue another correspondent endorsed this assessment on the basis of a search through issues of the Radio Times, and cast doubt on the BBC's claim (in the document Performance Against Public Commitments 2009/10) that the channel broadcast '54 hours of new music and arts programming' in that year.[90] Two months later the same correspondent wrote in to inform readers that the BBC had refused his 'Freedom of Information' request concerning the titles of the programmes used in calculating the '54 hours' total.[91]

Notes

  1. ^ 1080p25 sometimes only on Freeview

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BBC3 redirects here For the BBC radio station see BBC Radio 3 For other uses see BBC3 disambiguation This article is about the British television channel For the Internet service see BBC Three streaming service BBC Three is a British free to air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC It was first launched on 9 February 2003 with programmes targeting 16 to 34 year olds covering all genres including animation comedy current affairs and drama series 1 The television channel closed down in 2016 and was replaced by an online only BBC Three streaming channel After six years of being online BBC Three returned to linear television on 1 February 2022 2 It broadcasts every day from 19 00 to around 04 00 timesharing with CBBC which starts at 07 00 BBC ThreeLogo used since 2022CountryUnited KingdomBroadcast areaUnited KingdomGuernseyIsle of ManJerseyNetworkBBC TelevisionHeadquartersLondon EnglandProgrammingLanguage s EnglishPicture format1080i 1080p a HDTV downscaled to 576i for the SDTV feed OwnershipOwnerBBCSister channelsBBC OneBBC TwoBBC FourBBC NewsBBC ParliamentCBBCCBeebiesBBC ScotlandBBC AlbaHistoryLaunched9 February 2003 19 years ago 2003 02 09 original 1 February 2022 11 months ago 2022 02 01 relaunch ReplacedBBC ChoiceClosed16 February 2016 6 years ago 2016 02 16 original ceased remaining operations on 31st March 2016 LinksWebsiteBBC ThreeAvailabilityTerrestrialFreeviewChannel 23 SD Channel 109 HD England amp NI only Streaming mediaBBC iPlayerWatch live UK only Sky GoWatch live UK amp Ireland only BBC Three is the BBC s youth orientated television channel 3 its remit to provide innovative programming to a target audience of viewers between 16 and 34 years old leveraging technology as well as new talent 1 Unlike its commercial rivals 90 of BBC Three s output originated from the United Kingdom Notable exceptions were Family Guy and American Dad both of them originating in the United States It and sister channel BBC Four also carry occasional BBC Sport programming as an overflow for the BBC s other channels Following budget cuts at the BBC the first iteration of BBC Three ceased operations on 16 February 2016 despite public opposition moving to a BBC Three branded streaming channel on the iPlayer 4 It returned to broadcast television in the form of a late night strand on BBC One on Monday to Wednesday nights since 4 March 2019 On 2 March 2021 the BBC confirmed that it planned to relaunch BBC Three s linear television channel in 2022 subject to regulatory approval 5 which was approved in November that year 6 Contents 1 History 1 1 Original run 1 2 Replacement by Internet service 1 3 Return to linear television 2 BBC Three HD 3 Programming 3 1 Comedy and drama 3 2 Documentaries 3 3 News and sport 3 4 List of series 3 4 1 General comedy 3 4 2 One off comedy pilots specials 3 4 3 Sketch comedy 3 4 4 Comedy gameshow 3 4 5 Sitcom 3 4 6 Comedy drama 3 4 7 Live music and stand up comedy 3 4 8 Drama 3 4 9 Documentary 3 4 10 Chat show 3 4 11 Repeats 3 4 12 Unscripted and reality 3 4 13 Imports 3 5 Most watched programmes 4 Presentation 5 Awards 6 Criticism 7 Notes 8 References 9 External linksHistory EditOriginal run Edit Logo used from 2003 to 2008 Logo used from 2008 to 2016 In mid 2000 the BBC decided to reposition and rebrand their two digital channels so that they could be more closely linked to the well established BBC One and BBC Two Their plan was for BBC Knowledge to be replaced with BBC Four which took place in 2002 and for BBC Choice to be replaced with BBC Three However questions were raised over the proposed format of the new BBC Three as some thought the new format would be too similar to the BBC s commercial rivals namely ITV2 amp E4 at the time It would be unnecessary competition Whilst BBC Four the BBC s proposed children s channels and digital