BBC Three makes its second coming this evening as the channel restores the linear broadcasts lost in 2016.
At the time, the BBC was like today under pressure to reduce its expenditure, and it was thought that a channel targeting a younger audience would be able to make its way online. However, unable to cut through other streamed offerings, and seeing success for BBC Three commissioned shows on other networks the channel is returning to Freeview, Freesat, Sky and Virgin Media.
“I want BBC Three to look and sound different to anywhere else and I?want to shout the loudest in every way we can that the BBC is there for you no matter where you are from and who you are,” says Fiona Campbell, Controller, BBC Three.
The brief is to offer more entertainment, competitions, documentaries, dramas, comedies, films and sport to the 16 million 16- to 34-year-olds who live in the UK.
New commissions include People Just Do Nothing’s Allan ‘Seapa’ Mustafa, reuniting with BBC Three for Peacock, a new gym-based comedy series about toxic masculinity, and new factual-based drama Life and Death in the Warehouse from the makers of Killed By My Debt will explore life in a fictional distribution centre.
Having experimented with various formats in its previous incarnation, BBC Three’s news bulletin The Catch Up is a weeknight bulletin that brings audiences all the need to know and relevant news from the day in under 5 minutes.
Produced by BBC News, the show’s aim is to help young people make sense of the world around them and also highlights optimistic stories.
BBC goes live at 7pm.
