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Country | United Kingdom |
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Broadcast area | United Kingdom |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English |
Picture format | 16:9 576i SDTV |
Ownership | |
Owner | Paramount Networks UK & Australia |
Parent | Channel 5 Broadcasting Ltd |
Sister channels | |
History | |
Launched | 13 February 2018 |
Replaced | My5 |
Links | |
Website | channel5.com |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Freeview | Channel 56 |
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.
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
- ^ "What is 5SELECT?". www.faqs.channel5.com. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
- ^ Information from What's on TV, magazine dated 10 February until 16 February 2018.
- ^ "New C5 service to be called 5Select". a516digital. Archived from the original on 21 June 2018. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
- ^ "Yorkshire-made Channel 5 show the Highland Vet secures another series after proving hit with viewers".
- ^ https://www.daisybeckstudios.com
- ^ "The Highland Vet (TV Series)".
- ^ "Animal magic in the Highland Vet". 8 September 2021.
- ^ "The Highland Vet to return for second series". 16 October 2020.
- ^ "China: 1,000 Years of History".
- ^ "Scotland: 1,000 Years of History".
- ^ "British Airways: Then and Now".
- ^ "Then & Now Season 1".
- ^ "Secrets of the River Clyde".
- ^ "Secrets of the River Clyde".
- ^ "My5".
- ^ "World War II in Colour Season 1".
- ^ "Walking Victorian Britain Season 1".
- ^ "My5".
- ^ "Walking Wartime Britain".
- ^ Radio Times 2–8 October 2021: 5 October 2021 schedules - 5Select
- ^ "Viacom International Studios UK".
- ^ "TV listings guide".
- ^ "A Country Life for Half the Price with Kate Humble Season 2".
- ^ "A Country Life for Half the Price with Kate Humble Season 2".
- ^ "How the Victorians Built Britain Season 2".
- ^ http://www.itnproductions.co.uk/television/productions/documentary/royal-documentaries/
- ^ "101 Events That Made the 20th Century Season 1".
- ^ "Viacom International Studios UK".
- ^ "The Story of the Songs Season 1".
- ^ "Wonderful Wales with Michael Ball Season 1".
External links