radio stations all received approval the BBC Three plans were rejected in September 2001 The channel was eventually given the go ahead eleven months after the original launch date on 17 September 2002 following a change to the remit of the channel where a 15 minute news programme and an altered target age range of 25 34 audiences BBC Three was launched on 9 February 2003 7 The channel was launched by Stuart Murphy who previously ran BBC Choice and before that UK Play the now discontinued UKTV music and comedy channel At 33 Murphy was still the youngest channel controller in the country a title he had held since launching UK Play at the age of 26 although on 20 October 2005 it was announced that Murphy was soon to leave the channel to work in commercial television On 12 May 2011 BBC Three was added to the Sky EPG in the Republic of Ireland on channel 229 8 It was later moved to channel 210 on 3 July 2012 to free up space for new channels For the duration of the 2012 Summer Olympics BBC Three increased its broadcasting hours to 24 hours to provide extra coverage of Olympic events 9 Broadcast hours were extended again for the 2014 Commonwealth Games with BBC Three broadcasting from 9 00 am to 4 00 am for the duration of the games 10 On 16 July 2013 the BBC announced that a high definition HD simulcast of BBC Three would be launched by early 2014 11 The channel launched on 10 December 2013 12 The former controller of the station Zai Bennett 13 left to join Sky Atlantic in July 2014 at which point BBC Three commissioner Sam Bickley became acting controller 14 Replacement by Internet service Edit Logo used from 2016 to 2021 Logo used from 2021 to 2022 In February 2014 BBC Director General Tony Hall announced that cuts of 100 million would have to be made at the corporation Hall stated that the corporation could be forced to close one of its television services as a cost savings measure 15 On 5 March 2014 Hall announced a proposal to convert BBC Three discontinuing it as an open television service and turn it into an over the top Internet television service with a smaller programming budget and a focus on short form productions 15 16 17 These changes formed part of a package of proposals from the BBC including extending CBBC s hours reallocating 30 million on BBC One audiences for drama and launching a one hour timeshift channel of BBC One 18 There was notable backlash against the measures with celebrities including Greg James Matt Lucas and Jack Whitehall speaking out 19 A petition against the move on change org has gathered over 300 000 signatures However there was some support from media commentators and those who backed a slimmer BBC 20 21 When the BBC revealed the full detail in December 2014 it admitted there was widespread opposition from BBC Three viewers 17 but said there was support for the wider package of proposals They believed the public welcomed a BBC One 1 as it admits a vast majority of viewing still takes place on linear channels 17 The Save BBC Three campaign pointed out this was a contradiction to what the BBC said about BBC Three 22 The BBC Trust began a 28 day public consultation regarding the plans on 20 January 2015 23 and it ended with a protest outside Broadcasting House 24 As part of the consultation a letter of 750 names against the move from the creative industry was sent to the BBC Trust and this had the backing of a number of celebrities including Daniel Radcliffe Aidan Turner Olivia Colman and Lena Headey 25 The polling company ICM concluded a large majority of those that replied to the consultation were against the move 22 with respondents particularly concerned about those who cannot stream programming online the effect of the content budget cuts and the BBC s own admission the audience numbers would drop 22 Despite significant public opposition the proposal was provisionally approved by the BBC Trust in June 2015 26 and nonetheless the BBC Trust issued its final decision to approve the transition in November 2015 citing the fact that younger audiences have increasingly migrated to online television content as opposed to linear television channels and the BBC s ability to deliver more distinctive content online while bearing down on costs Conditions were imposed on other BBC properties to complement the changes BBC One and Two will be required to develop distinctive programmes designed for younger audiences as well as air encores of all full