BBC Three channel to return in January 2022

Well they are technically launching an old one

The making BBC Four International part mentioned in the 2020-21 plan is happening (though under the name of BBC Select).

You’re quite right, and I had completely forgotten.

Good news.

Funny that 20 years ago, public service broadcasting was forcing BBC3 to run a 7pm news programme that nobody watched; now public service broadcasting will be running shows for teenagers. Finally got it right.

Didn't they actually announce that programmes would no longer be commissioned by any specific channel? The various BBC programming departments will just commission programmes, and then decide where to put them. So it doesn't mean that BBC Four won't have any new programming.

For Clarity here's what the BBC Annual Plan said about BBC Three and Four.
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I can’t help but think the ship has sailed and we’ll be here again in a couple of years... pondering why it’s been cancelled again. I just can’t see my kids coming off streaming services to watch something on “normal telly”

also, with reference to the above, January 2022 doesn't seem like they are "moving decisively"

Surely it's more about ensuring that they're capturing those who do still watch linear TV, rather than trying to tempt people away from iPlayer.

Remember it was never really about the cost of running the channel itself - they moved it online really to cover up the fact they were slashing the programming budget, and would no longer have had enough programmes to fill the schedule.

If bringing the channel back boosts overall consumption of BBC Three programming, even by a modest amount, then that'll be job done.

Wonder if the classics will return?. Don’t tell the bride, family guy, sun sex and suspicious parents, Eastenders omnibus

'Classics' is being used in the loosest sense of the word there.

It does make me very happy indeed mate!

Ident wise, remember the sting they used for bbc one in March 2019?