SKY Q customers are set for another big boost to their boxes very soon just days after the launch of a brand new app.
Channel 5 is preparing a major overhaul of its free streaming platform My5 with even more content available to watch.
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Viewers will be able to sample Paramount+ shows on the revamped app[/caption]
My5 finally landed on Sky Q boxes in February, meaning all four streaming services from the main UK broadcasters are now available.
But the app is going through a major revamp on March 12 across all devices.
The biggest change will be a new look making it easier to find your favourite programmes, as well as a single unified name for both streaming and the TV channel: 5.
But the firm is planning to boost the shows you can watch with a “significantly expanded content offer”.
5 is owned by US giant Paramount, which also runs MTV, CBS, Comedy Central and more.
The firm says more premium content from across the wider Paramount family spanning reality, drama, factual, films and true crime shows will be added to the new 5 streaming app.
This also includes kids channel Nickelodeon.
And viewers will have the chance to sample some of the biggest hits from Paramount+ too.
The updated app will be rolling out not only to Sky Q, but also other Sky TV devices Sky Glass and Sky Stream.
And it will appear everywhere else too, such as Virgin Media, smart TVs, iOS, Android and more.
But as with any roll out it may not appear on every day from day one, so you might need to be a bit patient.
My5 has gone through several guises in the past, starting life as Five Download before becoming Demand 5.
The platform grew at its fastest ever rate in 2024, with shock documentary My Wife, My Abuser its number one most watched single title.
Original dramas including All Creatures Great and Small, Blindspot, The Teacher and Ellis have also helped it increase in popularity.
Top Channel 5 dramas
Channel 5 has become a hub for gripping drama, these are some of the best My5 has to offer.
- All Creatures Great and Small – Based on the best-selling novels by real-life vet Alf Wright, the show revolves around a trio of vets working in the Yorkshire Dales in the late 1930s. Eccentric Siegfried Farnon (Samuel West) hires James Herriot (Nicholas Ralph) for his veterinary practice at Skeldale House alongside himself and his younger brother Tristan (Callum Woodhouse). There James settles into his new life and even finds love with local farmer’s daughter Helen (Rachel Shenton).
- The Ex-Wife – New parents Tasha (Céline Buckens) and Jack (Tom Misson) seem to have the perfect life, but the constant presence of Jack’s overly friendly but suspicious ex-wife Jen (Janet Montgomery) puts pressure on the couple. But as the series progresses it becomes less clear who the bad guy really is and how far everyone will go to get the life they think they deserve.
- Heat – EastEnders alum Danny Dyer leads this four-part action thriller, set in Australia, which sees two families holidaying together during bushfire season. But instead of rest and relaxation, secrets and lies start to unravel — and not everyone will make it out alive…
- Lie With Me – Another soap legend jets off to Australia, this time its EastEnders alum Charlie Brooks who takes as a married woman trying to saving her marriage by moving halfway around the world after her husband had an affair. However it’s far from plain sailing, as a young and attractive live-in nanny comes to work with the Fallmont family, and tensions soon build and eventually, someone ends up dead.
- The Drowning – Jill Halfpenny plays Jodie, a woman whose life is shattered following the disappearance of her beloved four-year-old son, Daniel. However, ten years later, the grieving mother thinks she’s finally found her missing child, and embarks on a journey to discover the truth about him. But has she really just found the son she has been missing for so long?
