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Pete · Wed 05 Mar, 2014 18.46

I notice the most important thing about the potential closure of BBC3 is "BBC4 will HAVE to rebrand"

Fucking cretins.

scottishtv · Wed 05 Mar, 2014 21.32

The 'Fantasy Director-General' game being played in the BBC Three thread is cringey in the extreme.

wells · Thu 06 Mar, 2014 00.50

scottishtv wrote:The 'Fantasy Director-General' game being played in the BBC Three thread is cringey in the extreme.

I hate people posting fantasy schedules as much as anyone, but I don't think people explaining what they think should be dropped and what should remain is something to get annoyed with, it's exactly the discussion that should be happening given the circumstances.

all new Phil · Thu 06 Mar, 2014 02.07

I agree - it's certainly an interesting time ahead. Naturally the whole question of what to do with the remaining services will be thrown up, as the closure of BBC3 will impact on the remits of 1, 2 and 4.

Whataday · Thu 06 Mar, 2014 14.13

What's annoyed me more is the poor moderation happening of late.

There was already an existing "Should they scrap BBC 3/4?" thread that had been inactive for weeks, then news broke of the possibility of BBC 3 going so someone created a new thread. Charlie Wells then closed the new thread and said to post in the old thread, completely interrupting quite an engaging debate. So the debate then started again on the old thread and now they've closed that and said we should be discussing it in a new thread, again breaking up the debate.

Is it just me?

AJ · Thu 06 Mar, 2014 14.24

Whataday wrote:What's annoyed me more is the poor moderation happening of late.

There was already an existing "Should they scrap BBC 3/4?" thread that had been inactive for weeks, then news broke of the possibility of BBC 3 going so someone created a new thread. Charlie Wells then closed the new thread and said to post in the old thread, completely interrupting quite an engaging debate. So the debate then started again on the old thread and now they've closed that and said we should be discussing it in a new thread, again breaking up the debate.

Is it just me?

Completely agree. Not really sure why they've gone and split the thread in to a new one when the old one we were told to post in was sufficient.

robschneider · Thu 06 Mar, 2014 16.42

Whataday wrote:What's annoyed me more is the poor moderation happening of late.

There was already an existing "Should they scrap BBC 3/4?" thread that had been inactive for weeks, then news broke of the possibility of BBC 3 going so someone created a new thread. Charlie Wells then closed the new thread and said to post in the old thread, completely interrupting quite an engaging debate. So the debate then started again on the old thread and now they've closed that and said we should be discussing it in a new thread, again breaking up the debate.

Is it just me?

No. It's confused the hell out of me!

barcode · Thu 06 Mar, 2014 17.48

Why didn't there just spilt the old thread where rob postage the news with the new thread?

I think we'll all confused now, how to deal with it.

Jonny · Fri 07 Mar, 2014 10.37

jamesrl wrote:"Been out of things". Has he been sleeping for the last two months missing the speculation and then press releases?!

"Has he *not* been browsing TVF day and night :0 ?!"

http://www.tvforum.co.uk/forums/post906009#post-906009

Pete · Sun 09 Mar, 2014 11.05

MatthewFirth wrote:Well I think the BBC are gonna overhaul one or two things in the wake of BBC Three's closure. CBBC would and should get an extra hour's broadcasting during it's day.

The main thing for BBC now is to have new idents for all it's stations and to find timeslots for BBC Three's important shows.

Well I'm glad that's sorted.

WillPS · Sun 09 Mar, 2014 14.17

http://www.tvforum.co.uk/forums/post906298#post-906298

Hardly Dave's most subtle joke, and still it flies over Worzel.