5Star (stylized as 5STAR) is a British

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television channel owned by

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and a sister channel of Channel 5. It originally launched as the female-orientated Five Life on 15 October 2006, and was relaunched as Fiver on 28 April 2008 with a revised version of the same concept. The channel later re-branded as 5star on 7 March 2011, and later to its current name on 11 February 2016. The network focuses on documentaries, comedy and drama, with a range of original content such as '' Rich Kids Go Skint'' and ''Young, Dumb & Banged Up in the Sun'', along with some American and Australian imports.

History

2006–08: Five Life

The channel was intended to be a female-orientated channel with an emphasis on lifestyle programming. Channel 5 announced that programming on launch would include ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Windfall'', ''

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'', and a weekday double-bill of the chat show '' Trisha Goddard''. On 16 October 2006, a day following the channel's launch, Australian soap opera ''

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'' began airing from episode 4212 (Season 19, Episode 112). New episodes are shown Monday to Friday in a 'First Look' screening with episodes following the Channel 5 airing. Repeats of popular female-skewing dramas, both nationally and internationally produced, were soon acquired. Following the channel's launch, a time-shift version of the channel was launched in summer 2007.

2008–11: Fiver

Five Life was repositioned and relaunched as Fiver in April 28, 2008 while still targeting female audiences, the channel was re-positioned with a "younger, faster, louder" concept, meant to compete with

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. On-air presentation reflected this shift with a "cursor" motif, typing out words reflecting programs and current events.

2011–16: 5star

In 2011, the channel was re-launched again, as 5star (stylized as 5★ or 5*, pronounced "Five Star"). The new brand focused on a "fun-loving" concept, with initial acquisitions including '' $#*! My Dad Says'', '' Better with You'' and '' Parenthood''. On 11 April 2011, 5star reduced its broadcast hours to 13:00 to 00:00, replacing the hours withdrawn with more teleshopping. When some of these new programs failed to make much of an impact in the channel's ratings, several were dropped and replaced by new locally produced and acquired programming. These included the American series ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. In 2012, in consort with C5's acquisition of the series, 5star began airing the '' Big Brother'' companion show '' Big Brother: Live from the House'', which aired 60 minutes of live feed following every eviction show. In 2013, after ''Live from the House'' set ratings records for the channel, the programme was expanded to two hours nightly. However, ratings were at a share below that of the channel's average, with just 70,000 watching the first live feeds. Subsequently, the live feeds were shut down and the spin-off show last aired in June 2013. Also in 2013, ''

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'' moved to 5star from

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. Continuing the channel's venture into reality based programming, ''

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'' was acquired from Ireland's TV3 and this was soon joined by ''

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'', '' World's Worst Tenants'' and '' Top 20 Funniest'' in 2014. The 5star schedule included a variety of programming, including the aforementioned reality series, as well as the first-run rights to ''

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'', the second-run rights to American series ''

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'', '' Under the Dome'' and '' The Walking Dead'', and Australian soap operas ''Home & Away'' and ''

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''. Popular documentary series shared with C5 air throughout the daytime and primetime hours, such as ''

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''. The time-shift version of the channel was shut down on 3 February 2014 and replaced by C5 +24. The channel returned later, launching on Freesat on 16 September 2014 and Sky in the UK and Ireland on 4 November 2014, replacing BET +1 on the platform. The addition of the channel in Ireland was an error, thus it was removed on 6 November 2014. On 11 February 2016, as part of an overall re-branding of Channel 5's networks following their acquisition by

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, the channel was re-branded as 5Star.

2016 to date: 5Star

After initially being positioned as a younger skewing channel (in a manner similar to E4), 5Star has dropped a lot of its drama and comedy programmes from the schedules and replaced them with blocks of reality TV programming with medical shows such as ''Skin A&E'', ''999: Critical Condition'' and ''Don't Tell The Doctor'' showing on Thursday nights in September 2021, and nights devoted to crime and cleaning showing on other days. The channel still had a number of drama shows listed in its schedules for 2021 with imports such as '' Departure'' and '' Wentworth: The Final Sentence'' broadcast after the watershed and its Australian soaps still broadcast in an hour block from 6pm (though the 3pm repeat has been replaced by episodes of ''

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'' from

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). Also 5Star picked up the free-to-air television rights of streaming series '' The Act'' (from StarzPlay via Amazon) which increased its viewing figures on 5Star with each episode broadcast, and ''

