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Television

If BBC3 was allowed to keep its hits, perhaps it wouldn't be getting booted online

What the channel has to offer in its last days on Freeview

15 March 2014

9:00 AM

15 March 2014

9:00 AM

So BBC3 will be online-only from next autumn. If the Beeb had presented this news as the channel being the first one to take the daring step of migrating to the internet, instead of it being booted out to save the likes of BBC4, perhaps BBC3 fans would be feeling less aggrieved.

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