After being absent from our television screens for over five years, the widely popular channel BBC Three is set to make its long-anticipated return on Tuesday, February 1 as fully-fledged source of "multi-genre" entertainment.
The youth-concentrated platform, which was first introduced in 2003, moved wholly online 13 years later, however last year Ofcom approved the channel's return to mainstream viewing, claiming that this would help the beeb reach more youthful viewers outside London, and also that 75% of its output must be original programming.
Now, with it officially returning, we take a look back at the shows which were originally homed on the channel, and which stars of them have seen their on-screen careers take off since their respective premieres.
