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16 unusual facts about BBC Three


Burn It

Burn It was first shown on the free-to-air British digital channel BBC Three, and then repeated some months later on the terrestrial channel BBC2.

Cyderdelic

Cyderdelic was a BBC Three spoof documentary following the activities of a 'West Country direct action group within the growing anti-capitalist movement'.

Hillside Animal Sanctuary

Hillside the animal sanctuary and also Hillside's separate work in uncovering animal cruelty have both featured in television programmes, including Channel 4's It's Me or the Dog, BBC Three's The Baby Borrowers and the BBC Two programme Escape to the Country which has an episode dedicated to Hillside.

Hovis Presley

He also appeared on the BBC Three show Whine Gums, which presented many modern poets reading their work.

Lindsay Lohan's Indian Journey

In its original broadcast on BBC Three on 1 April 2010, it was viewed by 224,000 households, a 0.9% share of the audience.

London School of Business and Finance

In October 2011, the British television channel BBC Three featured the LSBF School of English in a documentary about a group of young immigrants who went to the UK to realise their professional ambitions.

Mike Hindert

Their set was due to be broadcast live on BBC Three in the daytime, but had to be shown well after the watershed, as Hindert stripped naked on stage because of the hot weather.

Oak Hall, Haslemere

The BBC Three television series Leave Us Kids Alone was filmed at Oak Hall in the 2007 summer holidays.

Personal Affairs

Personal Affairs (also known as P.A's) was a 2009 British television drama-comedy series, broadcast on BBC Three.

Pulling Moves

The show was first aired on BBC Northern Ireland in 2003, and aired nationwide on BBC Three, which ran for one series of ten episodes.

Shapwick School

In November 2010, the school gained national attention when it was featured in a BBC Three documentary Kara Tointon: Don't Call Me Stupid about actress Kara Tointon who suffers from dyslexia.

Spine Chillers

Spine Chillers is also the name of a British series aimed at older viewers, a horror/comedy anthology first shown on BBC Three.

Steve Frew

Frew has also appeared as a competitor on television in the BBC Three series Hercules, and was a member of the team representing Glasgow in the ITV game show Simply the Best.

The Tip-Off

It was originally broadcast on digital channel BBC Three on 28 October 2008, and repeated on frontline channel BBC One on 3 November.

The episode was originally broadcast on the digital channel BBC Three from 11 pm on Tuesday, 28 October 2008, after the broadcast of the second episode on BBC One.

Thruxton Circuit

Outside of motor racing, the circuit offers a driving school for aspiring racing drivers, plus featured as the venue for BBC3’s series ‘Stars in Fast Cars’.


Adam and Joe

They won the Royal Television Society Best Newcomers Award in 1998, published The Adam and Joe Book in 1999, and presented BBC Three's coverage of the Glastonbury Festival in 2000 and 2002.

Alyssa Nicole Pallett

In 2008, Pallett signed with the Samantha Bond Agency in the UK, known for discovering glamour model "Jordan" (Katie Price) and the BBC Three series Glamour Girls.

Cathy Tyson

Tyson played Herodia in BBC Three's Liverpool Nativity, a modern adaptation of the traditional Christmas story.

Daniel Sloss

That same month he also featured on comic book maestro Mark Millar’s final GFT Geekfest, performed on BBC Three’s Russell Howard's Good News and was a guest speaker at the illustrious TEDx, recorded in Ealing.

David Armand

Armand starred in BBC Three sitcom, How Not to Live Your Life as Eddie Singh, the overenthusiastic former caregiver for the late grandmother of the show's leading character, Don Danbury (Dan Clark).

Don't Move, Improve

In 2007, the show was re-designed and the third series aired with new presenter Nick Young (who, at the time also presented 60 Seconds on BBC Three).

Ewan Bailey

Ewan Bailey (born 1966) is an actor, writer and voice artist located in Central London, best known for writing and performing in The Sunday Format, BBC Radio 4's satire of British Sunday newspapers, Funland, BBC Three's darker than dark comedy set in the English seaside town of Blackpool, HBO's recent epic series Rome and the recent, highly acclaimed bio-pic of "Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!".

Find Me the Face

Find Me the Face is a documentary which was made by Fever Media and first broadcast on BBC Three between 12 February and 18 March 2008.

Gregg Chillin

Chillin is notable for his appearance as Owen in the first series of BBC Three's Being Human, Manuel in the British 2010 movie 4.3.2.1 directed by Noel Clarke and is currently filming the new David S. Goyer American series Da Vinci's Demons premiering in 2013.

Grey Global Group

In episode three of the 2010 series of BBC Three's Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum, the young adults spend a day at Grey Advertising working on a mock sexual health campaign.

Heather Peace

In 2010, Peace was cast as Detective Sergeant Sam Murray in the groundbreaking BBC Three TV series Lip Service, written by Harriet Braun about the loves and lives of group of aged-30-something lesbians in Glasgow, Scotland.

Marcus Berkmann

He is also credited as one of the writing team of the BBC Three comedy show Monkey Dust, and compiles the "Dumb Britain" column in Private Eye magazine.

Matt Charlton

His most recent projects include series 4 of Listen Against; a Christmas special for BBC 6 Music featuring Steve Lamacq, Greg Davies, and Suede; and Britain Unzipped for BBC Three.

Nick Doody

He has appeared on BBC Radio 2, The Comic Side of 7 Days on BBC Three, and has written for 8 out of 10 Cats, The Late Edition (BBC Four), The Now Show (BBC Radio 4), Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive (BBC Radio 4) and took his second solo show Hypocrite to the Edinburgh Festival in 2007.

Nick Mohammed

Mohammed has featured in the second series of BBC One’s Reggie Perrin and was a co-presenter in BBC Three comedy series The King Is Dead alongside Simon Bird and Katy Wix.

Richard Mackney

Along with Claudia Winkleman and Keith Duffy, Mackney was a reporter on ITV1’s short-lived celebrity news show, Celebrity!, hosted by Andi Peters and Penny Smith, and in 2003 became the roving reporter on BBC Three’s live, weekly celebrity stock exchange show, Celebdaq, presented by Paddy O'Connell.

Ross Adams

Ross Adams is an English television actor originally from Newcastle upon Tyne best known for his role as Jeff Bowyer in the BBC Three sitcom The Gemma Factor alongside Anna Gilthorpe, Claire King, Gwyneth Powell and Angus Barnett.

Ruth Bratt

Bratt has made notable appearances on several TV shows including FAQ U on Channel 4 (2005) and Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive on BBC Three (2006).

She played a number of different roles in several episodes of BBC Three's "Mongrels" and in 2013, she appeared in Ricky Gervais' show Derek.

Ruth Negga

She also played the lead role of Doris 'Sid' Siddiqi in the BBC Three series Personal Affairs, alongside Laura Aikman, Annabel Scholey and Maimie McCoy.

Sarah Cawood

She also co-commentated on the semi-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, 2009 and 2010 alongside Paddy O'Connell for viewers in the United Kingdom on BBC Three.

Shapwick, Somerset

In November 2010, the school was featured in November a BBC Three documentary Kara Tointon: Don't call me stupid about actress Kara Tointon who suffers from dyslexia.

Undercover Princes

Undercover Princes is a BBC Three reality TV show which took three royal claimants from foreign cultures and placed them in Brighton where they had to 'live and date' like normal people.

Vile Imbeciles

The band went on to promote the album with new drummer Evan Reinhold, who had previously collaborated with Huxley in bohemian cabaret band The Dirty Cakes (featured on the BBC Three Reality TV Show Singing with the Enemy) which Huxley was a songwriter for.