length programmes that originally premiere on the BBC Three online service The Trust also approved related proposals to allow first run and third party content on iPlayer as well as extend CBBC s broadcast day to 9 00 p m The BBC One timeshift service was rejected citing limited public value 27 28 Jimmy Mulville and Jon Thoday of independent production companies Hat Trick Productions and Avalon reportedly considered legal action against the Trust if it went ahead with the closure of the channel 29 They had previously offered to buy the channel to keep it on television but the BBC said the channel was not up for sale 30 BBC Three ended regular programming during the early morning of 16 February 2016 Its final programme was an episode of Gavin amp Stacey introduced by co star James Corden from the Los Angeles studio of his U S talk show The Late Late Show 31 32 The channel space carried promotional information regarding the BBC Three online service until it officially shut down on 31 March 33 34 35 From March 2019 programmes from the new service were carried by BBC One from Monday to Wednesday after the BBC News at Ten under the name BBC Three on BBC One 36 37 Return to linear television Edit In May 2020 the BBC submitted its annual general plan for 2020 2021 It stated that the broadcaster was considering reinstating BBC Three as a linear channel with a doubled budget citing that its content now has the potential to reach a wider audience on a linear channel as well as the key demographic which will continue to watch online 38 A number of series carried by the service including Fleabag and Normal People had achieved strong critical acclaim with Fleabag in particular winning multiple Primetime Emmy Awards 39 40 On 2 March 2021 the BBC officially announced plans to reinstate BBC Three as a linear channel by January 2022 subject to approval by Ofcom As before it will timeshare with the CBBC channel and broadcast from 7 00 p m to 4 00 a m nightly There will be pre watershed programming targeting teenagers as part of the schedule 39 41 On 16 September 2021 the UK media regulator Ofcom announced provisional approval for allowing BBC Three to return as a broadcast channel in 2022 As a public service channel it has the right to appear in the top 24 channels on EPGs Sky complained that this would cause other channels to be bumped down the list to a less prominent position 42 43 On 25 November 2021 Ofcom announced it had given final approval for BBC Three to relaunch as a broadcast channel with a set period of February 2022 one month later than originally expected 6 A final logo of BBC Three as a streaming service was handled over the relaunched linear service however instead of pink it uses a lime green colour On 5 January 2022 CBBC returned to its pre 2016 hours 44 and BBC Three began test broadcasts on 10 January 2022 ahead of its relaunch on 1 February 2022 45 Following an introduction by Bimini Bon Boulash the relaunched channel s first programme was The Launch Party a preview special hosted by BBC Radio 1 s Clara Amfo and Greg James This was followed by news programme The Catch Up an Eating With My Ex celebrity special and the premieres of RuPaul s Drag Race UK Versus the World Lazy Susan and the documentary Cherry Valentine Gypsy Queen and Proud 46 47 On 8 September 2022 48 the BBC decided to scrap all programming on the channel to preserve the bandwidth 49 for BBC News s breaking news coverage of Elizabeth II Unlike BBC One and BBC Two there were not too many amendments to the schedule over the following days with Thursday s MOTDx 50 being moved to 9pm on Friday 9 September 2022 51 and a repeat of Sky High Club Scotland and Beyond 52 being added to the line up afterwards to make up the time where Canada s Drag Race was initially scheduled BBC Three HD Edit BBC Three HD logo 2013 2016 A high definition version of BBC Three launched on 10 December 2013 along with high definition versions of BBC Four BBC News CBBC and CBeebies Programming EditThe remit of BBC Three is to bring younger audiences to high quality public service broadcasting through a mixed genre schedule of innovative UK content featuring new UK talent The channel should use the full range of digital platforms to deliver its content and to build an interactive relationship with its audience The channel s target audience is 16 34 year olds BBC Three Remit 1 The channel s target audience is 16 34 year olds 53 