Wait…. I thought it was already going by that name
About 10-15 years from now they’ll simplify it even more to *[bangs head on the table 5 times]*
Has the world gone mad?!
I never understand why companies do this – especially the renaming of their streaming service to just 5.
Nobody’s going to use the new name and they’re just going to confuse people looking for the wrong name. Does anybody refer to 4oD as anything but 4oD?
And that’s before we get to the search problems of just being called 5. So if I want to watch or get information about one of their shows (I don’t actually know any Channel 5 shows) – I go to Google and I search for 5? How’s that going to go? Probably not with me finding Channel 5 very quickly or easily…
I use Pluto – glad that’s not being merged into My5
Is this just remind people they exist?
Or “The Police Interceptors Channel”
Well, it’s been Channel 5 and Five, so I suppose they had to cover all the bases. If they’re still around in 2034 I assume it’ll be rebranded again to Channel Five
NSYNC would have been a much better name
I can’t think of the last time I watched 5.
I think it was when Suggs had that karaoke thing and Xena/Hercules was on.
I bet the “breaking news” notification guy at the BBC was desperate to send this out
Wait till they try V and confuse everybody
Should be called Worlds most extreme bargain loving air fryers in the sun.
_EVERYBODY GET UP, SINGIN’_
_ONE!_
_TWO!_
_THREE!_
_FOUR!_
_FIVE WILL MAKE YOU change the channel because there’s only so many times you can see police interceptors, scummy landlords and embarrassing moments in 90’s telly before it gets dull._
Has Musk bought it 🤔?
Groundbreaking.
Literally just “5”? 5 what? Fingers? Days of the week? This trend of one-letter names is really rendering everything incredibly shallow and obscure. How the fuck am I supposed to identify something written on a single computer key? And I’m calling at some point Sky are going to rebrand to “S”. I wouldn’t put it past them.
Next it’ll be “V”
Different name, same shite content.
‘5X’ if Elon gets involved.
So fast and furious of them
Channel 5
5
Channel 5 returns
Five
What will be next!
I can still remember when someone (I know not whom) at Radio 1 thought it would be cool and happenin’ to re-brand the station as ‘One FM’. Thankfully that didn’t last long.
Should’ve renamed to ‘boring shite’ it’s very representative of their brand.
I, for one, will always fondly remember the day Channel 5 launched. It was an absolutely seminal moment of my childhood, the previously untouched fifth button on the remote finally getting in on the action. Kids these days will never know the thrill of an instant 25% increase in televisual possibilities, only to have the joy turn to ashes in your mouth when Family Affairs starts.
I can’t imagine i’d refer to it as anything other than Channel 5. Same as Channel 4, BBC1 and the Granada channel
Hmmm, I wonder if this is related to Rio Ferdinand ditching his “vibe with five” name of his you tube channel.
This is an outrage
Next rebranding to “V” in 2033
I will never recover.
That was 3 million well spent on consultants.
…wasn’t it already rebranded 5, years ago ???
Oh great, how the hell am I going to remember that?!
In th next 15 years they will change the name to 🖐️
Just wait til you hear what they’re calling Monkey Pox these days…
Not as bad as U.
UKTV have done a similar thing recently where they’ve changed the name of their catch up service from UKTV Play to U and have changed their channels so that they have the letter U and an ‘&’ symbol so instead of Dave, Drama, W and Yesterday they’re now called U&Dave, U&Drama, U&W and U&Yesterday which seems pretty much pointless as who’s going to call those channels by that name. They will always be Dave, Drama, W and Yesterday to me. And the Channel 4 Catch Up service changed its name last year as well from All4 to Channel 4 which is also pretty pointless as well. And now Channel 5 is changing the name of their catch up service from My5 to 5.
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I wonder how much they paid for that genius idea.
Wait…. I thought it was already going by that name
About 10-15 years from now they’ll simplify it even more to *[bangs head on the table 5 times]*
Has the world gone mad?!
I never understand why companies do this – especially the renaming of their streaming service to just 5.
Nobody’s going to use the new name and they’re just going to confuse people looking for the wrong name. Does anybody refer to 4oD as anything but 4oD?
And that’s before we get to the search problems of just being called 5. So if I want to watch or get information about one of their shows (I don’t actually know any Channel 5 shows) – I go to Google and I search for 5? How’s that going to go? Probably not with me finding Channel 5 very quickly or easily…
I use Pluto – glad that’s not being merged into My5
Is this just remind people they exist?
Or “The Police Interceptors Channel”
Well, it’s been Channel 5 and Five, so I suppose they had to cover all the bases. If they’re still around in 2034 I assume it’ll be rebranded again to Channel Five
NSYNC would have been a much better name
I can’t think of the last time I watched 5.
I think it was when Suggs had that karaoke thing and Xena/Hercules was on.
I bet the “breaking news” notification guy at the BBC was desperate to send this out
Wait till they try V and confuse everybody
Should be called Worlds most extreme bargain loving air fryers in the sun.
_EVERYBODY GET UP, SINGIN’_
_ONE!_
_TWO!_
_THREE!_
_FOUR!_
_FIVE WILL MAKE YOU change the channel because there’s only so many times you can see police interceptors, scummy landlords and embarrassing moments in 90’s telly before it gets dull._
Has Musk bought it 🤔?
Groundbreaking.
Literally just “5”? 5 what? Fingers? Days of the week? This trend of one-letter names is really rendering everything incredibly shallow and obscure. How the fuck am I supposed to identify something written on a single computer key? And I’m calling at some point Sky are going to rebrand to “S”. I wouldn’t put it past them.
Next it’ll be “V”
Different name, same shite content.
‘5X’ if Elon gets involved.
So fast and furious of them
Channel 5
5
Channel 5 returns
Five
What will be next!
I can still remember when someone (I know not whom) at Radio 1 thought it would be cool and happenin’ to re-brand the station as ‘One FM’. Thankfully that didn’t last long.
Should’ve renamed to ‘boring shite’ it’s very representative of their brand.
I, for one, will always fondly remember the day Channel 5 launched. It was an absolutely seminal moment of my childhood, the previously untouched fifth button on the remote finally getting in on the action. Kids these days will never know the thrill of an instant 25% increase in televisual possibilities, only to have the joy turn to ashes in your mouth when Family Affairs starts.
I can’t imagine i’d refer to it as anything other than Channel 5. Same as Channel 4, BBC1 and the Granada channel
Hmmm, I wonder if this is related to Rio Ferdinand ditching his “vibe with five” name of his you tube channel.
This is an outrage
Next rebranding to “V” in 2033
I will never recover.
That was 3 million well spent on consultants.
…wasn’t it already rebranded 5, years ago ???
Oh great, how the hell am I going to remember that?!
In th next 15 years they will change the name to 🖐️
Just wait til you hear what they’re calling Monkey Pox these days…
Not as bad as U.
UKTV have done a similar thing recently where they’ve changed the name of their catch up service from UKTV Play to U and have changed their channels so that they have the letter U and an ‘&’ symbol so instead of Dave, Drama, W and Yesterday they’re now called U&Dave, U&Drama, U&W and U&Yesterday which seems pretty much pointless as who’s going to call those channels by that name. They will always be Dave, Drama, W and Yesterday to me.
And the Channel 4 Catch Up service changed its name last year as well from All4 to Channel 4 which is also pretty pointless as well. And now Channel 5 is changing the name of their catch up service from My5 to 5.