BBC3 or 4 to close?

Supposedly BBC4 is still under threat still according to an article in one of the papers [haven't read it yet; the S.O. brought it with him this afternoon].

Hope we will continue to get the Scandi and other European dramas that make Saturday evening viewing just about bearable.

As it's very much a young persons channel internet only isn't too bad, but I still hope they get funding for new comedy shows. Years ago I used to be terrified that the quaity of British television would be reduced to what I'd heard about American tv.

That was my reaction too, [mollie].

It looks like BBC 3 is going internet-only. Phew! Glad it's not BBC4 but internet-only is better than shut down completely.

They do here, I get them through my cable company and i assure you we get the bedtime story at 20.00 then BBC4 begins.

But not on the same channels.

19.00 in the UK

The childrens programmes finish at 20.00 when 3 and 4 take over for adults.

Yes, now that the whole country is (allegedly) digitised, they have all children's programmes on those two dedicated channels.

Hi, I thought all children programmes are now on CBeebies or CBBC for older children felice? I read somewhere the changes were having to be made to fill the hole in the pension pot.

Then where would they put the childrens programmes, they moved all of them to 3 and 4, I would be lost without Justin Fletcher and Balamory.

BBC4

Which one is Montalbano on? That is the one I would vote to keep!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HengPojNgbM
by the way if anyone watched the animals sleeping programme they mentioned about sperm whales sleeping and said it had only recently been discovered; but I have it on video from years back. Given that I've got boxes and boxes of videos I wouldn't know where to find it but here it is [hopefully] on utube. I was amazed when I saw it for the first time.

The only show I would have watched on BBC2 tonight would have been The Culture Show but it coincided with the BBC4 programme about animals sleep patterns which was on at the same time [I've been looking forward to that programme all day]. I'll watch the Culture Show on iplayer. And catch up with the programme about architecture on BBC4 early tomorrow morning. I mean, how can they drop a programe that shows Priscilla the octopus opening a jar to get her dinner ?

We watch BBC 4 much more than the other channels. 1 has been quite dumbed down and 3 always was dumb.

I would axe BBC 3. I've never watched it. I would hate to lose 2 or 4. Come to think of it I very rarely watch BBC1 either!

(in reply to merlot, not you, Culag!)

Oh, that's all right then. Panic over!

Radio 6 music is a DAB channel only I think.
Cerys Mathews on a Sunday morning has a very eclectic mix of music. I listen to it instead of The Archers!

It's in the Daily Mail so it must be true!

Radio 6 is new to me. What sort of programmes do they have ? Can't find it in my local newspaper.

It was on the AOL news bit when I turned on the pooter. Thank goodness I hadn't started listening to R6 when they tried to shut it down; I'd be devastated now if they did. R6 and BBC4 are my favourite things [along with Channel 4 Racing]. Crikey; I don't ask for much in life but, in a week when they shut down our village surgery and then our Post Office is threatened with closure, BBC4 would be the final straw . Heaven forbid that Gransnet is ever under threat!

Where did you come across the rumors Tegan ?

When the Beeb were considering closing down Radio 6 Music, there was such an uproar that they reconsidered it.