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5Select (stylised as 5SELECT) is a British free-to-air television channel which features documentaries, arts, dramas, comedies and Channel 5 original content. 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. 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, but based at practices in Thurso and Wick)
*''1,000 Years of History'' (including episodes on China and Scotland)
*''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, London Transport 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'')
*''Thirties in Colour: Countdown to War'' (with the channel also broadcasting 2009 series ''World War II in Colour'' in a similar timeslot, once the three episodes had been shown)
*''Walking Victorian Britain'' (with Onyeka Nubia)
*''Walking Wartime Britain'' (presented by former Royal Marine Arthur Williams)
*''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'')
*''A Country Life for Half the Price with Kate Humble''
*''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)
*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'')
*'' Neighbours''
*''101 Events That Made the 20th Century''
*''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)
*''Wonderful Wales with Michael Ball''
*'' 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''

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English-language television stations in the United Kingdom
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Television channels in the United Kingdom