BBC3 bid: ‘We’re trying to say that there is another way’
Jon Thoday and Jimmy Mulville detail their plans to buy the channel, answer BBC concerns, and say investors are queuing up
Thoday’s company, Avalon (Russell Howard’s Good News), and Mulville’s, Hat Trick (Have I Got News for You), are both successful independent TV production companies, together turning over more than £100m a year. Coincidentally, that figure of £100m crops up twice more in their embryonic bid to save the youth-focused channel from the low-budget, online-only future that director general Tony Hall plans for it. Avalon and Hat Trick have offered £100m as a one-off purchase price to buy BBC3 – but have also said they plan to increase its commissioning budget to £100m, up at least 20% from its current level.
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