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'' (also available on Netflix). Australian soap opera ''Home & Away'' is a programme which has episodes debuting on the channel before being repeated on Channel 5, with other channel premieres including episodes of ''Killer at the Crime Scene'' and ''The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door'', as well as a number of romcom films shown at lunchtime. 5Star have usually decided to schedule feature films each Friday, Saturday and Sunday night, with the whole Saturday daytime schedule usually given over to family films. However, the quality of some of the films broadcast by 5Star has been picked up by ''Kermode and Mayo's Film Review'' on BBC Radio 5 Live, who have nominated many titles due to be broadcast on the channel, for their 'TV Movie So Bad it's Bad' feature on the show. On 20 October 2021, their scheduled ''Love at Lunchtime'' TV movie premiere slot was discontinued and replaced by back-to-back repeats of various emergency services documentaries with episodes 6 and 7 of ''Traffic Cops'' replacing the already announced premiere of ''Love's Last Resort'' on that date. Programmes debuting new episodes on the channel in November 2021 included ''Filthy House SOS'' and ''Oxford Street 24/7'', while ''Nick Knowles' Better Homes'' is a new show from the presenter of Channel 5's ''Big House Clearout'' and ''Our Secret World'' was a new commission produced by Viacom Studios UK, featuring Babestation stars like Atlanta Moreno and Jess West enjoying their leisure time in a reality TV format. New-to-Freeview episodes of drama series '' The Act'' (from American streaming service

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), are debuting weekly on 5Star at 10pm on a Thursday night before being repeated late night on 5Select a few days later. From 8 November 2021, after Ofcom approved an hour-long ''5 News at 5'' on the main channel to fit in ''Eggheads'' at 6.30pm, the early evening repeat of ''Home and Away'' moved to 5Star, with the Australian soap now being broadcast in an hour-long slot from 6pm, with the repeat scheduled back-to-back with the 'first look' episode (though the soap went on its regular winter break on Monday 22 November, with the slot being used for repeats of ''Shoplifters & Scammers: At War with the Law'' and family films, until a new episode of the soap was broadcast on New Year's Eve). On 4 December 2021, 5Star begin repeating season 11 of Judge Judy in the mornings, at the same time that season 17 was seen on CBS Reality and, due to a simulcast agreement, nine Local TV channels in the UK. A month later, on 4 January 2022, more retro programming from the archives of ViacomCBS appeared on the network, when '' Zalman King's Red Shoe Diaries'' (originally broadcast on the American

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channel in 1992 and then on Channel 5) started a repeat run in the United Kingdom on 5Star.

Ratings

The launch of Five Life was at the time ranked as the worst received multichannel launch for a terrestrial broadcaster, only managing to achieve a primetime share of 0.21%. Following the channel's relaunch as Fiver in 2008, the all-day share for the channel has been between 0.5–0.6%. The highest rated series airing on the channel are ''Home & Away'', ''Neighbours'' and the weeknight showings of primetime movies. The highest rating for the channel is held by '' Big Brother: Live from the House'', when it received just over one million viewers and an audience share of over five percent in 2013.

Current programming: 5Star

First–run

* ''The Act'' (2021) * ''Adults Only'' (2020–present) (also repeated on Channel 5 and MTV in 2021, and known under the title ''XXXmas'' over the festive period) * ''Ambulance: Code Red'' (2020–present) * ''Bargain Brits on Benefits'' (2022–present) * ''Cold Case Killers'' (2021–present) * ''Dirty John'' (2021) * ''Don't Tell The Doctor'' (2017–present) * ''Drag Kids'' (also known as ''Kids in Drag: We're Fabulous!'') (2019–present) * ''Entertainment News'' (2020–present) * ''Extreme Hair Wars'' (2018–present) * ''Filthy House SOS'' * ''Get Your Tatts Out: Kavos Ink'' (2017–present) * ''Greatest Ever Movie Blunders'' (2018–present) (this series was re-edited as a new one-off show for broadcast on Channel 5 in November 2021) * ''Greatest Ever TV Blunders'' (2018–present) * ''

'' (16 October 2006 – present) (first look) * ''

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'' (2019–present) * ''Inside The Mind...'' (2021) (a celebrity documentary with Dr Bob Johnson) * ''It's Your Fault I'm Fat'' (2019–present) * ''Killer at the Crime Scene'' (2021–present) * ''Nick Knowles' Better Home'' (2021) * ''Old School For Lazy Kids'' (2019–present) * ''Our Secret World'' (2021) * ''Oxford Street 24/7'' (2021) (a previous series was broadcast first on Channel 5) * ''Plastic Surgery Knifemares'' (2019) * ''Prison Life'' (2018–present) * ''Rich Kids Go Homeless'' (2019–present) * '' Rich Kids Go Skint'' (2018–present) * ''Rich Kids, Skint Holiday'' (2019–present) * ''Secret Admirer'' (2018–present) * ''Sex Pod'' (2016–present) * ''Skin A&E'' (2021–present) * '' Top 20 Funniest'' (2014–present) * ''Tower Block Kids'' (2018–present) * ''The Shocking Truth About Food'' (2019–present) * ''Undercover Twins'' (2019) * ''When Kids Kill'' (2016–present) * ''When Teens Kill'' (2018–present) * ''World's Wildest Holidays'' (2018–present) * ''Young, Dumb & Banged Up in the Sun'' (2018–present)