and it faces heavy competition from rivals including ITV2 and E4 54 for an audience that the BBC has traditionally had difficulty in attracting In 2008 it reached 26 3 of 16 34 year olds in digital homes the channel s highest ever such reach and above that of E4 ITV2 Dave and Sky 1 55 On average nine million people watched BBC Three every week 56 and it had a 2 6 share of the 15 34 year old audience and 1 4 of the whole population according to the Broadcasters Audience Research Board BARB These ratings by BARB the official ratings agency average out BBC Three s viewing figures over a 24 hour period even though the channel only broadcasts in the evening giving a distorted sense of the channel s viewership Despite several official complaints from the BBC BARB continued to publish figures which the BBC argues are unrepresentative when citation needed BBC Three s programming consists of comedy drama spin off series and repeated episodes of series from BBC One and BBC Two and other programmes that attempted to alert others of their actions through a series of programmes challenging common beliefs An example of BBC Three s comedy output includes the award winning comedy Little Britain which in October 2004 broke its previous viewing record when 1 8 million viewers tuned in for a new series 57 Little Britain was later broadcast on the BBC s terrestrial analogue channels BBC One and BBC Two The channel s longest running comedy programme is Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps Some current programmes feature stand up comedians performing their own take on a subject usually the news examples of which include Russell Howard s Good News which later transferred to BBC Two partly due to its success and partly to BBC Three s move to online only and Lee Nelson s Well Good Show Comedy and drama Edit The channel airs various comedies and dramas one of its most popular sitcoms is Gavin amp Stacey which first aired in May 2007 and was written by and starred James Corden and Ruth Jones The sitcom was an instant hit with subsequent series being moved to other BBC channels and the show being granted a Christmas special Another example is Being Human a drama in which a ghost a vampire and a werewolf share a flat which has become a success and heralded several new series American programming also features with American Dad and Family Guy being the notable examples Numerous popular series were either repeated on the channel or have spin offs created from them In early 2003 viewers could watch episodes of popular BBC soap opera EastEnders on BBC Three before they were broadcast on BBC One This programming decision coincided with the relaunch of the channel and helped it break the one million viewers milestone for the first time An episode of EastEnders Revealed which was commissioned for BBC Three and looking behind the scenes of the programme attracted 611 000 viewers In 2005 BBC Three commissioned the documentary series Doctor Who Confidential which was shown immediately after episodes of the new series of Doctor Who had been screened on BBC One This was followed up in July 2005 when it began to screen repeats of both programmes In October 2005 it was announced that BBC Three had commissioned a spin off drama series from Doctor Who Torchwood designed as a post watershed science fiction drama for a more adult audience Torchwood launched with 2 4 million viewers in October 2006 58 Torchwood is the first science fiction programme ever to have been commissioned by the channel and its popularity led to it being broadcast on BBC Two for the second series and on BBC One for subsequent series In 2010 BBC Three began airing episodes of the fifth series of BBC drama series Waterloo Road after they had aired on BBC One as part of its catch up programming From January 2015 BBC Three aired the remaining episodes of Waterloo Road before being repeated on BBC One later the same day 59 Among its original programming the channel also gave viewers the comedy drama Pramface which was written by Chris Reddy and comprised 19 episodes over three series broadcast between 2012 and 2014 Documentaries Edit BBC Three also aired several youth focused documentaries including the BAFTA winning Our War Blood Sweat and T shirts as well as its subsequent sequels Life amp Death Row and a season of films focused on mental illness BBC Three also aired specialist factual documentaries such as How Drugs Work and