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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.

I still believe that the BBC has made the right choice in bringing BBC Three back, research also provled that the online move was a flop, it was proven that moving channels online only does NOT work, if the schedule is not strong then this is another matter

The BBC Three move to online and the consequences of that decision does not definitively prove that moving linear channels online will always fail.  There are a multitude of parameters at play.