[tellyblues]

FAST channels are great for binge-watching but then what? For the time someone watches an extra half an hour of something then gets bored and wants to do something else, surely a broadcaster would want them, as is the case with a traditional linear channel devoted to a variety of stuff including new stuff, to keep watching? What chance does new content have when there are numerous FAST channels of old shows kicking about?

FAST is the future but only for shows established enough and having the volume of episodes for it. Mr Bean was mentioned but that's over twenty years old now and no new episodes are being made. How is that providing for the current generation of youngsters? There won't be many recent examples of long-running series on CITV given how badly it has performed over the last 10-15 years and they won't be that popular to justify a FAST channel so where do they go instead of linear that some people are so obsessed in doing away with?

ITV and the BBC for that matter don't have the budget to compete with other providers. The thing is, the BBC could compete if they used the money instead of that for shows which now air on BBC1 and have been brought about by the removal of the CBBC block, but that won't happen. Changing viewing habits, blah blah blah...

BBC3 is the result of warped logic of proving that the BBC provide for a particular demographic but using programmes that are/were intended for others to bring in the viewers to make grandiose claims. Top Gear. African Nations Cup. Masterchef Australia. MOTDx. The last two being off-shoots of already established shows when possibly non-branded formats would have worked just as well and the intended audiences would have felt more assured they were made specifically for them. But as we see with the junior version of Taskmaster recently commissioned, shows for kids can only have proper budgets and be aired on the main channels if grown-ups can watch them too. Laughable.