BBC Three controller Fiona Campbell has revealed that she is working on plans for the channel to have its own soap in the future.
After six years as an online-only service, BBC Three returns to the linear TV airwaves this evening with a host of new programming planned.
Campbell has seen her channel's budget double to £80m to coincide with the relaunch, and speaking to journalists at a junket, she outlined an intention to spend a chunk of it on a new soap.
"I think it would be a great opportunity to showcase modern Britain, somewhere very specific in modern Britain," she said.
"You know, it could be Derry, or Belfast, it could be Aberdeen, it could be Newcastle. I'd want to put it somewhere like that and then showcase a locality like that in all its glory."
She continued: "I 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'd have a pipeline for new young writers at scale, and a writers room at scale, and again use social so it's easier to get people in, because it's bloody hard work to get into, to try out in that kind of world."
The new soap would likely go out as part of BBC Three's pre-9pm schedule, rivalling Hollyoaks for younger viewers.
Neil Wilkes
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