My5 - Channel 5 Ratings and Reviews

This has got to be the worst TV app ever, every time there’s an ad break you are bombarded with 6 adverts then if you hit the wrong button you’ve got to go through it all again. Today I had the thrill of having 2 adverts being shown simultaneously....12 adverts....great! Then after all of that they showed a couple of ads up coming programs before I realised it wasn’t the episode I wanted being showed. So then you go through the whole procedure again. Please allow us to linking in the the episode before the ads. But I guess it’s because channel 5 is just greedy for advertising money.
DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS CHANNEL

Review 3 Jun 2022: The good news is that this app allows one to see (some) past programmes that one missed first time round. The bad news is that the app used to be better, and used to host programmes from minority networks, but has now discontinued these. It is also worse technically making for a frustrating user experience. Programme info cannot be viewed in full (oversight by programmers) screen overlays stay too long and cannot be hastened to depart, and if you try you’ll get another 5 minute compulsory advertisement break thrown in. If you are watching a series it does not automatically move on to the next, you have to search through and select the next one from memory. In short poor, as these apps go. Yes there are advert breaks, but My5 have to make money - that’s ok with me but extra adds for pressing the wrong button just pisses me off.

I was assuming that this program would have some sound information about dogs. What a lot of trash aromatherapy for dogs what a good laugh, dogs enjoy smelling other dogs butts. Obviously not fragrance that is Alien for dogs poor Betty I feel bad that a obviously anxious dog needs were made worse by a idiot who obviously knows nothing of dogs where do you find these people don’t you check there animal qualifications before you let them near animals. You should have showed her mum being taught how to treat Betty so the problem is solved for both. Not the total rubbish that was tried.
Birthday party I have party’s for my dogs but they are controlled.
Doga impulse control rubbish they were tormenting the dogs with treats without commands.
Also you never take a new dog into a field full of strange dogs at once. That is just common sense.
Hope this review helps genuine animal lovers that already have common sense not to watch this trash.

First it forces you to watch ads...6 of them, which is okay. But if I’m casting to my TV, why does it prevent you from doing other things with your phone in the meantime?! When I tried to switch to other apps to burn time while the ads played on TV, it froze the ads. Terrestrial TV does not force ads down my throat. I can do other stuff whilst they play, soo why do I need to be force fed them with this app?

Then after casting the ads to my TV, it then asked for my permission to access my Apple TV (which it has already used to cast the ads in anyway). After granting permission, the app freezes and does not load the programme I wanted to watch.

When I try to start watching the programme again, it tries to make me watch another 6 ads. I closed it down, and deleted the app.

My5 need to get their UX sorted out if they want customers. I get your funded by ads but don’t force users to watch them. Users should be allowed to multi task like they can with terrestrial TV. Then at least make your your app actually works and load the programme. The fact this was able to work perfectly to play ads but failed when it came to playing the programme shows that your focus is on ad revenue and not customer satisfaction through the content you’re delivering.

Whoever QA’d this app before release should get a new job.

Please Please Please do something about your app!?!?!? I love the programmes you show on Channel 5, but the app doesn't work. It is always freezing or kicking you out of programmes when trying to get into them. Why don't you hire some computer whiz kid to sort out all of your troubles. There are so many clever people out there looking for jobs! It's obvious you have a space in your team to take on someone who knows how to sort it all out!!!! You are loosing the fight to stay at the top where you should be because of this rubbish app. This has been too long we have all been waiting for you to rectify the problems!!!

Please help!!! Programs stop, sound stops, continual buffering, deleting & reinstalling app doesn’t help!!! Please just when it got better, it’s now worse than ever again. Haven’t been able to watch any programmes since a week past Wednesday 😡😢. Please help!

I just don’t understand why you have teased us with the promise of being able to watch the new rebooted version of quantum leap 2022 and then without without any rhythm or reason whatsoever have decided within days of it being made available taken away the first 8 episodes of season one . I don’t get it why would you want to do that. I looked forward to watching it having been a fan of the original series but now I can’t because it doesn’t make sense to watch it from mid way through does it. I don’t understand why you can’t just actually watch it on the television properly either and not just through my5 it’s ridiculous. AND ANOTHER THING I don’t know what the heck is going on with the app but it’s just not working properly anymore and even though I have deleted it and reinstalled it several times I still can’t get it back to work on my iPhone despite the fact that I have the correct updated software it now requires. I didn’t have any problems with it before today. Maybe I need to find another channel to watch because I’m fed up with all the hassle of it all 😏


OH COME ON ARE YOU SERIOUS OR WHAT

NOW THE APP WILL NOT WORK PROPERLY AT IT’S RIDICULOUS 😡🤬

Will happily load and make you watch 8 adverts before a program, however, as soon as the adverts are over it conveniently is unable to load the main program. Closing the app and re-booting it doesn’t let you skip the ads that you just wasted 4 minutes of your life on, when re-opening the program; it forces you to waste another 4 minutes watching them all over again.

This is quite obviously an advert scam as they get people to watch an advert multiple times and thus charge more money towards the advertisers; I refuse to believe that a large corporation has bugs or oversights as glaring as this in their app.

I am well aware that this review will not change the world but hopefully one or two people choose to not download this app and fall victim to having their valuable time scammed from them.

I appreciate that Channel 5 need to make money, and ordinarily have no issue with advertising.

However, I am currently in the middle of a thirteen ad long intermission in the middle of “All Creatures Great and Small”. This intermission does give me the opportunity to right a snarky review of the app but is otherwise of no benefit to anyone since I’ve no idea what was advertised.

Other commercial tv providers allow me to pay them money to avoid ads: I don’t see ads when using ITVx or Four. Genuinely, I’m sure that three or four quid a month would give Five more money than they get from me watching the tales of North Yorkshire veterinaries.

The app works great. Fantastic picture quality and no technical issues on WiFi or mobile network.

But it’s saturated with ads. Two and half minutes of ads before you even can start watching whatever you want to watch, that’s taking the mickey out of us users. I DO understand that advertisement is a income but FIVE ad’s before you even start watching is absolutely ridiculous and laughable and then in the middle of watching a program another two and a half minute of watching ads.

Now I remember why I stopped using this and I WOULDN’T recommend ANYONE use this app. Two stars is generous because overall the app works well and it’s easy to navigate. Channel 5, you really need to do better.

This app is unbearable. There are some decent programs available however the user experience is diabolical. Every time an advert break comes on the app freezes, requiring you to quit the program, disconnect from Apple TV, open the app again, locate the program you were watching, fast forward to where you were, reconnect to Apple TV, watch the same adverts again and then finally watch the next segment, until the next advert break where you have to start the frustrating experience again. I was trying to watch a program with my family, and we had to keep watching a Tampax advert over and over again every time we restarted the app. The slogan was ‘get it up there girls’, which was embarrassing enough the first time, but after several restarts it was unbearable. Sort this out!!!