5Select

5Select (stylised as 5SELECT) is a British free-to-air television channel which features documentaries, arts, dramas, comedies and Channel 5 original content.[1][2] It is owned by Paramount Global and opeated by Paramount Networks UK & Australia.

5Select
CountryUnited Kingdom
Broadcast areaUnited Kingdom
Programming
Language(s)English
Picture format16:9 576i SDTV
Ownership
OwnerParamount Networks UK & Australia
ParentChannel 5 Broadcasting Ltd
Sister channels
History
Launched13 February 2018 (2018-02-13)
ReplacedMy5
Links
Websitechannel5.com
Availability
Terrestrial
FreeviewChannel 56

History

Channel 5 were set to launch a new channel called 5Prime. It was going to be a catch-up channel, launching in January 2018, but it was never officially launched. A month later, 5Prime was rebranded as 5Select and it launched at 9:00am on 13 February 2018, with the first programme, Access, being shown.[3] On the 1st of July, 5Select moved from the SDN (COM4) MUX to the BBC B HD Mux on Freeview. As a result, viewers with older Freeview equipment lost the channel while viewers with DVB-T2 compatible Freeview TVs or Freeview+HD boxes feature could receive the channel.

Programming

First-run
  • The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (from 2019, earlier series debuted on Channel 5)
  • The Dog Rescuers: Best in Show
  • The Highland Vet (from the makers of The Yorkshire Vet, Daisybeck Studios,[4][5] but based at practices in Thurso and Wick)[6][7][8]
  • 1,000 Years of History (including episodes on China[9] and Scotland)[10]
  • The Secret Life of Owls
  • The Story of the Songs (episodes with rock acts broadcast only by 5Select, episodes with pop acts shown on Channel 5)
  • Striking Out
  • Then & Now (subjects have included British Airways,[11] London Transport[12] and various British rivers, with some programmes re-titled by Channel 5 and shown on the main channel under names such as Secrets of the River Clyde)[13][14]
  • Thirties in Colour: Countdown to War[15] (with the channel also broadcasting 2009 series World War II in Colour in a similar timeslot, once the three episodes had been shown)[16]
  • Walking Victorian Britain (with Onyeka Nubia)[17]
  • Walking Wartime Britain (presented by former Royal Marine Arthur Williams)[18][19][20]
  • The Yorkshire Vet Casebook

Second-run
  • Access (this show was rebranded as Entertainment News)
  • Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild
  • Britain's Favourite 80s Songs (known in the VIS/Viacom Studios UK catalogue under the title The 80s Greatest Hits 1980-1989)[21][22]
  • A Country Life for Half the Price with Kate Humble[23][24]
  • The Dog Rescuers (until 2019, when new series debuted on 5Select)
  • Dogs with Incredible Jobs
  • GPs: Behind Closed Doors
  • The Hotel Inspector
  • How the Victorians Built Britain (documentary series with Michael Buerk)[25]
  • ITN Royal Documentaries (with titles such as Fergie vs Diana: Royal Wives at War, Beatrice and Eugenie: Pampered Princesses? and Princess Margaret: Rebel Without A Crown)[26]
  • Neighbours
  • 101 Events That Made the 20th Century[27]
  • The Story of the Songs (most episodes were broadcast back-to-back with Britain's Favourite 80s Songs on Channel 5, though selected episodes with rock bands like Metallica or The Police debuted on 5Select with no Channel 5 transmission dates)[28][29]
  • Wonderful Wales with Michael Ball[30]
  • World War 1 in Colour
  • World War II in Colour (this 2009 series was broadcast as a follow-up to Thirties in Colour: Countdown to War in the 5Select weekly schedules)
  • A Year in the Wild (nature documentary, with series devoted to Alaska, Loch Lomond and Yorkshire)
  • The Yorkshire Vet

References
  1. "What is 5SELECT?". www.faqs.channel5.com. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  2. Information from What's on TV, magazine dated 10 February until 16 February 2018.
  3. "New C5 service to be called 5Select". a516digital. Archived from the original on 21 June 2018. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
  4. "Yorkshire-made Channel 5 show the Highland Vet secures another series after proving hit with viewers".
  5. https://www.daisybeckstudios.com
  6. "The Highland Vet (TV Series)".
  7. "Animal magic in the Highland Vet". 8 September 2021.
  8. "The Highland Vet to return for second series". 16 October 2020.
  9. "China: 1,000 Years of History".
  10. "Scotland: 1,000 Years of History".
  11. "British Airways: Then and Now".
  12. "Then & Now Season 1".
  13. "Secrets of the River Clyde".
  14. "Secrets of the River Clyde".
  15. "My5".
  16. "World War II in Colour Season 1".
  17. "Walking Victorian Britain Season 1".
  18. "My5".
  19. "Walking Wartime Britain".
  20. Radio Times 2–8 October 2021: 5 October 2021 schedules - 5Select
  21. "Viacom International Studios UK".
  22. "TV listings guide".
  23. "A Country Life for Half the Price with Kate Humble Season 2".
  24. "A Country Life for Half the Price with Kate Humble Season 2".
  25. "How the Victorians Built Britain Season 2".
  26. http://www.itnproductions.co.uk/television/productions/documentary/royal-documentaries/
  27. "101 Events That Made the 20th Century Season 1".
  28. "Viacom International Studios UK".
  29. "The Story of the Songs Season 1".
  30. "Wonderful Wales with Michael Ball Season 1".


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