Five US’s “quality” schedule, Freeview’s “simplicity”

Somebody calling themselves John (but where are the credentials, huh?) left a comment on my post about Channel Five’s new channels:

It is a lie that is always perpertrated by snobs like this that all U.S. TV is crap. There is SO MUCH US TV, that there is plenty of good TV, you just have to search for it.

He can’t have noticed that my post wasn’t complaining about US television (I couldn’t care much for most television whether it’s British, American or anything), but about Five US’s roster of programmes.

Five US’s schedule has been revealed. The opening night is impressive — lots of CSI. But you know they’re only pulling out the big guns because it’s the first night. Here is Five US’s prime time schedule on its second day:

16.00 Joey — a shit spinoff of a shit comedy, nobody admits to watching this
17.00 Happy Days — 30 year old repeat
18.00 Pimp My Ride — stinky MTV carrion
19.00 2006 X Games — interesting, but this is usually on at about 4am on Channel Five
20.00 FILM: Big Daddy — Big Daddy isn’t actually bad, but this is just an easy way to fill a two hour gap
22.00 Combover — huh?
23.00 The Art of Competitive EatingWTF

The new channels has meant another shake-up of the Freeview EPG. Some of TopUpTV’s channels have gone to make way for the new channels. Surely the sensible thing to do would have been to get Five US and Five Life to fill those gaps? Instead, they’ve shoved about half a dozen channels up the EPG.

  • ITV4 — used to be LCN 30, now 28
  • Film4 — was 31, now 29
  • E4+1 — was 32, now 30 (I can tell this is going to be the most annoying for me)
  • ITV Play — was 35, now 31
  • Quiz Call — was 36, now 32
  • Five US — new channel 35
  • Five Live — new channel 36

Why shuffle five channels along when they could just have slotted in Five US and Five Life in LCN 28 and 29? This is just going to cause confusion, particularly given that Film4 has only just begun to feel at home on LCN 31. Freeview is meant to be simple.

1 comment

  1. U are blind faced dick, how can u say friends is shit? :S:S:S:S ur an idiot and anybody can see that….such a dumbasss…im sorry but that comment has just invalidated the rest of ur post…stop posting dumbass nobody cares!