{"id":10545,"date":"2022-01-31T10:16:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T09:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1574875"},"modified":"2022-01-31T10:45:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T09:45:07","slug":"bbc-three-boss-would-love-to-launch-new-soap-showcasing-modern-britain","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/bbc-three-boss-would-love-to-launch-new-soap-showcasing-modern-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Three boss would \u201clove\u201d to launch new soap showcasing \u201cmodern Britain\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fiona Campbell offered some ideas about setting and casting for a BBC Three soap as the channel returns. <\/p>

By Lidia Molina-Whyte\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 31 January 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Despite the BBC\u2019s future currently hanging in the balance amid reported plans to abolish TV licence fee<\/a>, BBC Three returns as a traditional broadcast channel on 1st February.<\/p>\n

The previously online-only channel will be available to watch on Freeview, Sky, Virgin and Freesat from Tuesday 1st February, broadcasting every night from 7pm and also on iPlayer.<\/p>\n

RuPaul spin-off RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race: UK Versus the World<\/a> will kick off the launch as the channel aims to draw in a younger audience. But could a soap also be on the cards for the revived channel\u2019s future?<\/p>\n

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BBC Three boss Fiona Campbell was more than keen on the idea during a chat with RadioTimes.com<\/a> and other press, and even shared some ideas about potential setting and casting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI think [a BBC Three soap] would be a great opportunity to showcase modern Britain, somewhere very specific in modern Britain,\u201d she said. \u201cYou know, it could be Derry, or Belfast, it could be Aberdeen, it could be Newcastle. I\u2019d want to put it somewhere like that and then showcase a locality like that in all its glory.\u201d<\/p>

Campbell added: \u201cWhen we did [Meet] the Khans we got a lot of feedback about how good Bolton looked and people from Bolton were really proud of how we portrayed it, so I\u2019d like to do that within a soap.\u201d<\/p>\n

Campbell also explained how she would go about casting it, saying: \u201cI\u2019d like to provide a platform for it and the cast of the future within that. You know, you can see how many stars of the future came out of early EastEnders so that would be completely amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked what a BBC Three soap could offer that other soaps can\u2019t, she said the channel\u2019s tone of voice and social media presence were \u201cvery specific\u201d and would allow for an alternative approach.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cI would do some casting on Instagram from social and I would just approach it from a different way than these things are classically done. I\u2019d have a pipeline for new young writers at scale, and a writers room at scale, and again use social so it\u2019s easier to get people in, because it\u2019s bloody hard work to get into, to try out in that kind of world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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