How Sex Works Stacey Dooley since her appearance on Blood Sweat and T shirts in 2008 presented documentaries including Stacey Dooley in the USA 2012 14 Coming Here Soon 2012 The Natives This is our America 2017 Beaten by My Boyfriend 2015 Stacey Dooley in Cologne The Blame Game 2016 Sex in Strange Places 2016 Stacey Dooley Hate and Pride in Orlando 2016 Stacey Dooley on the Frontline Girls Guns and Isis 2016 Brainwashing Stacey 2016 Stacey Dooley Face to Face with Isis 2018 and several other titles under the umbrella title Stacey Dooley Investigates 2009 present 60 61 BBC Three also commissions a number of one off documentaries including Growing Up Down s 2014 My Brother the Islamist 2011 Small Teen Big World 2010 Stormchaser The Butterfly and the Tornado 2012 and The Autistic Me 2009 Many were commissioned through BBC Three s FRESH scheme which provided an opportunity for the next generation of directors to make their first 60 minute documentaries for the channel 62 In July 2022 63 a number of documentaries from the regional We Are England strand featuring celebrities such as Bimini 64 65 Jayde Adams 66 67 and Jassa Ahluwalia 68 69 were repeated on BBC Three alongside a number of similarly formatted 30 minute documentaries now made to get a premiere showing on BBC Three However rather than being grouped under a master brand like BBC One s We Are England or Our Lives 70 71 programmes these new documentaries are now just being listed under one off titles such as Filthy Business 72 73 and Queen of Trucks 74 75 on the BBC iPlayer and in programme guides News and sport Edit In its original incarnation BBC Three featured 60 Seconds an hourly summary of news sport and entertainment headlines They were presented in a relaxed style in keeping with the rest of the channel As part of the BBC s discussions with the government regarding the founding of the channel a longer news programme had been promised to provide a daily section of news and current affairs The News Show as it came to be called upon launch was later rebranded The 7 O Clock News However the BBC discontinued the bulletin in 2005 following a recommendation made in the 2004 Barwise Report which found that the channel s target audience sought news from elsewhere 76 Upon the 2022 relaunch of BBC Three a new summary of news sport and entertainment was launched under the name The Catch Up The channel has also shown sports programming Match of the Day Live broadcast international football matches featuring Wales often when an England match was being shown on BBC One The channel also showed some matches of England s Women s team The 2002 2004 2006 and 2008 Africa Cup of Nations tournaments were shown on the channel while it is scheduled to air the semi finals and final of the 2021 edition 77 List of series Edit General comedy Edit Brain Candy 2003 2004 The Stupid Version 2004 Three s Outtakes 2005 2010 Welcome To My World Funny Business 2006 Conning The Conmen 2007 It s Adam and Shelley 2007 Two Pints of Lager The Outtakes 2008 2011 The Wall 2008 Russell Howard s Good News 2009 2013 Special 1 TV 2010 2011 World s Craziest Fools 2011 2013 The Pranker 2011 World Series of Dating 2012 Unzipped 2012 BBC Comedy Feeds 2012 2015 Impractical Jokers UK 2012 2014 People Just Do Nothing 2014 2015 One off comedy pilots specials Edit Sort It Out Man 2003 The Bunk Bed Boys 2004 Sweet and Sour 2004 From Bard to Verse 2004 Killing Time 2004 Hurrah for Cancer 2004 AD BC A Rock Opera 2004 10 96 Training Night 2005 Marigold 2005 Cubby Couch 2006 Bash 2007 Living With Two People You Like Individually But Not As A Couple 2007 Under One Roof 2007 Green 2007 Moonmonkeys 2007 Be More Ethnic 2007 Biffovision 2007 Splitting Cells 2007 Placebo 2008 Delta Forever 2008 Torn Up Tales 2008 Barely Legal 2008 MeeBOX 2008 LifeSpam My Child Is French 2009 Ketch And HIRO PON Get It On 2009 Vidiotic 2009 Things Talk 2009 Brave Young Men 2009 Mark s Brilliant Blog 2009 May Contain Nuts 2009 The Site 2009 Above Their Station 2010 This Is Jinsy 2010 Laughter Shock 2010 Stanley Park 2010 Dappers 2010 The Inn Mates 2010 The Klang Show 2010 The Adventures Of Daniel 2010 D O A 2010 Chris Moyles Comedy Empire 2012 The Comedy Marathon Spectacular 2012 An Idiot s Guide To Politics 2015 The Totally Senseless Gameshow 2015 Sketch comedy Edit 3 Non Blondes 2003 Monkey Dust 2003 2005 Little Britain 2003 2004 The Comic Side of 7 Days 2005 High Spirits with Shirley Ghostman 