Five Reviews

Channel 5 (Five) is the youngest of the five major terrestrial channels in the UK. It was originally launched in 1997 so it has been around now for 13 years. The channels popularity slightly increased as it improved its programming schedule and included more interesting and entertaining programmes but recently has gone back down a bit ...  Read the complete review

When Channel Five begun, they quickly amassed quite a tawdry reputation as the worst of the five channels, and earned a lot of criticism for their frequent airing of softcore porn in the early hours of the morning. While I might have appreciated it more than many as a kid growing up in the late nineties, they're a channel that have ...  Read the complete review

I remember when five first hit the airwaves, it launched with the big coup of having secured the rights to the England vs Poland match. The picture quality was terrible due to the very limited bandwidth they had and I questioned whether this was dead before it had even begun but after some very bland programmes and thankfully after the ...  Read the complete review

Channel Five is quite new in the world of TV but it is fair to say it is my favourite original terrestrial channel. Channel Five is famous for its brilliant US crime dramas from CSI to NCIS, Law & Order and previously House. Channel Five delivers what other channels never have which is to bring great crime drama straight ...  Read the complete review

The year was 1997, and back then, there were only 4 tv channel on our screens, but that was until Channel 5 came about. However, even though it was a new channel, not everyone in the UK are able to recieve channel five, and it doesnt even come with an cable company, so for some of you, it is unfortunate. Over the years, one ...  Read the complete review

This channel was launched in 1997, it's the 5th terrestrial channel in the UK. This is the only terrestrial channel that doesn't get coverage in the whole of the UK and is unavailable on cable. The shows that are on the channel include Australian soaps neighbours (since 2008) and Home and Away, CSI, House Doctor, Zoo Days, ...  Read the complete review

Channel 5 started way back in the year 1997, it was rather cheap and tacky put over the years my opinion has started to change. Some of the programs are great for the young chldren, my daughter loves noddy and fifi and the flowerpot men. If you have children and they get up early they will love this section. The sport has also improved ...  Read the complete review

Let's face it; we all know that when Channel 5 began in 1997, it had nothing. It was a channel that purely relied on cheap imports, smut and painful attempts at original programmes. It wasn't long before it gained its reputation for the cheap, seedy terrestrial, which was nothing but a complete waste of time. It's a good job it has ...  Read the complete review

Will Channel 5 ever big big? I do not know when it was when Channel 5 launched a few years ago with the Spice Girls, but Channel 5 has always been full of rubbish, and have finally decided to do something right and get rid of family affairs (title of programme doesn't even deserve capital letters). Actually I am wrong they did do ...  Read the complete review

Let us be truthful-channel 5 has produced a load of rubbish over the first 3 or 4 years of its existence. It showed outdated movies, cheap American soaps and then tried to become more serious by showing poorly made documentaries. However, recently the standard has been increased greatly by new management who have decided to rid ...  Read the complete review

PORN AND LOSTS OF IT! Channel Five should never been given space of British tv! We already have to put up with rubbish from BBC and ITV! All channel 5 so is old films and shows on Lesbians getting there kit off! Channel 5 make you want to pad lock on your childrens tv! It's time to pull the plug on this horrible tv channel! Maybe ...  Read the complete review

It's hard to understand why channel 5 gets such bad press, well no, it's not that hard. But whats so good about channel 5 is that like the bbc and itv, it doesn't try to cater for everyone and basically all you do is spend ur time flicking between channels. If I had the choice of only one channel it would be this ...  Read the complete review

Ok ppl you want MY opinion here it is. My other one was to voice the opinion of the public with whom i am wel acquainted with. But now I have had enough of all your low ratings and decided to say I am so glad channel 5 exists. If it was not for this channel I would not have had the privilage of watching sunset beach. It was the most ...  Read the complete review

Whether you're thinking of the incredible Monty Python "Spam" song or the equally great Skol adverts, you've not got a better way of getting something over than repeating it 4 times in capital letters! Channel 5 is, was, and shall be for all time, thought of as the dirty-film and tacky docusoaps (I caught the ...  Read the complete review

Well is it, I don’t know it could be. The point I am trying to make is that nobody watches channel 5 anymore, I don’t think I have watched a program on channel 5 in about 4 years and even then I only watched because I was at a sleepover with teenaged boys who were high on caffeine I will leave what we watched up to your ...  Read the complete review

Have you noticed how the channels have just got worse and worse? When Channel 5 was unleashed in 1997, this was really the last straw. I really hoped we would get a hugely brilliant channel, with top movies and dramas like the advertising promised us. Obviosuly, the first fault we picked up on was the very poor reception ...  Read the complete review

Here's what i think of channel 5: CHILDRENS ENTERTAINMENT Not much on, and when something for children is on- it is some pathetic cartoon. SOAPS Lets see theres FAMILY AFFAIRS which is one of the worst soaps in the UK (due to poor acting) and at one stage Channel 5 were airing American soaps such as THE BOLD AND ...  Read the complete review

That is how one of the bosses of the channel described it. Does it have these three qualities; does it have any good qualities? Well let’s see… Sex - by this he probably means the usual Friday night soft-porn flick; or the soft porn series ‘Red Show Diary’s’. Whatever he means, its hardly sex. ...  Read the complete review

I just had to bring this up channel 5 has to be the worst channel ever on terrestrial TV since it's launch by the spice girls in 1997 it has just totally pissed me off. The reasons to hate the channel 1) Keith chegwin nude in “naked jungle”. (This program sparked a whole ton of complaints) 2) ...  Read the complete review

When channel 5 first came out they promissed lots of top quality movies evry night and great quality shows like Friedns, and the Simpsons, but instead they show things like, Oprah, Family Affairs, Bodies of evidence, Home and away, arrest and trial. Not to mention the top quality film they promised, The Last Don 2, and they said there ...  Read the complete review