is BBC allowed to have product placements on their shows?
newsnight, for example, gave "flappy bird" or whatever it was quite a boost no doubt last night
― ^ 諷刺 (ken c), Friday, 7 February 2014 13:57 (ten years ago) link
hopefully nobody was paid for it
― ^ 諷刺 (ken c), Friday, 7 February 2014 13:58 (ten years ago) link
there's also restaurant man. featuring some hotel in mhor scotland this week, and the pullman restaurant train last week. both times their web server went down straight after it was shown
― ^ 諷刺 (ken c), Friday, 7 February 2014 14:03 (ten years ago) link
i know because the other member of the household went straight on the website.. (same member who also downloaded that flappy bird game)
BBC things have facebook pages and twitter accounts and they talk about x-factor etc so I suppose anything goes.
― Eyeball Kicks, Saturday, 8 February 2014 06:14 (ten years ago) link
BBC3 looks certain to get the chop.
― eardrum buzz aldrin (NickB), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 15:54 (ten years ago) link
Good
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:01 (ten years ago) link
lol @ crass populism that isn't very popular
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link
Say what you really feel Tom. I'm slightly saddened cos it'll mean a loss of diversity to some extent (or at least the notion of it) and obviously it sucks for the people who work there, but otoh I don't think I've actually watched more than a minute of it in my life so *shrugs*
― eardrum buzz aldrin (NickB), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:06 (ten years ago) link
Complete waste of money
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:07 (ten years ago) link
They're giving it to Scotland as a leaving present.
― eardrum buzz aldrin (NickB), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
it'll mean a loss of diversity to some extent
On the contrary
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
Great for Being Human and festival coverage, not so great for American Dad/Family Guy ad infinitum. E4 is even worse, though.
― baked beings on toast (suzy), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:10 (ten years ago) link
(or at least the notion of it)
That's the nub I think. The idea of provideing diversity just by being a distinct channel would have carried more weight in the analogue days, but there are so many channels now that just existing doesn't add much in the way of diversity if you aren't providing something a bit different.
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:10 (ten years ago) link
providing
where am i gonna watch Family Guy now?
i'm aware that my reaction to BBC3 says a lot about my worse instincts tbh, but i'm not sure if Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents has added much of value to the culture.
the downside of this is quite possibly more dilution of BBC4 but
in an ideal world, i'm sure there shd be a place for everything, but i'm pretty sure the target audience for BBC3 is more or less exactly the demographic that watches least broadcast telly?
― landschlubber (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:10 (ten years ago) link
gonna be a lot of godawful stand-up comics and sitcom writers signing on, too
― landschlubber (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:12 (ten years ago) link
maybe broader, less middle-class-solipsist-scumbag question: is it possible to do Youth TV that doesn't pander?
― landschlubber (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:14 (ten years ago) link
E4's record in youth drama has been way better than BB3's over the past few years. But we're talking about a demographic that will, by and large, happily shift online with the channel anyway. Given the future of TV is mostly online anyway it might give the BBC more room to experiment here. Or it might just slowly wither on the vine.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
Its a shame this has been under 'cuts' rather than from 'this channel is awful, lets use the money more wisely'.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link
I'm a non-licence-payer who hasn't had a telly in years so take this with a pinch of salt but this channel is almost channel 4 bad
― Andreass Twerckmeister (wins), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link
Of all channels, this is one I'm happy to lose. It's remarkably, consistently, bad.
E4 shows TWO BROKE GIRLS and BROOKLYN NINE NINE both of which I like in different ways. E4 is miles better than BBC3 I'm afraid.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
xp
i'd be torn in a poll, for sure
― landschlubber (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
wtf @ Pinefox liking Two Broke Girls
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:39 (ten years ago) link
BBC3 maybe has less aggressive neo-libertarian or prurient medical docs than C4 tbf
― landschlubber (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
I mean this is probably the first of many cuts at the BBC and let's not lose sight of what the government's longer term agenda is.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
finally ran out of episodes of Two Pints.
― inside out trousers (dog latin), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link
I was going to until you said that but yeah let's not xp
― Andreass Twerckmeister (wins), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:42 (ten years ago) link
Can't say I watch it but smdh at all the crowing from CiF bbc4 stans about how the mindless cudchewers are getting what they deserve and it's some sort of victory for the intellegentsia
(My mistake for daring to peek at guardian comments obv)
― sktsh, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:44 (ten years ago) link
Didn't jack fucking dee's shitty curbon copy sitcom run for like 6 seasons on BBC4
― Andreass Twerckmeister (wins), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:47 (ten years ago) link
I'd be ok if they cut both BBC3 and BBC4 and that led for money being used to make better docs (which do require more money than just a roll-out of talking heads, 50 quid at a time) and funding the better comedy scripts.
Both of these could end up on BBC2.
Freeview is mostly crap
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:49 (ten years ago) link
i wish BBC4 wd put all the docs i'm too knackered or distracted to watch in the week on at the weekend instead of 48 hours of Whispering Bob Harris
― landschlubber (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
Last night I noticed a slot for a new channel: ITV4+1
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
ITV4 is okay - show a lot of movies and some of the less desired footie matches
― landschlubber (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:51 (ten years ago) link
Or itv5 as I will insist on calling it xp
― Andreass Twerckmeister (wins), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:51 (ten years ago) link
Been doing that for 10yrs not gonna stop now
― Andreass Twerckmeister (wins), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
ITV4 is fine but seriously do we need a +1 channel for it?
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
yes, as a Tottenham fan who sometimes works late I consider ITV4+1 a key channel.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
I want +1s and +2s for every channel coz I forget everything and coz I want to watch prime time after the kids are in bed and coz I've only got 80 hours on my V+ box and it's full of things I won't get round to watching.
― every time you sneer at "white boys with guitars" a Ramone dies (onimo), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
i don't mind using what i assume is cheap and plentiful capacity for the +1 channels cos sometimes they have a use - it's a weird niche use, sure, but like i assume many people i still have a download limit with my ISP that prohibits a move to all-streaming all-the-time just yet
― landschlubber (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
and there are also people like me who don't have that thing or a V+ box, just a TV
(I have this computer but I don't watch TV on it, assuming I could)
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 16:56 (ten years ago) link
ilx shows its age.
― tsrobodo, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
so the bbc channels will go 1, 2, 4 with a gap? annoying. it's bad enough that there's nothing on freeview channel 8.
― koogs, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link
lol i have Estuary, Grimsby's Number 1 TV station on Channel 8
― landschlubber (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 17:03 (ten years ago) link
I noticed a new channel 'coming soon' on 8.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 17:04 (ten years ago) link
http://www.estuary.tv/
― landschlubber (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 17:04 (ten years ago) link
whether 8 is gonna be assigned to various regional channels like this i don't know
yeah its a slot for some local thing. yay freeview.
as a fan of awfulness even i struggle to watch more than 2 or 3 mins at a time
― landschlubber (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 17:05 (ten years ago) link
so the bbc channels will go 1, 2, 4 with a gap?
Argh, nooooo. If there is no other reason to save BBC3, this is good enough. IT WILL DRIVE ME MAD.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 17:06 (ten years ago) link