Talk:BBC Three

Top Ten Most watched programmes

Under viewership I have added the top ten most watched programmes on BBC3 from the figures available from the BARB (back to 2005) in order to match up with similar tables in the ITV2 and E4 articles.--Hammard (talk) 21:33, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

I dunno if this helps but I read on a poster there that some program for BBC Three is being made at MetroCentre (shopping centre). Can someone clarify the name? I was more focused on getting to HMV and getting a free Large Popcorn (O2 Priority moments offer) stores than memorizing the name of a series being made there. MIVP - (Can I Help? ◕‿◕) (Maybe a bit of tea for thought?) 22:16, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

According to BARB, Family Guy and American Dad are the top two programmes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.123.96.0 (talk) 20:24, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

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Logo dispute

From what I can tell, the logo was unveiled before the channel moved online ([1]). EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 20:11, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

I don't mind what logo goes here, but I like the idea of this article having the 2008-2016 logo, since it was the channel's longest serving logo for around 8 years. -- AxG / ✉ / 10 years of editing 23:44, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

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Merge?

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

No consensus to merge + point of confusion (the "online" disambiguation) clarified and renamed X201 (talk) 07:19, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

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I see no need for BBC Three (online) to be separate from BBC Three, especially with the upcoming linear re-launch of the channel. BBC Three (online) looks like a dreadful and unneccessary article - more than half the content is about the BBC proposal, the linear closure/online launch and the statistics of viewers since the linear closure, rather than actually about the BBC Three online channel and its content. Not to mention it is severely outdated. Probably one of the worst pages on wiki I've come across. No need for it to exist, it should merge to BBC Three. --Jf81 (talk) 15:25, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose: Fundamentally different service that shares the same name. It has a different history, and if you have any suggestions on how it can be improved, why not focus on actually making those improvements rather than effectively calling for deletion? ViperSnake151  Talk  16:22, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
  • @ViperSnake151: I have taken a look and there isn't anything to improve, it's a dead end, and any "improvements" would basically be stripping down the article. --Jf81 (talk) 12:58, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
• Merge: BBC Three is one service, regardless of which platforms it's on. Same as any other channel that is broadcast and on-demand. What other channels have separate articles for their online output vs their broadcast output? Walt111 (talk) 16:34, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose: As User:ViperSnake151 says, it is a fundamentally different service, broadcast exclusively online, and therefore has a different history with different output. As ViperSnake says, to merge the two would effectively end up with one of them being deleted. Rillington (talk) 14:20, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose: These are distinct, different phases in the history of different services that are called BBC3. The name may be the same, but the legal entity behind them is different. One is a broadcast TV channel that ran until 2016, the other is an on-demand service that ran from 2016. Perhaps the "online" disambiguation may be confusing people? but these articles cover different entities and need to be separate. - X201 (talk) 14:59, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
  • @X201: Yes the ambiguous "online" is what caused confusion, which is now renamed. --Jf81 (talk) 12:58, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose: I agree with ViperSnake. If you’re going to complain so much about the poor quality of an article, than actually improve it. End of story Dannycreatire (talk) 17:29, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
  • @Dannycreatire: I would never jump to this stage without looking to improve first. I have taken a look and there isn't anything to improve, it's a dead end, and any "improvements" would basically be stripping down the article. --Jf81 (talk) 12:58, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
• Merge: :but BBC Three is not really a separate 'British over-the-top Internet television service' operated like a 'teen UKTV Play' by the BBC, its more of an area/section on the iPlayer, so if there is a separate article called BBC Three (streaming service), maybe articles called BBC One (streaming service), BBC Two (streaming service), BBC Four (streaming service) etc. need to be created as well?... (I suppose there could also be an argument for the BBC Three (streaming service) article to be merged with that of the BBC iPlayer rather than this one).— Preceding unsigned comment added by ‎ 81.152.236.198 (talk • contribs) 17:27, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

BBC Three was a separate service. The point of the separate articles is that BBC Three has had three different phases to it's life that do not easily mesh together in the same article. - X201 (talk) 15:05, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

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Question about the logo

Someone replacing the BBC Three (former channel) logo with this:

instead this:

I know that due to corporate rebrand of the BBC, the new BBC Three logo was unveiled at BBC One block, where many assuming that the logo will be used once BBC Three returns to TV in 2022. Should English Wikipedia replacing that logo with the new ones? Because i found that in Wikipedia in other languages, despite it was a former channel, a new logo for BBC Three was attached instead of old and so indistinguishable than online service and maybe future channel. 36.77.94.37 (talk) 05:09, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

We currently have two BBC Three articles covering distinct phases in the channel's history. Phase 1, (this article) as a broadcast channel from 2003 - 2016 and phase 2 as an online content brand (2016 - 2022). It would be wrong to add the new logo to this article, because it has historic content that ends in 2016 and has no connection to the new logo. The same goes for the period as a content brand article (2016 - 2022) That is not connected to the BBC Three that we'll see in 2022.

We are talking about very distinct phases in the channel's history (three specific forks in Wiki terminology), there needs to be a BBC Three 2022 article, because shoehorning new BBC Three information into either of the others is the wrong course of action. - X201 (talk) 07:53, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Article Title?

This is not a formal proposal just yet. I'm gathering opinions and ideas so that we can get the BBC Three articles in a position that keeps the historic and future incarnations of it in a coherent order.

Seeing as this article covers a period that ends in 2016 and that the streaming article covers the 2016 - 2022 period and also that the 2022 version of BBC Three looks like a given. I think renaming this article and the streaming article would bring a lot of clarity to things. I'm thinking along the following lines:

• Rename BBC Three (this article) to BBC Three (2003 - 2016)
• Rename BBC Three (streaming service) to BBC Three (2016 - 2022)
• Make a new BBC Three to either cover the 2022 incarnation or as a disambiguation page.

All of the above is to bring clarity to the individual and distinct phases of the channel. Any opinions or alternative ideas? - X201 (talk) 10:59, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

• Leaning agree Because i found that despite defunct channel, many users adding the new 2021 logo that actually used in streaming service and future channel, assuming that the channel will return in 2022. 36.77.95.70 (talk) 21:48, 7 November 2021 (UTC)