2005 Tittybangbang 2005 2007 Man Stroke Woman 2005 2007 The Message 2006 Touch Me I m Karen Taylor 2006 2008 Little Miss Jocelyn 2006 Comedy Shuffle 2007 Rush Hour 2007 Marc Wootton Exposed 2008 Scallywagga 2008 2010 The Wrong Door 2008 Horne amp Corden 2009 La La Land 2010 Lee Nelson s Well Good Show 2010 2011 Wu How The Ninja How To Guide 2010 One Non Blonde Down Under 2010 The Revolution Will Be Televised 2012 2015 Lee Nelson s Well Funny People 2013 Boom Town 2013 Lazy Susan 2022 present Comedy gameshow Edit Celebdaq 2003 HeadJam 2004 Stars in Fast Cars 2005 2006 Rob Brydon s Annually Retentive 2006 2007 The King is Dead 2010 24 Hour Panel People 2011 Sweat the Small Stuff 2013 2015 Sitcom Edit Swiss Toni 2003 2004 Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps 2003 2011 Grass 2003 Nighty Night 2004 15 Storeys High 2004 Catterick 2004 Cyderdelic 2004 Coupling 2004 The Mighty Boosh 2004 2007 The Smoking Room 2004 2005 My Life In Film 2004 Ideal 2005 2011 I m with Stupid 2005 2006 Snuff Box 2006 Grownups 2006 2009 Live Girls present Dogtown 2006 Pulling 2006 2009 Thieves Like Us 2007 Gavin amp Stacey 2007 2008 2022 Coming of Age 2007 2011 The Visit 2007 How Not to Live Your Life 2007 2011 Lunch Monkeys 2008 2011 Trexx and Flipside 2008 Massive 2008 Clone 2008 Off the Hook 2009 We Are Klang 2009 The Gemma Factor 2010 Mongrels 2010 2011 Him amp Her 2010 2013 White Van Man 2011 2012 Pramface 2012 2014 Dead Boss 2012 Bad Education 2012 2014 Cuckoo 2012 2014 2022 Some Girls 2012 2014 Way to Go 2013 Bluestone 42 2013 Badults 2013 2014 Uncle 2014 2015 Siblings 2014 2016 Crims 2015 Murder in Successville 2015 Top Coppers 2015 Fried 2015 Together 2015 Josh 2015 Peacock 2022 present PRU 2022 present Comedy drama Edit Grease Monkeys 2003 2004 Spine Chillers 2003 Outlaws 2004 Twisted Tales 2005 Casanova 2005 Funland 2005 Drop Dead Gorgeous 2006 2007 Sinchronicity 2006 Phoo Action 2008 Being Human 2008 2013 The Last Word Monologues 2008 Personal Affairs 2009 Mouth to Mouth 2009 Becoming Human 2011 Wreck 2022 present Live music and stand up comedy Edit Paul and Pauline Calf s Cheese and Ham Sandwich 2003 Glastonbury Festival 2003 2015 The Fast Show Farewell Tour 2003 Eurovision Song Contest 2004 2015 2022 28 Acts in 28 Minutes 2005 MOBO Awards 2006 2013 The Mighty Boosh Live 2008 Russell Howard Live 2009 Edinburgh Comedy Fest Live 2010 2014 Russell Howard Live Dingledodies 2010 Three TheFringe 2011 Simon Amstell Do Nothing Live 2011 Stand Up For Sport Relief 2012 Live at the Electric 2012 2014 Chris Ramsey s Comedy Fringe 2012 Greg Davies Live Firing Cheeseballs At A Dog 2012 Russell Howard Right Here Right Now 2012 Russell Kane Smokescreens amp Castles 2012 Lee Nelson Live 2013 Seann Walsh s Late Night Comedy Spectacular 2013 2014 Kevin Bridges The Story Continues 2013 Jack Whitehall Live 2013 Nick Helm s Heavy Entertainment 2015 Drama Edit Burn It 2003 Bodies 2004 2006 Conviction 2004 Torchwood 2006 West 10 LDN 2008 Dis Connected 2008 Spooks Code 9 2008 Personal Affairs 2009 Lip Service 2010 2012 Frankenstein s Wedding 2011 The Fades 2011 In the Flesh 2013 2014 Orphan Black 2013 2015 Murdered by My Boyfriend 2014 Our World War 2014 Waterloo Road 2015 Tatau 2015 Red Rose 2022 Mood 2022 present Life and Death in the Warehouse 2022 present Documentary Edit Appleton On Appleton 2003 Dreamspaces 2003 2004 Liquid Assets 2003 2004 Fatboy Slim Musical Hooligan 2003 Body Hits 2003 Posh amp Becks Big Impression Behind the Scenes amp Extra Bits 2003 Mind Body amp Kick Ass Moves 2004 Destination Three 2005 Spendaholics 2005 2008 Doctor Who Confidential 2005 2011 Generation Jedi 2005 Forty Years of F 2005 Kick Ass Miracles 2005 F Off I m Fat 2006 Japanorama 2006 2007 The Indestructibles 2006 Torchwood Declassified 2006 Most Annoying People 2006 2011 Freaky Eaters 2007 2009 Body Image 2007 Castaway The Last 24 Hours and Castaway Exposed 2007 Kick Ass in a Crisis 2007 The Bulls t Detective 2007 Say No to the Knife 2007 Pranks Galore 2007 The Most Annoying TV We Hate to Love 2007 The Most Annoying Pop Songs We Hate To Love 2007 Find Me the Face 2008 The Mighty Boosh A Journey Through Time and Space 2008 Blood Sweat and T shirts 2008 Alesha Look But Don t Touch 2008 The Most Annoying Couples We Love to Hate 2008 Gavin and Stacey 12 Days of Christmas 2008 Two Pints Fags Lads and Kebabs 2009 Comic Relief s Naughty Bits 2009 Two Pints The Love Triangle 2009 Blood Sweat and Takeaways 