Channel 5 Parties For A Rosy-Fingered Dawn

CHANNEL 5 is front-page news on the Daily Star, owner of, er, channel 5. News is that Channel 5 is brilliant and “SET TO THRIVE”. So. To the party at Northern & Shell’s London offices, with Barbara Windsor (a new show on the channel for post-EastEnders Babs?), Peter Andre looking clean and tidy, Matthew Wright, Vanessa Feltz (both looking as if they are gazing into an eclipse), Melinda Messenger, gadget head Suzi Perry, a recovered Jim Rosenthal, the ubiquitous Sinitta and Richard Desmond.

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And though we like to be cynical about such things, the option of having a decent fifth chancel that pumps up a free-to-air alternatives to BBC bias, crappy ITV dramas and Channel Four fantasies about famous people being tortured is all to the good…

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Barbara Windsor arrives at a dinner to celebrate Northern & Shell's purchase of Channel 5, at their head offices in central London.

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Posted: 20th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio Comment | TrackBack | Permalink