BBC Three has always tried to speak to younger audiences with factual content and programmes that help broaden our minds or 'make me think', this is what more often than not pushes BBC Three to commission these programmes. They also have other aspects that they look which are
What else
do they look for?
- Programmes/Documentaries should stimulate strong emotions
- Programmes/Documentaries must provoke reactions in the audience watching.
- Documentaries department is at the heart of the long form content on BBC Three.
- Priorities are important
- BBC Three is always looking for exceptional access of series.
- BBC Three looks for the extremes of young people’s experience.
- Brave and ambitious series.
- Directors should have a strong idea of what they want to discover/explore/reveal
- Series that have you audiences question the issues of the modern world.
- Taking the audience into challenging stories which question our assumptions.
- There are opportunities for series with a real sense of humour.
- Series should have underlying social purpose.
- Series that can create their own seasons (Such as Life and Death Row was at the centre of the Crime and Punishment season.)
- Some seasons need defining series to lead it.
- Distinctive series that takes the audience into new territories.
- Series that give audiences new subjects.
- Factual ideas of scale beyond observational documentaries.
- Purposeful experiments.
- Factual formats that cut to a deeper truth about young people’s experiences.
- No longer commissioning series that are out-and-out factual entertainment.
- Single pitches are commission a lot.
- Have a huge ambition.
- Demonstrate a passion for a story/phenomenon you want to explore.
All information taking from BBC website, changes to research to avoid copyright
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