2010 The Autistic Me 2009 Stacey Dooley Investigates 2009 2015 My Life as an Animal 2009 Great Movie Mistakes 2010 2012 Blood Sweat and Luxuries 2010 Small Teen Big World 2010 Great TV Mistakes 2010 Sun Sex and Suspicious Parents 2011 2015 Pop s Greatest Dance Crazes 2011 My Brother the Islamist 2011 Stormchaser The Butterfly and the Tornado 2011 Stacey Dooley in the USA 2012 14 Coming Here Soon 2012 Unsafe Sex in the City 2012 Websex What s the Harm 2012 People Like Us 2013 2014 Hotel of Mum and Dad 2013 2014 Cherry Healey Old Before My Time 2013 Doctor Who Greatest Monsters amp Villains 2013 Tough Young Teachers 2014 Growing Up Down s 2014 Junior Paramedics 2014 Life and Death Row 2014 Invasion of the Job Snatchers 2014 My Brother the Terrorist 2014 Tyger Takes On 2014 2015 Excluded Kicked Out of School 2015 Bangkok Airport 2015 Beaten by my Boyfriend 2015 Traffic Cops 2016 Sex in Strange Places 2016 We Are England 2022 Chat show Edit This Is Dom Joly 2003 The Graham Norton Effect 2005 Lily Allen and Friends 2008 Comic Relief s Big Chat With Graham Norton 2013 Backchat with Jack Whitehall and His Dad 2013 2014 Staying In With Greg amp Russell 2013 Repeats Edit The Murder Game 2003 Angry Kid 2003 Absolutely Fabulous series 5 2003 EastEnders 2003 2016 2022 Spooks 2003 2009 Doctor Who 2005 2016 Top Gear 2006 2016 2022 That Mitchell and Webb Look 2006 2010 Giving You Everything 2008 Wallace and Gromit s Cracking Contraptions 2008 2009 The Voice UK 2012 2015 Live at the Apollo 2015 2016 Fleabag 2022 present This Country 2022 present Killing Eve 2022 present Back to Life 2022 present Unscripted and reality Edit The 7 O Clock News 2003 2005 Re covered 2003 Liquid News 2003 2004 The Bachelor 2003 2005 60 Seconds 2003 2016 Little Angels 2004 2006 Slam Poets 2004 The House of Tiny Tearaways 2005 2007 The Real Hustle 2006 2012 Anthea Turner Perfect Housewife 2006 2007 The Apprentice You re Fired 2006 Celebrity Scissorhands 2006 2008 The Baby Borrowers 2007 Kill It Cook It Eat It 2007 2010 Comic Relief Does Fame Academy 2007 Last Man Standing 2007 2008 Don t Tell the Bride 2007 2014 Bizarre ER 2008 2011 Snog Marry Avoid 2008 2013 Britain s Missing Top Model 2008 Make My Body Younger 2008 2009 The World s Strictest Parents 2008 2011 Undercover Princes 2009 Young Dumb and Living Off Mum 2009 2011 Freak Like Me 2010 I Believe in UFOs Danny Dyer 2010 Hotter Than My Daughter 2010 2011 Dancing on Wheels 2010 Nicola Roberts The Truth About Tanning 2010 Undercover Princesses 2010 Are You Fitter Than a Pensioner 2010 Junior Doctors Your Life in Their Hands 2011 2013 The Call Centre 2013 2014 Sexy Beasts 2014 Hair 2014 Killer Magic 2014 2015 Life Is Toff 2014 South Side Story 2015 I Survived a Zombie Apocalypse 2015 Asian Provocateur 2015 RuPaul s Drag Race UK vs the World 2022 present The Catch Up 2022 present The Fast and the Farmer ish 2022 present Hungry For It 2022 present The Drop 2022 present Gassed Up 2022 present Love In The Flesh 2022 present Imports Edit American Dad 2007 2016 Family Guy 2006 2016 Jonah From Tonga 2014 Devin 2010 Ghosts airing as Ghosts US 2022 present Top Gear airing as Top Gear America 2023 present Most watched programmes Edit The following is a list of the ten most watched broadcasts on BBC3 since launch based on Live 7 data supplied by BARB 78 Number of viewers does not include repeats Rank Programme Viewers Date1 EastEnders Live The Aftermath 4 537 000 19 February 20102 Olympics 2012 4 289 000 11 August 20123 2 771 000 1 August 20124 Torchwood 2 510 000 22 October 20065 2 498 0006 Olympics 2012 2 368 000 29 July 20127 EastEnders Backstage Live 2 257 000 20 February 20158 Olympics 2012 2 162 000 4 August 20129 Match of the Day Live 2 069 000 26 June 201310 Weakest Link EastEnders Special 2 005 000 19 February 2010Presentation Edit One of the former Blobs between 2003 and 2008 The Discovery package was in action between October 2013 and January 2016 prior to the channel s online move The channel s original idents were conceived by Stefan Marjoram at Aardman Animations and were used from launch until February 2008 Stuart Murphy was touring Aardman Animations looking for new programming ideas for BBC Three when he spotted the cone shaped creatures he then took the idea back to the Lambie Nairn agency responsible for the BBC Three identity package 79 A feature of this identity is also the music Three Is The Magic Number based only the lyrics are copied upon