Eleven years ago today,
to the very day
, Channel 5 (as it was then called) lauched. Yes that's absolutely correct, it launched on Sunday 30 March 1997.
Last year they celebrated their tenth birthday, and marked the occasion with a few tenth annivarsary programmes and "five is ten" idents. Will they mark their eleventh birthday today though? Does anyone know?
They are showing The Magnificent Seven at 5:35pm. Without making any attempt to check further, I can only assume this is a documentary about Channel 5 and the word 'Seven' is a mis-print and should have course be 'five'.
They are showing The Magnificent Seven at 5:35pm. Without making any attempt to check further, I can only assume this is a documentary about Channel 5 and the word 'Seven' is a mis-print and http://www.rp-network.com/tvforum/uploads/so.jpg course be 'five'.
Channel 5 has been steadily depreciating in quality ever since it was launched, ten years, three hundred and sixty-four days, twenty-three hours and forty minutes ago. Now all it shows is
CSI
and a repackaging of the
Kama Sutra
every evening.
Oh, and what is it with
every
factual programming presenter having to be young and attractive (see Natasha Kaplinsky, Jeremy Edwards, Suzi Perry, Donal McIntyre)? Why not let Dr. David Starkey loose on C5? It'd certainly make it more entertaining. I seem to remember that when they did a documentary presented by Dr Stephen Hawking, most of the scientific explanation was dumbed down and Dr Hawking's speech synthesiser seemed to become a novelty centrepiece. And that was several years ago: if it was now, I would imagine it would be even worse.
I seriously think C5 has something to worry about, unless they stop treating themselves as a digital channel and remember that they are one of the 'big five'. If it doesn't, then it will practically fall into the slush pile of DTT channels, and we won't bother celebrating its 15th birthday.
They are showing The Magnificent Seven at 5:35pm. Without making any attempt to check further, I can only assume this is a documentary about Channel 5 and the word 'Seven' is a mis-print and http://www.rp-network.com/tvforum/uploads/so.jpg course be 'five'.
You should
,
of course, have realised that
The Magnificent Seven
is a film. A Western film, to be precise.
And Five's longest-continual running show is back tonight.
MLB on Five returns for its 12th season of live baseball tonight, with Jonny Gould; who since Kirsty Young left, has been Five's longest serving personality.
They are showing The Magnificent Seven at 5:35pm. Without making any attempt to check further, I can only assume this is a documentary about Channel 5 and the word 'Seven' is a mis-print and http://www.rp-network.com/tvforum/uploads/so.jpg course be 'five'.
May I suggest that you could have, of course, used commas!
Bring Me The Head of Light Entertainment was a v good quiz show in the early days. They should try to revive that. I agree with the comments about deterioration in five's output.
With the exception of the Thursday house progs and The Gadget Show, there's rarely anything good and homegrown to watch.
