29-01-2022, 10:14 PM
I think the difference is it's easier for BBC2 to pick up the slack, especially now so little is commissioned. Yes, there is the odd higher brow documentary which might be a struggle, but the only other thing which seems to register is the Friday night music nights, but BBC2 have begun doing their own now on Saturdays and the TOTP repeats would be no more out of place at 7/8pm on a Saturday night on BBC2 than a Dads Army repeat is.
That's said I think it could continue to run at a relatively low cost and they should perhaps hold out to see how the political situation develops over the next couple of years and it would be messy to see another BBC3 situation where it's axed and revived just a few years later. If it did go though it's space shouldn't remain dormant - perhaps the idea of BBC1+1 might be revived for the evenings, and then the red screen of death (which is more pink nowadays) can have a stay of execution.
That's said I think it could continue to run at a relatively low cost and they should perhaps hold out to see how the political situation develops over the next couple of years and it would be messy to see another BBC3 situation where it's axed and revived just a few years later. If it did go though it's space shouldn't remain dormant - perhaps the idea of BBC1+1 might be revived for the evenings, and then the red screen of death (which is more pink nowadays) can have a stay of execution.
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