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The main attraction for the reboot BBC Three has been RuPaul's Drag Race UK and all the other 156 different variations of it

That show has kind of highlighted how there is no room to hide on linear TV.    It could pretty much be declared a hit by the BBC as an iPlayer first show (though it got a BBC1 repeat) and had enough buzz around it to seem like it was, but then on BBC3 on TV it's not actually done that great numbers.   

That said though I'm surprised they don't use reruns and the international versions more to pad out the late night schedule.   They could probably run the back catalogue of the US versions on weeknights across the year, though I'm not sure the BBC has rights to the US version.

Drag Race gets the hype because of its concept, much like The Traitors or The Circle, but it isn't accessible enough nor of interest to those who watch linear TV. You have to wonder why so many reality shows get commissioned for the main channels when the audience they will appeal to isn't there.