BBC3 is back on TV after years as a sort of online thing. The channel’s millions of fans pay tribute to its legendary high-quality programming:
“What TV needed in the 2000s was more annoying exhibitionists and fake tan morons, and Snog Marry Avoid? delivered them by the truckload. I watched every episode until my doctor warned my brain was shutting down. It was presented by one of Atomic Kitten but nobody knows which one.”
Lucy, Bicester
“I’d always found Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps too cerebral and highbrow so Coming of Age was perfect, with its mind-deadening treadmill of puerile gags about excrement, ejaculation and the name ‘Fanny’. I’m laughing now.”
Liam, Llangollen
“Probably the most powerful documentary of the 21st century was I Believe in UFOs: Danny Dyer. A proper bloke skimming through some old UFO ‘evidence’ and meeting the usual cranks. His hard-hitting conclusion? Aliens probably haven’t visited us. Superb factual programming from BBC3.”
Tom, Cleethorpes
“American Dad was great. I’d been waiting all my life for a lame rehash of Family Guy by the same people, and this fulfilled all my expectations. Which were: the wife’s gone to bed but I need something to watch while I have another can.”
Lauren, Airdrie
“I loved Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents, where young people trying to get laid on holiday were spied on by their mum and dad in a f**ked-up Freudian nightmare. It was hilarious and in no way exploitative shit with the hook of teenagers knobbing.”
Simon, Loughborough
“Like all Stacey Dooley’s documentaries, Blood, Sweat and T-shirts really opened my eyes. Never in a million years would I have guessed the Asian clothing industry exploited workers. It certainly seemed news to celebrated documentarian Stacey.”
Leanne, Hythe
“Torchwood had the thought-provoking concepts sci-fi fans demand: cyberwomen with tits, cannibal hillbillies and gays. Forget your Kurt Vonnegut and Samuel R Delaney, I’ll stick with a live-action Scooby-Doo in bloody Wales.”
Wayne, Chertsey