Schoolhouse Rock BBC Online provided a number of downloads and activities based on the channel s identity these included BlobMate screensavers wallpapers and also games such as BlobLander and BlobBert The idea used by both Lambie Nairn who had developed the branding for CBeebies and CBBC and Aardman was to create the BBC Three blobs as a relation to the green and yellow blobs of the children s channels Kieron Elliott Lola Buckley Gavin Inskip and Jen Long provided out of vision continuity On 22 January 2008 a new channel identity was unveiled Rebranding was carried out by Red Bee Media along with agencies MPG and Agency Republic with music and sound design by creative audio company Koink 80 In October 2013 BBC Three introduced a new series of idents with a theme of discovery Designed by Claire Powell at Red Bee Media the idents utilised projection mapping effects 81 The soundtrack for the idents was composed by Chris Branch and Tom Haines at Brains amp Hunch 82 On 4 January 2016 alongside the announcement of the date for BBC Three s relaunch as an online only service a third logo was unveiled Inspired by the iconography of mobile applications the new logo incorporated the Roman numeral for the number 3 with the third bar replaced by an exclamation mark Marketing head Nikki Carr explained that the three bars represented the three principles of BBC Three as a service making viewers think laugh and have a voice 83 The tricon was used as the service s primary logo until 2020 when a more conventional logo box was adopted connecting and modifying the T and H in Three to resemble the tricon emblem In October 2021 this wordmark was replaced with one in the BBC s corporate font Reith Sans as part of a larger rebranding of the BBC s television channels The tricon remained in use as a secondary logo such as in an ident used to present BBC Three programmes on BBC One after the rebrand The rebrand in 2021 proved to be short lived as with the service s linear relaunch in February 2022 BBC Three adopted a new identity developed by Superunion and BBC Creative with idents featuring three animated pink and purple coloured hands named Captain Spider and Pointer interacting in a lime green backdrop The channel s presentation features the hands irreverently observing what s going on in popular culture and young people s lives 84 Awards EditThe channel has had critical and popular successes Most recently it won Broadcast Magazine s Digital Channel of the Year Award for Best General Entertainment Channel 85 and MGEITF Non Terrestrial Channel of the Year It won more awards in its eleven year broadcast history than its commercial rivals Sky 1 Sky Living E4 ITV2 Channel 5 and Comedy Central have won in their combined 25 year history In total BBC Three has won 7 BAFTA awards 5 British Comedy Awards 15 Royal Television Society Awards and 5 Rose d Or Awards since the channel was launched in February 2003 In 2008 BBC Three s Gavin amp Stacey won the BAFTA audience award and the best comedy performance award was awarded to James Corden for his part 86 Criticism EditThe channel came in for criticism from several corners the most prominent of which came from some of the BBC s long standing presenters These included John Humphrys who argued that BBC Three and BBC Four should be shut down in the face of budget cuts to BBC Radio 4 s Today programme which he presents as well as Jeremy Paxman 87 88 In July 2010 a UK music magazine printed a letter from the pressure group Friends of Radio 3 that criticised BBC Three for having comedies game shows films and documentaries but no arts programming at all 89 In a later issue another correspondent endorsed this assessment on the basis of a search through issues of the Radio Times and cast doubt on the BBC s claim in the document Performance Against Public Commitments 2009 10 that the channel broadcast 54 hours of new music and arts programming in that year 90 Two months later the same correspondent wrote in to inform readers that the BBC had refused his Freedom of Information request concerning the titles of the programmes used in calculating the 54 hours total 91 Notes Edit 1080p25 sometimes only on FreeviewReferences Edit a b c BBC Three Service Licence PDF BBC Trust September 2013 Archived PDF from the original on 22 February 2014 Retrieved 16 November 2013 T Minus Three weeks until BBC Three is on TV Media 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