BBC Comedy

BBC Comedy is a moribund free-to-air British television channel owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Launched on 1 April 2016 as a replacement for BBC Three (which had went online on 16 February), the service's remit is to provide comedy-themed programmes from the BBC to a target audience of viewers between 13 and 28 years old.

Like it's predecessor, 90% of BBC Comedy's output originated from the UK, while 10% of the channel's output originates from the United States.

Until April 2020, the channel broadcasts on Freeview, digital cable, IPTV and Satellite television platforms, and is on-air from 7 pm to around 4 am each night to share terrestrial television bandwidth with CBBC.

History
On 5 January 2016, the BBC announced that they were planning to launch a channel to replace BBC Three with when the channel closed down and moved online on 31 March 2016. They had already sided against a BBC One timeshift service, but was rejected by the BBC Trust, citing limited public value.

On 14 February 2016, the BBC announced that BBC Comedy would be launched in the place of BBC Three's channel space on 1 April 2016.

The channel was launched on 1 April 2016.

On 25 December 2019, the BBC announced that due to low viewership, from 7 April 2020, the channel would be closed and replaced by a one-hour timeshift service of BBC One, the channel that was originally planned to replace BBC Three.

The channel will cease operations on 7 April 2020, with the one-hour timeshift service of BBC One assuming it's channel space.