Second–run

* ''Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun'' * ''Britain's Parking Hell'' (2018–present) * ''Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts'' * ''Fights, Camera, Action!'' (previously shown on Paramount Network) * ''Departure'' (2021) * ''Judge Judy'' (episodes from 2006-2007, that were previously shown on various CBS branded channels) * ''

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'' (episodes from 1992, that were previously shown on Channel 5) * '' Suits'' (season 8 in 2022) * ''Supermarket Wars'' * '' Ten Years Younger In Ten Days'' (2021, Channel 5 series only) * ''The Town the Gypsies Took Over: Appleby Horse Fair'' (repeated on 5Star on 3 January 2022)Radio Times 1–7 January 2022: 5Star listings for Bank Holiday Monday (3 January 2022),: page 71 * ''

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'' (2016–2021) (this drama debuted in the UK as a Channel 5 show before becoming an exclusive-to-5Star title during its fourth season) * ''The World's Most Expensive Hotels''

Former programming: 5Star

First–run

* ''100% Hotter'' (2016–) * ''

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'' (2011–2020) (replaced by ''Entertainment News'') * ''Airport 24/7: Thailand'' (2019–present) (moved to Paramount Network) * ''Baby Ballroom'' (2017–) * ''Baby Faced Mums'' (2016–) * ''Badass Brides'' (2017–) * ''Bad Teen to Ballroom Queen'' (2018–) * ''Britain's Naughtiest Nursery'' (2019–) * ''Celebrity Ghost Hunt'' (2017–) * ''Celeb Road Trip: Lost in Transylvania'' (2018–) * ''

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Second–run

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Floogals ''Floogals'' is a British live-action/animated television series aimed at preschoolers, produced by Nevision Studios, Jellyfish Pictures and Zodiak Kids, with concepts from Absolutely Cuckoo. Sprout (now Universal Kids), a children's TV chann ...

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Malcolm in the Middle ''Malcolm in the Middle'' is an American family television sitcom created by Linwood Boomer for Fox. The series premiered on January 9, 2000, and ended on May 14, 2006, after seven seasons and 151 episodes. The series follows a dysfunctional ...

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Chuck Chuck is a masculine given name or a nickname for Charles or Charlie. It may refer to: People Arts and entertainment * Chuck Alaimo, American saxophonist, leader of the Chuck Alaimo Quartet * Chuck Barris (1929–2017), American TV producer * C ...

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Archer Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In mo ...

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Californication Californication may refer to: *Californication (word) ''Californication'' is a portmanteau of California and fornication, appearing in ''Time'' on May 6, 1966 and written about on August 21, 1972, additionally seen on bumper stickers in the U.S. ...

'' (2011–2012) * ''

'' (2012–2013) * '' The Walking Dead'' (2012–2014) (moved to 5Spike) * ''

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BAMMA BAMMA (British Association of Mixed Martial Arts) was a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United Kingdom. It premiered on June 27, 2009, and was shown on the television channel Bravo. BAMMA events were shown live on ITV4 in the UK and Ire ...

'' (2013–2015) (moved to 5Spike) * ''

'' (2014–2015) (moved to 5Spike) * '' World's Worst Tenants'' (2014-2015) * '' Eye Candy'' (2015) * ''

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Scrubs Scrub(s) may refer to: * Scrub, low shrub and grass characteristic of scrubland * Scrubs (clothing), worn by medical staff * ''Scrubs'' (TV series), an American television program * Scrubs (occupation), also called "scrub tech," "scrub nurse," o ...

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SpongeBob SquarePants ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' (or simply ''SpongeBob'') is an American animated comedy television series created by marine science educator and animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon. It chronicles the adventures of the title character a ...

'' (2017) * ''

South Park ''South Park'' is an American animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone and developed by Brian Graden for Comedy Central. The series revolves around four boys Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormickand th ...

'' (2017) * '' Big Brother: Live from the House'' (2013, 2015) * ''

Big Brother's Bit on the Side This is a complete list of shows about and relating to ''Big Brother UK'' and ''Celebrity Big Brother''. The civilian edition ran from 2000 to 2018 and the celebrity edition ran from 2001 to 2018. ''Big Brother'' ''Big Brother'' was a daily sho ...

'' (2013, 2015) * '' Celebrity Big Brother: Live from the House'' (2013, 2015) * ''

Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side This is a complete list of shows about and relating to ''Big Brother UK'' and ''Celebrity Big Brother''. The civilian edition ran from 2000 to 2018 and the celebrity edition ran from 2001 to 2018. ''Big Brother'' ''Big Brother'' was a daily sho ...

'' (2013, 2015)

Notes

* Several documentary series shared with Channel 5 air on 5Star. However, the titles that come to 5Star change too sporadically to pinpoint what specifically airs first-run or second-run to the channel.

Former logos

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:5Star Channel 5 (British TV channel) English-language television stations in the United Kingdom Television channels and stations established in 2006 Television channels in the United Kingdom 2006 establishments in the United Kingdom