[James]

There's a bit in the Broadcast article about C5 which says the channel will have a 'marginally' higher budget:

.....Viacom, which also operates MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon, will rebrand C5 by the end of 2015 after sealing its £463m takeover in October last year.

It will refresh the on-air look of the channel and has appointed agency Joint London to oversee the campaign. It is not clear if the channel’s name will change....

.....“We will refresh the C5 look later [this year] and also reshape the content output, bringing in a broader range of programming that isn’t traditionally thought of as C5,” said David Lynn, president of Viacom International Media Networks UK, Australia and Central and Eastern Europe.

Viacom also plans to “boost” C5’s programming output, with Frow being given “marginally” more than last year’s £200m budget to move into scripted comedy and drama and deliver campaigning documentaries.

Some of that budget will be spent on more Big Brother. Broadcast can reveal that C5 has formally extended its deal with Endemol Shine UK for another three years, until at least the end of 2018.....

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/v...084354.article