Five Reviews

When a new fifth channel was announced and loads of blockbuster movies and great TV was promised. Unfortunately this dream did not come true. Apart from the occasional good film, Channel 5 is absolute b*llocks, using sh*te erotic films to gain all of its viewing figures. All of the channel’s other programs such as 100% or Family ...  Read the complete review

With all the fuss that Channel 5 got during its lauch you would have been forgiven for thinking that we would get a quality channel to rival the BBC and ITV. How wrong could you be. Channel 5 is just so poor. The only viewers it gets are students who come home late at night drunk and they like all the cheesy programmes. The only ...  Read the complete review

I find myself watching Channel five a lot, possibly even more than any of the other channels ( I don't have satellite). There is one very good reason for this. I am a big fan of Cult television shows. I also like to follow specific actors careers and will watch a film because an actor is in it not because it is good or ...  Read the complete review

Channel 5 is constontly critisised but I really like it. When theres fooball on they have a decent commentator - Jonathon Pearce. There's some good movies on. Theres movies for everyone children and adults. There news has been better than ITV, BBC, etc. as its more relaxed. Kirsty Young was very good - a shame she's left. Channel ...  Read the complete review

Channel 5 is the king of Soaps.But it's soaps are peopled with ham actors and it appears to import most of its programmes from the US. If you are into TV Soaps, what more could you ask for? Choose from Family Affairs, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives,or watch them all. (From July you can add Home and Away to the ...  Read the complete review

I don't like Channel 5 at all. The channel has been up and running for a while now, so why haven't they done anything about the appalling reception that alot of people have to suffer. We can watch Ch5 downstairs in our house via Sky but upstairs the reception stinks. Anyway, the poor reception doesn't bother me as ...  Read the complete review

One of the weirder things I have been involved in was the retuning campaign for C5. This was actually not a bad little earner though it was quite hard work in terms of trudging around the streets and scrabbling around on the floor behind peoples' TV's. I met a lot of really nice people from lonely pensioners only too pleased to ...  Read the complete review

Channel 5 is probably the most complained about channel. Perhaps with good cause. The reception is terrible for some people. Most of their programmes are not what you would describe as quality. They have a lot of repeats. I live in the West Midlands, and have not had any problems with the reception. Obviously their reception ...  Read the complete review

Most of the time I don't watch Channel 5, because of the very poor reception. I am not sure whether only me has this problem, but I know that most of my friends who stay around my area also have the same problem. Yes, Channel 5 does show a lot of movies, however most of them are quite old. In addition, after 10 PM, for those who like ...  Read the complete review

Channel 5 [Background: Britain's fifth terrestrial television channel was launched on March 30th 1997 with a splash of publicity from the Spice Girls. The station has had to work hard to improve its market share in the three and a half years since its launch] Many people have already had their say on Channel 5, and ...  Read the complete review

Channel 5 is probably the worst idea on TV, from the word "go". Remember the "huge" opening show? A quick song from the Spice Girls, a few trailers and that was it. And it didn't ever get better than that. For a start, not everyone in the country can receive Ch5 (maybe this is an advantage!) since they ...  Read the complete review

After getting used to the fact that there was going to be another terrestrial channel available to me, I thought it would be ok, but it seems that Channel 5 has never had the take off it's managers might have been expecting - It consists of over-hyped and under produced cheap soaps that generally contain poor acting combined with bad ...  Read the complete review

Channel 5 came on our screens a couple of years back and apart from being able to screen football matches, it's been a big let down.(Even bigger if you don't like football) The guests on chat shows have often been second rate, and I think the fact they show a lot of sex, does indicate a lack of any real direction. It's almost ...  Read the complete review

Channel 5 might not last. It really is poor. I kept expecting it to take off and improve, like Channel 4 did, but it has got much worse since it started. Showing nudity and soft porn is not the way to get a big regular loyal audience. Maybe they get enough advertising to make a big enough profit, but I think they might just pack in ...  Read the complete review

Channel 5 has some good programmes on especially with Family Affairs. The last time I watched channel five was when they showed live coverage of a Liverpool game, when they played in Ireland, which was in pre-season. I think as a channel it has improved a lot, and the rating must reflect this. I think when everyone has Channel five and ...  Read the complete review

A lot of peole don't like Channel 5 because it doesn't have the kind of built-in audience the other channel have. Let's face it, it's almost 20 years since Channel 4 started up - took a long time for them to get the image they have today, and Channel 5 is starting from scratch. The fact is that Channel 5 ...  Read the complete review

I have read a lot of opinions on C5 which either seem to say that it is good or that it is really bad..... Now if you think about it anyone's opinion on a single channel will be biased depending on their interests and the type of prog. that they like. So some of us like the late-night sport or adult films on C5 whereas ...  Read the complete review

Friends who cannot get Channel 5 complain that they can't get it when I've had it since it was launched. I soon point out that there has only been about three things worth watching since it's launch. Channel 5 has been portrayed as being a trashy, cheap channel obsessed with soft porn and that portrayal is 100% accurate. They ...  Read the complete review

Channel 5 is constontly critisised but I really like it. When theres fooball on they have a decent commentator - Jonathon Pearce. There's some good movies on. Theres movies for everyone children and adults. There news has been better than ITV, BBC, etc. as its more relaxed. Kirsty Young was very good - a shame she's left. Channel ...  Read the complete review

Grainy images, programmes of mind-numbing quality, imports that the poorest cable channels would reject - to get this franchise, someone at Channel 5 clearly had to sell the channel's soul to the Prince of Darkness and we can see how they have to pay the price. Family Affairs? The place where ex-soap stars go to die. The ...  Read the complete review