Video production is an in-house affair for most of the UK’s terrestrial broadcasters, with the BBC, the ITV and Channel 4 all combining in-house programme-making with commissions from independent companies. And Channel 5 is now set to adopt this model also, as it launches its own production division.

Having been purchased by Express newspapers owner Richard Desmond two years previously, Channel 5 is apparently now ready to chance its arm at internal video production, having relied exclusively on outsourced content since it first launched 15 years previously.  

The first two self-produced Channel 5 shows have been announced, they being – and you might not want to get too excited as that would be a likely prelude to dire disappointment – a seven-part cookery programme starring Marco Pierre White, and a documentary about ‘80s blockbuster soap opera Dallas presented by John Barrowman.

Okay, so maybe neither sounds like the most thrillingly innovative shows to hit the Great British airwaves, but at least it gives us opportunity to play the Dallas theme. Enjoy!

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