BBC Three Axed

Another one bites the dust, as the fledging terrestrial channel becomes an online-only service!
BBC News have just announced that the BBC intend to close their BBC Three channel this year. The news comes in the wake of a series of groundbreaking changes instigated by the company's current Director General, Tony Hall, shutting the doors on a TV division which has operated (to varying degrees of success) for the best part of eleven years.

The main reason for this disheartening turn of events? To paraphrase Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor, it's probably the one you're expecting- cash. Hall and his fellow execs are aiming to save £100 million in 2014 from an ongoing "budget process" which entails more than a few "tough choices". Followers of the channel can at least take solace in the knowledge that Hall plans to transform the channel (which has kick-started such remarkable TV franchises as Torchwood, Gavin & Stacey, Doctor Who Confidential, Little Britain and Being Human in the past decade) into an online-only service later this year, though he still needs approval from the BBC Trust in order for this campaign to go ahead. An official announcement on the matter will be made at a press conference tomorrow- for now, however, RIP BBC Three, and our thoughts go out to all of those members of staff who will be once again in search of employment come the channel's termination.

For all the latest developments on the BBC's financial campaign for 2014 and their upcoming televisual productions, stay tuned to On-Screen in the days ahead!