BBC Four & CBBC to close

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I do agree losing both 3 and 4 would give 2 a new lease of life.  There's so much stuff on both networks that 25 years ago would have found a natural home on BBC Two.  Had The Fast Show come in the 2000's, it would have been a BBC Three show but it's on BBC Two where it made its name in the 90's.  So there's method in the madness on doing that.  Archive material of course, by its very nature is ripe content for streaming.

Life has changed. In an age with just four channels, and no internet or any other domestic distraction, the odd programme aimed to one type of audience in a mixed schedule could be watched. Today with several hundred channels, all of the streaming services, and everything else on the internet and via mobiles, the odd programme in a mixed schedule is likely to be lost.