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It puzzles me as to why BBC Three was brought back as a linear channel,  given that their target audience mainly watches stuff online now.

Always came across as something of a backwards step to me.

I'm pleased BBC Four might end up being saved after all.

Because BBC Three's audience completely collapsed once it went online only  uk.news.yahoo.com 

And as the Deadline article states, BBC Three has failed to make much of an impact since returning to linear.

The channel's schedule is a pretty sorry state. Repeat after repeat after repeat and randomly slotting in Northern Irish sport programmes in recent months. Not to mention the reappearance of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps reruns and EastEnders repeats.  Is it 2023 or 2003?

Bringing the channel back to linear was ill-judged and counter to what the BBC argues most of the rest of the time, that this target audience largely lives online.

The schedule is not strong and what original programming there is doesn't seem to be making much of an impact.  Original content would perhaps be better off shared between BBC One/Two and online.