#18

Having said that I did watch a pretty excellent show on James Joyce made by Angelica Houston of all people just last night so I guess I will miss it not being at the press of a button.

#19

She starred in her dad’s adaptation of The Dead so is probably a Joyce fan.

On your first point, I don’t really understand why they’d do away with BBC4 altogether, like you said, BBC3 was cut as a channel but exists as a brand, why not just do that.

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#20

Yeah, like all those times they try to have a big saturday night game show that is ridiculously over budget and also fucking appalling

That one with the rabbit for eg

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#21

(And bbc3 got a loooooot better after that tbf)

#22

Could even show some late nights on 2 in a similar way they do with 3 on 1 atm
Probably will tbh would be nonsense not to

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#23

Remember the beeb have done this kind of “oh yeah we might kill it off, soz” thing before with 6Music and there was an equally huge outcry and they kept it, and now it’s doing better than ever. Part of me wonders if leaking stuff like this is just testing the water to see public reaction. The story seems to come up every few years for BBC4 (there’s an Torygraph article here from six years ago, for instance) but it never happens.

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#24

tbf this is exactly what happened to bbc3 after they went iplayer-only. no more shitty reality stuff or hellscape sitcoms to pad out the schedule

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#25

oh i thought thats what they were doing

#26

What was that AWFUL BBC3 sitcom about university that started around 2009?

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#27

Coming Of Age?

the writer’s moved on to being a full-time walloper on twitter nowadays

#28

Hahaha, that was piss

#29

Or a fucking chat show based around a woefully unfunny shitcom that makes me want to gnaw my arm off. YES MRS BROWN’S BOYS I AM TALKING ABOUT YOU

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#30

That coincided with my uni years and I remember being unreasonably vitriolic about it. The writer becoming an right wing prick is such a satisfying development ngl

#31

Nah, I think it was this:

#32

Embarrassingly I think I remember guiltily enjoying bits of this one

#33

looks like a real hoot

#34

What is it about sitcom writers and being Twitter’s HQ of chuds

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#35

Genuinely never heard of this. Looked it up on YouTube and surprised to see Lynn as the mum.

#36

This rumour was started by the Torygraph, which is hardly a friend of the BBC, so let’s not shit the bed just yet.

#37

Here’s the petition…