BBC Four & CBBC to close

[RDJ]

It’s understandable. Something’s gotta give, and the backlash from BBC Three closing down and then re-opening means that BBC Four was always next at risk.

With most of the archive material the channel now broadcasts readily available on the iPlayer, it makes less sense for the channel to keep going - especially with viewership not being spectacular.

I would expect the likes of the TOTP repeats and some other programming to transfer to BBC Two. I suspect that’s why stuff like The Story of TOTP series has been broadcast on BBC Two. When the remit of one BBC channel starts to blur into another BBC channel, you just know somethings on the horizon.