5Select

Logo used since 2018
Country	United Kingdom
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	5Action 5Star 5USA Channel 5
History
Launched	13 February 2018 (2018-02-13)
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 operated 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 2021, 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