The remit of BBC Three is to bring younger audiences to high-quality public service broadcasting through a mixed-genre schedule of innovative UK content featuring new UK talent. The channel should use the full range of digital platforms to deliver its content and to build an interactive relationship with its audience.

BBC Three will continue to contribute towards the delivery of the BBC's public purposes in the range of ways set out in its service licence. Key developments in the way in which the service will contribute to each purpose are outlined below. These are designed to address the priorities identified by the BBC Trust, future-proof the delivery of the purposes, and address perceived gaps in delivery in line with strategies in the BBC's purpose plans.

1 Stimulating creativity and cultural excellence

• Priority: This purpose lies at the heart of BBC Three's remit and this year the channel will place particular emphasis on addressing the BBC's priorities through its support for new talent and its investment in new, risk-taking ideas. For example, BBC Three will aim to maintain its reputation as the UK's leading digital channel for new comedy ideas and talent, including innovative use of CGI in The Wrong Door and a new comedy series called Coming of Age written by a 19-year-old student. In drama, following a run of experimental pilots last year, the channel will focus on new UK drama series with an emphasis on young talent, including PAs, Spooks: Code 9 and Being Human.
• Priority: As part of the BBC's commitment to British performers, there will be a brand new comedy entertainment series called The Wall which aims to become a platform for new comedy talent on behalf of the whole BBC portfolio.

2 Delivering the benefit of emerging communications technologies

• Priority: BBC Three will continue to innovate and aim to further enhance its reputation as a leading multi-platform brand, reflecting the media consumption of its audience. It will build on recent successes, involving the audience in a much more interactive way and often using their own high-quality contributions. Short-form content will be a particular priority this year, as will making more content available on mobile and portable platforms. There will also be a number of initiatives designed to encourage active citizenship among the audience using the web around topical, relevant issues.
• The channel website will also explore further new ways to involve the audience, including fresh iterations to the Live Arena and the new schedule planner.

3 Sustaining citizenship and civil society

• Priority: BBC Three plays an important role in supporting the BBC's priority to improve engagement of harder-to-reach sections of the audience with news, current affairs and topical issues that are relevant to them. 60 Seconds will remain as the channel's main TV news bulletin, and the returning strand Mischief will this year examine topics such as the high levels of debt among the young and the chronic shortage of housing for young people starting out in life. World news bulletins, as well as special bulletins on subjects such as science, technology and the environment, will also feature.
• The Lost Innocence Season will feature a range of documentaries examining how life can be very tough at an early age for some in the UK today, and Young Mums' Mansion will group a number of young single mothers in one place to see if living together can help them overcome some of the difficulties they face.

4 Promoting education and learning

• BBC Three will continue to contribute to the BBC's purpose in this area by exploring a wide range of difficult topics in compelling and engaging formats, aiming to engage younger adult audiences in a range of subjects. In Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts a group of teenagers will travel to India where they will work in clothing factories, to understand the effort being made by workers on the other side of the world to make their clothes for so little cost. Make My Body Younger is a series which will aim to inform young viewers about the health risks associated with the pursuit of a hedonistic lifestyle, and My Life as a... will aim to educate viewers on issues of animal welfare.

5 Representing the UK, its nations, regions and communities

• BBC Three will continue to contribute to the BBC's purpose in this area with strong representation of the UK's diversity in a way that connects with young audiences. For example, music festival coverage will range from Glastonbury to T in the Park to the Reading and Leeds festivals and Radio 1's Big Weekend.
• The MOBO (Music of Black Origin) Awards and the brand new comedy series Trexx and Flipside, as well as Scallywagga (from Manchester), will also form part of BBC Three's strategy to reflect the full diversity of the UK today.

6 Bringing the UK to the world and the world to the UK

• BBC Three will continue to bring international issues and subject matter to the attention of its audience. The documentary Whose Hair is it Anyway? will feature within the Beauty Season, looking at the growing trend for hair extensions and asking where they actually come from.

Unless otherwise stated, all commitments are minimum hours and include originations, repeats and acquisitions.
All conditions are annual unless otherwise stated.

Stimulating creativity and cultural excellence

• 35 hours of new music and arts programmes

Promoting education and learning

• 125 hours of new factual programmes

Sustaining citizenship and civil society

• 15 hours of new current affairs programmes

In these commitments, peak time is defined as 19.00–24.00 hours.

The following quotas are agreed with Ofcom and are measured across a calendar year (results are published in the BBC Annual Report and Accounts):

• A minimum of 80% of all hours, and 70% of hours in peak, to be original productions (original productions include all BBC-commissioned programming, excluding repeats of programming first shown on another BBC public service channel).

And in conjunction with other BBC network television services:

• A minimum of 30% of relevant programme production budgets, representing a minimum of 25% hours of productions by volume, to be spent outside the M25.
• To maintain the current broad range of programmes produced outside the M25, and broad range of different production centres used across the UK.
• A minimum of 25% of qualifying hours across all of the BBC's network and non-network television services are provided by independent producers.

And in conjunction with other BBC network television services:

• A minimum of 30% of relevant programme production budgets, representing a minimum of 25% hours of productions by volume, to be spent outside the M25.
• To maintain the current broad range of programmes produced outside the M25, and broad range of different production centres used across the UK.
• A minimum of 25% of qualifying hours across all of the BBC's network and non-network television services are provided by independent producers.

The BBC observes Ofcom's Access Services Code. BBC Three has the following targets:

• A minimum of 90% of qualifying programming hours to have subtitling. Additionally, the BBC aims to subtitle 100% of actual programmes on the channel.
  (The relevant 12-month period runs from 1 April.)
• A minimum of 5% of qualifying programme hours to have signing.
  (The relevant 12-month period runs from 1 November.)
• A minimum of 10% of qualifying programme hours to have audio description.
  (The relevant 12-month period runs from 1 November.)