28-04-2022, 10:00 AM
(28-04-2022, 02:49 AM)telebox2001 Wrote: Of course, Two's real problem IMHO is Three and Four have taken away significant chunks of their traditional "alternative" remit, and as a result has diminished the amount of new material available to air on the network.
Yep, BBC Two is basically a husk - everything that it used to do was taken away from it, leaving just a few factual and general entertainment programmes that wouldn't fit on BBC One. It lost young adults to BBC Three; lost arts and had to share factual with BBC Four (with that content not reabsorbed by Two now Four is archive only); Children's, that took up most of its morning schedule, was taken off terrestrial; Schools and Learning Zone were axed entirely; the late-night parliamentary review was shifted to BBC Parliament, then axed. Then you've got BBC One lifting not just any of its successful programmes, but becoming the first broadcast slot for basically all daytime programming (even Flog It!, the last big daytime brand that was really BBC Two's, has been axed).
Don't get me wrong, there is still good stuff on BBC Two, but it's just not enough to be a channel by itself. Merging Two and News would be a radical solution, but merging Two and Four wouldn't be - a lot of the archive programming could move to daytimes - you could have Archive Afternoons. If BBC Two is going to be a partially 'archive' channel, it might as well be popular archive material rather than just repeats of BBC One daytime programming.