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May 2026

  • Scotland's first minister John Swinney with the Commonwealth Games mascot Finnie

    Channel 5 secures Commonwealth Games highlights deal as BBC ends 72-year run

    Channel 5 will show a daily highlights programme from this summer’s Commonwealth Games, with the BBC opting not to broadcast any coverage

April 2026

  • Claudia–Liza Vanderpuije

    TV presenter withdraws claims against Dan Walker after ‘mutual agreement’ with Channel 5

  • Huw Edwards

    Huw Edwards vows to ‘challenge misleading claims’ in Channel 5 drama

March 2026

  • Huw Edwards leaving Westminster magistrates court.

    Huw Edwards says Channel 5 drama ‘hardly likely to convey reality’

  • Martin Clunes as Huw Edwards and Osian Morgan as ‘Ryan’ in Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards

    Channel 5 defends Huw Edwards drama and says it gives voice to alleged victim

January 2026

  • a remote control points at a TV with the Freeview logo

    As most TV viewers tune in via broadband, will 2034 signal the death of Freeview?

    The aerial-accessed service has a fast-dwindling audience but when exactly to switch the platform off is proving highly divisive
  • David Attenborough with mountain gorillas, while filming of Life on Earth in Rwanda, 1979.

    From Attenborough’s gorilla mayhem to TV’s first gay kiss: the 100 biggest moments from a century of television

    The moon landing! Royal weddings! Janet Jackson’s $550,000 nipple! As television turns 100, we charts its journey from terrifyingly dangerous to the thing that unites us
  • Martin Clunes as Huw Edwards in Power: the Downfall of Huw Edwards.

    Huw Edwards’s downfall to be dramatised in two-part Channel 5 series

    Martin Clunes will play former BBC anchor in drama that depicts Edwards’s alleged grooming of a teenager

November 2025

  • F1 Dec 2007 - 06 Jul 2002Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sutton Motorsports/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock (15697752ci) Fifth Gear presenter Quentin Wilson (GBR) with a car autographed by the guests to the Drivers Ball..British Grand Prix, Silverstone, England, 5 July 2002..DIGITAL IMAGE. F1 Dec 2007 - 06 Jul 2002

    Quentin Willson obituary

    Motoring journalist and presenter of the BBC’s Top Gear and Channel 5’s Fifth Gear who became an advocate of electric cars

October 2025

  • Ewen Bremner behind Andrew Lincoln in a wood at night with a fire blazingCOLDWATER EPISODE 1 Pictured: EWEN BREMNER as Tommy,EVE MYLES as Rebecca,ANDREW LINCOLN as John and INDIRA VARMA as Fiona. This photograph is (C) SISTER PICTURES and can only be reproduced for editorial purposes directly in connection with the programme or event mentioned above, or ITV plc. This photograph must not be manipulated [excluding basic cropping] in a manner which alters the visual appearance of the person photographed deemed detrimental or inappropriate by ITV plc Picture Desk. This photograph must not be syndicated to any other company, publication or website, or permanently archived, without the express written permission of ITV Picture Desk. Full Terms and conditions are available on the website www.itv.com/presscentre/itvpictures/terms Picture Publicity Contact: Patrick.smith@itv.com

    ‘It was a binding experience’: TV producers mourn decline of hot 9pm slot

    UK broadcasters used to rely on big audiences at 9pm, but as viewing habits change, figures are falling below the 1m mark

August 2025

  • Alison Steadman, Roger Sloman and Anthony O'Donnell in Nuts in May

    The Guardian view on bringing back Play for Today: a reboot that feels right for the times

  • Alison Steadman and Tim Stern smiling as they sit on an armchair in Abigail's Party

    Channel 5 revives BBC’s Play for Today to ‘help shape future of British drama’

April 2025

  • Video screengrab showing Jeremy Vine cycling through the West End of London wearing fluorescent yellow gloves and a blue helmet

    Jeremy Vine ‘stopping cycling videos’ due to abuse he receives

  • The Fifa Club World Cup trophy on display before Borussia Dortmund’s game against Borussia Mönchengladbach on Sunday.

    Club World Cup to be broadcast live on Channel 5 in UK after Dazn deal

February 2025

  • Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis in Wolf Hall.

    BBC and ITV slash big-budget TV spend as US streamers pour money into UK

    Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky also among UK broadcasters making cuts as Netflix, Disney and Amazon pile on pressure

November 2024

  • Gregg Wallace outside ITV Studios wearing a flatcap and carrying his own bag

    Gregg Wallace accused of ‘highly inappropriate’ behaviour while filming

  • Sky logo at company headquarters in Isleworth, west London, as seen in March 2017.

    Sky faces bill for hundreds of millions after advertising blunder

September 2024

  • Phillip Schofield on Cast Away.

    Phillip Schofield says he was fired from ITV ‘for his brother’s crime’

    On Cast Away, the former presenter says he was let go due to the bad press generated by his sibling’s child sex offences
  • Actors in The Hardacres in period costume

    Creators of new drama The Hardacres decry lack of working-class TV

    Dominant demographic among viewers ‘don’t feel like they are represented on screen’, say Amy Roberts and Loren McLaughlin
  • Phillip Schofield in Cast Away

    Phillip Schofield: ‘utter betrayal’ made me never want to be a presenter again

    In first TV appearance since leaving This Morning, Schofield says he was ‘chucked under a bus’ by colleagues
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